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How zombies from hell ate animal protection, by Steve Hindi

May 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Zombie groups” raise funds & do little else [Video version is accessible at https://youtu.be/NleYZ6GAC8Y.] Hi folks.  I’m Steve Hindi for SHowing Animals Respect & Kindness. My friends Beth and Merritt Clifton of ANIMALS 24-7 on May 9,  2021 posted an article, Animal labs get free pass on inspections; AV groups mostly don’t notice,  that,  if anyone […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, David Grimm, Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

U.K. “animal sentience” law: “victory” claimed before the fight begins

May 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Recognizing animal sentience is part of an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare” yet to be written into draft bills,  let alone passed by Parliament LONDON, U.K.––A week-plus after the Conservative government of the United Kingdom introduced an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare,”  much of the animal welfare sector worldwide has already declared “victory,”  with the […]

Filed Under: African species, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Cats, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Scotland, United Kingdom, Welfare, Wildlife Tagged With: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Countryside Alliance, Edward Scott, George Eustice, Hunting Act, Merritt Clifton, Theresa May

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

Animal labs get free pass on inspections; AV groups mostly don’t notice

May 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Harvard law student discovers animal lab inspections have been cut short since 2019             CAMBRIDGE,  Massachusetts––The silence from a cage of dead monkeys could scarcely be more deafening. Three business days plus a weekend of apparent near-complete non-response from the animal advocacy community have elapsed since the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Brett Richey, Casey Borch, David Grimm, Justin Goodman, Katherine Meyer, Merritt Clifton

Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing

April 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Two zookeepers,  two activists,  & a publisher Sharon Matola,  Jeremy Mallinson,  Brian Gunn,  Brian Gunn-King,  and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species,  an anti-vivisection activist,  a vegetarian activist of similar name,  and a book publisher,  of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson,  for instance,  were both friends of […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, Jeremy Mallinson, Jon Wynne-Tyson, Lee Durrell, Merritt Clifton, Sharon Matola, Shubrohoto Ghosh

In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz dies at 86

April 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal rights movement pioneer             SAN RAFAEL,  California–– In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz,  DVM,  “died peacefully on March 24th at the age of 86,”  the organization announced via Facebook on April 9,  2021,  after word of Katz’s death had percolated through the animal advocacy community for several days. “Dr. Katz was a trailblazer […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other entertainment topics, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Rodeo, Sanctuaries, Science, Spay/neuter, Spectacles, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Barry McCabe, Bill Dyer, Bob Jenkins, Carol Noon, Doll Stanley, Ed Duvin, Frederick Coulston, Henry Spira, Joe Haptas, John Smale, Lise Giraud, Matt Rossell, Max Redfern, Pat Derby, Paul Seigel, Raymond Giraud, Sheri Speede, Sue Herndon, Terri Oyarzun, Virginia Handley, Will Tuttle

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

Anti-vivisectionism goes to the dogs

March 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,  except in their capacity to raise funds.” WASHINGTON D.C.––Lest there be any doubt that antivivisection advocacy in the 21st century has gone to the dogs,  the White Coat Waste Project,  the Humane Society of the U.S.,  and Stop Animal Exploitation Now in recent […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Ingrid Newkirk, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Natalie Warhit, Sara Amundson

World Federation for Animals seeks “One ring to bind them all”

February 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But progress for animals is not achieved with “rings of power”             BOSTON, Massachusetts––Any resemblance between mild-mannered World Federation for Animals founder Wim DeKok,  a longtime exemplar of peaceful cooperation,  and Sauron,  the vengeful Satanic wizard of the Lord of the Rings trilogy authored by J.R.R. Tolkien,  would be difficult to discover. Yet there is […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Science, The Americas, Uncategorized, USA, World Tagged With: Britta Riis, Henry Salt, Jean-Claude Nouett, Merritt Clifton, Peter Davies, Reineke Hameleers, Sauron, Stephen Coleridge, William J. Piggott, Wim DeKok

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

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