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The Body Shop to go “100% vegan” by 2023––but wasn’t it already?

June 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Expanding the gulf between image and reality is what the cosmetics industry is all about             LONDON, U.K.––Cosmetics and personal care industry media are abuzz with the June 1,  2021 announcement by The Body Shop that every product it offers will be 100% vegan by the end of 2023. Many consumers,  on the other hand,  […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Animal rights & welfare, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Isles, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Anita Roddick, Anna Starostinetskaya, Body Shop, Greenpeace, Jon Entine, LiveKindly, Merritt Clifton, Vegan Society, VegNews

Remembering Rory Young, Glenn Summerlin, & Helen Marston

May 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Soldier,  fundraiser,  & campaigner:  three animal advocates whose work & approaches could scarcely have differed more Rory Young,  49,  founder of the anti-poaching organization Chengeta Wildlife,  was killed on April 26, 2021,  along with Spanish journalist David Beriáin,  44,  and photographer Roberto Fraile,  47,  in an ambush in Burkina Faso attributed to the jihadist militia […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Alternatives, Animal control, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Science, Spay/neuter, USA, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil Rhodes, Chengeta Wildlife, Dennis Orsey, Ken Nixon, Mariet Young, Merritt Clifton, Susan Dragich, Warren Cox, Yakov Alekseyev

China keeps a promise on behalf of animals used in cosmetics testing

March 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Chinese-made beauty & personal care products were already exempt from animal testing requirements.  Now most imported beauty & personal care products are exempt as well. BEIJING––The National Medical Products Administration of China on March 4,  2021 quietly kept an eight-year-old promise on behalf of animals,  announcing that after May 1,  2021 it will no longer […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Feature Home Top, Lab animals, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Science, USA Tagged With: Casey Hall, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mohsina Dodhiya, Sara Amundson, Tiffany Ap

Rabbit sperm donors may be retired from service, but not rats, mice, & birds

January 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

And not most rabbits in laboratory use, either             WASHINGTON D.C.––Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler,  in one of his last actions before leaving office with the Donald Trump presidential administration,  “issued a January 20,  2021 directive instructing the agency to plan for the retirement of the last remaining rabbits in the EPA’s taxpayer-funded […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Andrew Wheeler, Justin Goodman, Karen Budke, Katherine Roe, Larry Carbone, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budke, Natalie Warhit, Sue Leary

Breakthrough may scratch horses from the Iditarod legend

January 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Yes, horses! ANCHORAGE,  Alaska;  Braunschweig,  Germany–– A German immunologist, funded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,  has reportedly made a scientific discovery that may scratch horses from the substance of the Iditarod serum run legend. Horses in the Iditarod Trail Race,  the 938-mile world’s most famous and most controversial dog sled race? Yes, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dog sledding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Science, Sled dog racing, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Ed Rohn, Emil von Behring, Gunnar Kaasen, Kai Kupferschmidt, Leonhard Seppala, Mark Klempner, Merritt Clifton, Michael Hust

Why is Trump EPA chief cutting animal testing while the NRDC defends it?

November 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Natural Resources Defense Council has fought for 50 years to make EPA enforce chemical safety standards WASHINGTON D.C.––How has the Natural Resources Defense Council,  whose emblem is a polar bear,  become the front line of public defense of the animal testing industry? Why is Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler leading the most aggressive effort […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Al Gore, Alix Fano, Andrew Wheeler, Anthony Bellotti, James J. Delaney, Lorraine Twerdok, Merritt Clifton, Sherwin Gardner

Top GMO mouse lab closing; sponsor turns toward non-animal research

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

13-year-old, $38 million facility was British leader             HINXTON, U.K. —The Sanger Institute,  a global leader since 2006 in producing genetically modified mice for biomedical research use,  on May 16,  2019 announced to staff that it will close by 2022,  if not sooner. The impending closure is among the first […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Cloning & xenografts, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis Collins, Holly Else, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Mark M. Davis, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stratton, Mike Turner

“Best science” won’t protect “clean meat” from foes, warns vet of biotech wars

July 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Fear of science & change will be weapons for animal industries trying to save their rump roasts             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––“Do not assume that doing the best science possible will insulate you from criticism,”  AquaBounty Technologies chief executive Ronald L. Stotish warned the New Harvest 2018 conference on “cellular agriculture,”  toward the end of two days […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, France, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bruce Friedrich, Craig Medred, Frankenfish, Johann Georg Faust, Lisa Murkowski, Mary Shelley, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Ronald L. Stotish

“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference

July 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal agribiz is about dead meat;  cellular ag isn’t             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Rigor mortis is the biggest technical problem the meat industry has,  John R. White Company meat scientist Benjy Mikel, Ph.D.,  of Birmingham,  Alabama,  emphasized on July 20,  2018 to the New Harvest 2018 conference on cellular agriculture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Slaughter, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Benjy Mikel, Josh Tetrick, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Paul Mozdziak, Peter Licari, Susan Mayne, Xun Wang

Ban “nut meat”! cries animal agribusiness

May 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal ag biz strategists fear they can’t beat “clean meat” WASHINGTON D.C.––Killing the first edition of the 2018 Farm Bill on May 18,  2018,  the U.S. House of Representatives kicked many a highly politicized can down the street for later consideration,  including the first legislative attempt to determine what sort of can and labeling will […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Alternatives, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Eric Schultze, Isha Datar, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Kelly Servick, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Genovese, Steve Chapman, Tammy Baldwin, Todd Kuiken, Uma Valeti

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