One cockfighting family killed another CINCINNATI, Ohio––There appeared to be no doubt in the minds of previewers of The Pike County Massacre, a three-part Oxygen mini-series that premiered on November 24 and November 25, 2023, as to just what led to the eight murders the series described. “Center to the case,” wrote Peter White […]
BLM bans cyanide-shooting “coyote-getters,” but keeps it very quiet
Bureau of Land Management hid the announcement––why? WASHINGTON, D.C.––Has Bureau of Land Management director Tracy Stone-Manning really banned the use of M-44 “coyote getter” cyanide-shooting traps on BLM lands? “Yes, it’s real,” Predator Defense Fund president Brooks Fahey assured ANIMALS 24-7 late on November 24, 2023, providing an unpublicized link to confirmation at https://www.blm.gov/programs/fish-and-wildlife. Ducking […]
What Wayne Hsiung, Mercy for Animals, & others did for Thanksgiving
“Open rescues,” closed jail cells, undercover video, & two challenges to “ag gags” in Canada SANTA ROSA & LOS ANGELES, California––Mass media food sections, as always, fixated during the run-up to Thanksgiving 2023 on how best to roast turkeys. Vegan and vegetarian media comparably focused on promoting plant-based alternatives to turkey dinners Direct Action […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 20, 2023 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and […]
How global campaign against greyhound racing got to the home stretch
Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog that Inspired a Movement by Christine A. Dorchak & Carey Theil 224 pages. $8.99 Kindle; $17.96 paperback. Lantern Publishing & Media, P.O. Box 1350, Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don’t judge this book by the cover. The pastel […]
Feds give Makah tribe the go-ahead to kill gray whales again
NOAA issues Final Environmental Impact Statement, the last legal obstacle between gray whales & Makah harpoons & bullets SEATTLE, Washington––An early 2024 resumption of gray whale killing by the Makah tribe of Neah Bay, Washington, seems all but assured after the November 17, 2023 publication of a 2,364-page Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Makah […]
If dogs kill your mama or grandma, don’t expect the law to give a damn
Sau Nguyen, 79, of Houston, was the 12th grandma killed by pit bull, Rottweiler, Cane Corso, or Kangal in the U.S. this year, with no dog owners criminally charged HOUSTON, Texas; BIRMINGHAM, Alabama––Practically the definition of a safe city is a place where women and old people can go out alone, unarmed, without fear of […]
Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt endorses the cockfighting industry
Praises Oklahoma Game Fowl Commission for “preserving heritage” OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt all but dropped his rooster into a cockpit and placed a bet at the Oklahoma Game Fowl Commission annual legislative meeting on November 12, 2023 in McAlester, Oklahoma. “Hey everyone. Governor Kevin Stitt here,” he opened, addressing the meeting by video. […]
Sluggish on getting the lead out: feds again play pro-hunting politics
Sluggish on getting the lead out: feds again play pro-hunting politics WASHINGTON D.C.–– The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service still isn’t getting the lead out. And is not about to, in view that both major U.S. political parties continue to kiss the portions of hunters’ anatomy where lead continues to accumulate in regulatory posteriors. (See […]
Rabies deaths drive effort in Vietnam to stop eating dogs & cats
Soi Dog Foundation enlists teachers & practitioners of traditional medicine in campaign HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Sixty-four human deaths from rabies in Vietnam during the first nine months of 2023, an increase of 21 from the first nine months of 2022, have sparked renewed efforts to eradicate the dog and cat meat traffic. Medically recognized […]