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

January 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

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 Top, 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

Ape learning experiments? When will humans ever learn?

June 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Whether chimps can talk is much less perplexing than whether humans can care for them adequately after research use BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Few people visit Blue Ridge,  Georgia,  population fewer than 1,500 humans,  plus 78 chimpanzees retired from biomedical research use to the Project Chimps sanctuary. Quality of care issues have in 2020 emerged as a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Book & film reviews, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA Tagged With: Bruce Wagman, Cleveland Amory, Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, Kathleen Conlee, Lindsay Vanderhoogt, Merritt Clifton, Nim Chimpsky, Robert Ingersoll

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

Should giving shelter dogs & cats to university labs count as “live release”?

May 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

USDA says pound animal giveaways to vet schools are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act              BATON ROUGE,  Louisiana;  TUSKEGEE, Alabama––Recent transfers of shelter animals to the Louisiana State University and Tuskegee University veterinary schools have allegedly been reported by shelter personnel as “adoptions” or transfers to “rescue.” The disputed transactions appear to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Allison Vestal-Laborde, Amanda Pumilia Forde, Bailey Chauvin, Christel Slaughter, David M. Neely, Desiree Bender, Ginger Guttner, Jeremy Beckham, Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, Kim Chatelain, Merritt Clifton, Mikhaela Singleton, Ray Smith, Robert Gibbens, Sarah Hicks, Tina Hively

“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

Animals In The Third Reich:  Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust  

June 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Boria Sax Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.,  (370 Lexington Ave.,  New York,  NY  10017),  2000. 206 pages,  paperback.  $19.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Hitler was a vegetarian,  probably in emulation of the composer Richard Wagner,   Boria Sax asserts,  but claims,  as vegetarian historian Rynn Berry and others have documented,  that “Hitler was probably […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Merritt Clifton, Richard Craven, Rynn Berry, Sydney Coleman

Four lionesses: women who made a difference for animals

February 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth,  widely separated in geography,  ages,  life experience,  and focus in activism,  likely never met,  nor even heard of each other,  yet––like tens of thousands of other relatively anonymous women––lent strength to the ever-growing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Coby Siegenthaler, Hans Siegenthaler, Lorraine Blake Roth, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick

Beyond sentience: will Brexit halt live animal exports from the U.K.?

December 14, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Minister for Agriculture & Rural Affairs confirms her government is “considering options to control live animal exports”             LONDON,  U.K.––British cabinet ministers,  after the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union,  called “Brexit” for short,  “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy,”  according to draft […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Regulation, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Claire Horton, David Bowles, Jon Craig, Merritt Clifton, Michael Gove, Phillip J. Lymbery, Theresa Villiers, Therese Coffey

Are politicians sentient? British animal advocates wonder

November 28, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Nothing yet on animal sentience in U.K. law             LONDON,  U.K.–– “Sentient,”  a word seldom used by mass media and little recognized by the public before a much decried vote of the British Parliament on November 15,  2017,  is overnight at the center of debate raging throughout the United Kingdom. Who is sentient?  What is sentience?  […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Bullfighting, Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Spectacles, United Kingdom, Zoos Tagged With: Andrew Griffin, Caroline Lucas, David Bowles, Merritt Clifton, Michael Gove, Philip J. Lymbery, Rowena Mason

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