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Horse defenders ask, “Where are the Cheshire cats of equine advocacy?”

October 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Barn-sour big groups leave the hard work to Lone Rangers Fighting the horse’s rear ends promoting the horse racing industry,  rodeo,  and “Big Lick” horse exhibition,  Political Animals founder Sherry DeBoer,  Action for Animals founder Eric Mills,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi,  and Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty founder Clant […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Show, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Action for Animals, Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty, Clant Seay, Eric Mills, Merritt Clifton, Political Animals, Sherry DeBoer, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

“The most egregious event in all of rodeo”

October 7, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Eric Mills,  founder,  Action for Animals Surely “single steer roping”  (aka “steer tripping” and, more aptly, “steer busting”) is the most egregious event in all of rodeo,  worse even than calf roping (babies!) or the Mexican charreada’s “horse tripping” and “steer tailing” events.  Anyone in doubt need only view the many YouTube videos.  Contusions, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Action for Animals, Eric Mills, steer busting

“Our State Fair is a great state fair!”

April 15, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Good news from California! Good news from the California State Fair! For the second consecutive year, there will be NO goldfish given away as prizes, and NO hermit crabs (all taken from the wild) sold as pets, thereby sparing the lives and suffering of many thousands of animals. And NO pregnant sows in those godawful […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Horse & livestock shows, Letters, Opinions & Letters Tagged With: Action for Animals, Eric Mills, goldfish, hermit crabs

Oakland bans elephant hooks

December 10, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Wednesday, December 10, 2:30 a.m. TO ELEPHANT ADVOCATES EVERYWHERE Some good news on the circus elephant front! Just got home from the Oakland City Council meeting (5:30pm – 2:30 a.m.) –an overflow crowd. The Council last night passed an ordinance banning the use of bullhooks and similar devices on circus elephants, following the lead of […]

Filed Under: Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Spectacles Tagged With: Action for Animals, bullhook, elephants, Eric Mills, Oakland, Ringling

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