For factory-farmed pigs, avoiding African swine fever may be about as good as the grim news gets GREENPORT, New York––With all eyes on the progress of vaccination against the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has to date killed nearly 3.5 million people, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service in early May quietly announced a breakthrough […]
World Federation for Animals seeks “One ring to bind them all”
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 […]
2020 Animals 24-7 Form 990
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Pit bulls: new gene study shows it is NOT “all in how you raise them”
Aggression starts from inherited traits SEATTLE, Washington––The dogma that dog aggression, especially pit bull aggression, is “all in how you raise them” is again refuted by science, but the average reader will have a hard time deciphering the message from the highly technical report “Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behavior,” […]
Black history & animals
(Please scroll down to find links on topics including Leadership, Institutional racism, Ku Klux Klan, Pit bulls & the black community, Slavery & resistance, Environmental justice, African animal advocates, Africa Network for Animal Welfare, and Integration era.) Leadership • What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. • A black-and-white issue […]
Recurring nightmare: my escape from a serial no-killer, by Beth Clifton
Six years later it seems to be happening again PORT RICHEY, Florida––Pasco County Animal Services and Suncoast Animal League personnel on May 3, 2019 removed thirty-two dogs, four cats and a gerbil from the rented premises of the Humane Society of West Florida, a dilapidated former self-storage building in […]
Animals 24-7 IRS Form 990 for 2018
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Beth Clifton on pit bulls & Rottweilers
Beth Clifton on pit bulls & Rottweilers Recurring nightmare: my escape from a serial no-killer, by Beth Clifton • Pushing bully behavior: the ASPCA, Best Friends, & HSUS in Springfield • Are pit bulls monsters or are they just dogs? • The Rottweilers in my life • Bulldogs, bullying & bravado: the heart of pit […]