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Why the USDA cannot effectively enforce the Animal Welfare Act

May 31, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service was designed to fail             WASHINGTON D.C.–– Responsible for federal Animal Welfare Act enforcement,  such as it is,  the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA-APHIS] on May 20,  2022 got a public butt-kicking from National Geographic writer Rachel Fobar. The […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Educational use, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Horse & livestock shows, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other animals & science topics, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Uncategorized, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Earl Butz, Envigo, James R. Ebbitt, Joan Arnoldi, Kevin Shea, Merritt Clifton, Rachel Fobar, Tim McVeigh

The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals

December 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw,  Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020,  Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later,  during early October 2020,  the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Central Europe, Disasters, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Gabon, Marine life, Namibia, Netherlands, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other animals & science topics, Science, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Michalska., Bill McGraw, David Krabbenhoft, Paul Schuster, Tomas Antoszczyszyn

Can plant-based “meat” be made to satisfy the Yellow Vests?

December 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Demand for more & cheaper meat underlies strikes over high fuel cost             PARIS,  SAN FRANCISCO–– The “yellow vest” riots ripping apart France,  bringing at least 412 arrests on December 1,  2018 alone,  more than 260 injuries,  half of them in Paris,  and two reported deaths,  are behind the scenes adding a social peace-and-justice imperative […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, France, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Other animals & science topics, Research & testing, Science, Spain, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alshakim Nelson, Giuseppe Scionti, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Josh Tetrick, Mark Post, Merritt Clifton, Nick Giordano, Patrick O. Brown, Tom Levitt, Yaakov Nahmias

St. James Infirmary in Saskatoon: One Health 2018

July 12, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Humane societies played hooky             SASKATOON,  Saskatchewan,  Canada––From the perspective of 1,500 miles and more than two weeks away,  the most remarkable aspect of the recent 5th International One Health Congress in Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan was that even though hundreds of people participated,  many of those who should have been there were not. No one attended […]

Filed Under: Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Other animals & science topics, Poultry, Science Tagged With: Ab Osterhaus, Larry Madoff, Merritt Clifton, William Karesh

Cryptozoologist & taxonomist Colin Groves, “The Ultimate Classifier,” 75

December 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Member of International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975 CANBERRA,  Australia––Colin Groves,  75,  called “The Ultimate Classifier” by the Society of Conservation Biology,  a member of the International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975,  and a cofounder of the anti-pseudoscience organization Canberra Skeptics,  died in Canberra,  Australia,  on November 30,  2017. Born in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, China, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Isles, Kenya, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Other animals & science topics, Poaching & trafficking, Science, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Colin Groves, Katherine Buri, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Richard Leakey, Shirley McGreal

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct & science

December 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon W.W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2009.  344 pages, hardcover.  $27.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Though you may never have heard of either “taxonomy” or  “cladistics,”   the two central concepts in Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s 2009 opus Naming Nature,   it remains a fascinating read for […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Bats, Beliefs, Birds, Book & film reviews, Crustaceans, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Other species, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Snakes, Turtles, Wildlife Tagged With: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Carolus Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Con Slobodchikoff, Merritt Clifton

The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate

September 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  what is bio-xenophobia? (Part I of a four-part series.  See also How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy; How the Twin Towers fell on animals too;  and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) With just six weeks left of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign season,  xenophobia,  the fear of foreigners,  has thus far […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food security, Germany, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Insects, Isles, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Sheep & goats, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Merritt Clifton, Ted Cruz

Are drugs based on pregnant mare’s urine making a comeback?

June 13, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Pfizer Canada increases piss purchases          BRANDON,  Manitoba;  MONTREAL,   Quebec––Pfizer Canada is believed to have contracted with horse farmers for the first increase in pregnant mare’s urine (PMU) purchases since Pfizer took over the Premarin industry by purchasing the previous maker,  Wyeth Inc.,  in 2009. Premarin sales had been in decline since the publication of […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Other animals & science topics, PMU, Religion & philosophy, Science, Slaughter, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Working horses Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pfizer, Premarin, Prempro, Women's Health Initiative, Wyeth-Ayerst

Wildlife contraceptive researcher Jay Kirkpatrick, 75

December 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Developed PZP for use in 85 species          Jay Kirkpatrick,  75,  for more than 40 years a leading developer of contraceptive vaccines for wild horses,  deer,  elk,  and other wildlife,  died on December 16,  2015 in Billings,  Montana “from a brief but serious illness,”  family and friends said. Kirkpatrick,  originally from Bucks County,  Pennsylvania,  spent […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Animal organizations, Behavior, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other animals & science topics, Sanctuaries, Science, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Colleen Bailey, Jay Kirkpatrick, Laura Leigh, Merritt Clifton, Neda Stram, Suzanne Roy

Japanese whalers fined $1 million for contempt of court

November 19, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Were ordered to stop by Australian court in 2008,  & by International Court of Justice in 2014 Sydney,  Australia––Sydney Federal Court Justice Margaret Jagot on November 18,  2015 fined the Japanese whaling firm Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha $1 million Australian for killing whales in Australian waters,  within the Southern Ocean sanctuary recognized by the International Whaling […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Food, Habitat, Japan, Laws, Marine life, Meat issues, Organizations, Other animals & science topics, Pacific rim, Politics, Science, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Margaret Jagot, Merritt Clifton, Mik Markarian, Peter Hammarstedt, Shinzo Abe

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