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The Quad State Tornado: 80,000 chickens took the biggest hit

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Help was mostly just a few miles––or blocks––from the tornado path             LITTLE ROCK,  LOUISVILLE,  MEMPHIS,  NASHVILLE,  ST. LOUIS––Major national charities are putting in their inevitable fundraising photo-ops,  but major animal rescue deployments are not expected––or wanted by most local humane societies and animal control agencies––in response to tornadoes that ripped through parts of Mississippi,  […]

Starving Florida manatees need more than just lettuce for Christmas

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Feeding the manatees helps.  Not feeding the algal blooms that kill seagrass would help them more. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida––The holiday season good news from the Indian River Lagoon region along the Florida east coast is that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on December 7,  2021 at last approved a Florida Wildlife Commission plan to […]

Robert Dole: why did Pacelle, Amundson, & Bershadker inflate his record?

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Robert Dole,  at best,  had a good record on animal issues for a Trumpist––but he was no Hubert Humphrey,  nor even a Richard Nixon Robert Joseph Dole,  98,  the 1996 Republican presidential nominee,  U.S. Senator from Kansas 1969-1996,  and a Kansas member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1960-1968,  died on December 5,  2021. Lauded […]

“We are fine;  the problem is with everyone else,” by Steve Hindi

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The animal cause needs an oil change & new spark plugs When I first read the title of Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?,  the most recent ANIMALS 24-7 guest column by United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis,  I hoped it referenced the faults and failures of our side. Then I started […]

Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?

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by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns “Without guilt improvement is drastically diminished.” – Thomas Coates, Facebook comment, November 22, 2021 The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people,  perhaps many, uncomfortable,  though not necessarily because of guilt.  People […]

“Spay-It-Forward” says Dr. Jeff, Rocky Mountain Vet

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Veterinarian Jeff Young updates an idea from Menander, Ben Franklin,  & Ralph Waldo Emerson DENVER, Colorado––Jeff Young,  DVM,  star of the reality TV show Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet,  reaching more than a million viewers per episode since 2015,  wants to sell the veterinary and humane communities on the concept he calls Spay-It-Forward. Young,  an animal control officer […]

Fauci vs. the White Coat Waste Project: did Hans Ruesch sire the conflict?

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And who was auto racer, author, & anti-vivisectionist Hans Ruesch,  anyhow? The conservative-leaning anti-vivisection organization White Coat Waste Project has since August 11,  2021 issued frequent flamboyant appeals and media releases associating 37-year National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci,  80,  with a variety of cruel and gruesome experiments on beagles and […]

Can Las Vegas really get to no-kill animal control? Don’t bet on it.

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Reality in Las Vegas is a lack of realism about the realities of the job             LAS VEGAS, Nevada––Each spin of the roulette wheel,  each toss of the dice,  each turn of the cards,  each yank of the lever on the one-armed bandit slot machines,  builds breathless anticipation,  but ends with exactly the same result,  […]

$350 million for animal crossings, but zip for roadkill avoidance education

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Win for HSUS is a gain,  yet not the most cost-effective way to save animal & human lives on highways             WASHINGTON D.C.––The first official U.S. national commitment to preventing roadkills of wildlife appears to have been buried deep within the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act signed into law U.S. President Joe Biden […]

Four court cases lost amid the Rittenhouse/Arbery media blitz

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Even coverage of the $15 million Elijah McClain settlement mostly omitted the vegan aspect Court news dominated mass media during the two weeks preceding Thanksgiving 2021,  but key developments in three cases long followed by ANIMALS 24-7 barely cracked even local news lineups. Coverage of a fourth case,  a $15 million settlement between the City of Aurora,  […]