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ALDF United unionizing bid splits Animal Legal Defense Fund

January 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Earthquake rumbles along fault lines in the ALDF mission and structure              COTATI, California––The Animal Legal Defense Fund,  founded in 1979,  headquartered practically on top of the San Andreas Fault just north of San Francisco,  has never clearly decided whether it is a professional association,  a nonprofit law firm,  or an animal advocacy group. Instead,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: ALDF, Elizabeth Putsche, Joyce Tischler, Katie Barrows, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Ogiltree Deakins, Stephen Wells

Cormorant killers shoot the bird to D.C. judicial ruling

April 13, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Pretext for killing shot down in court          PORTLAND,  Oregon––Rushing to kill double-crested cormorants before opponents of the killing could get to court,  the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and USDA Wildlife Services on April 7,  2016 opened fire near East Sand Island,  near the mouth of the Columbia River. “Federal agents in boats are using […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: ALDF, Bob Sallinger, Merritt Clifton, PEER, Portland Audubon, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Stephen Wells

Marc R. Jurnove won right of citizens to bring Animal Welfare Act cases

October 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Last case was Angel’s Gate          Marc R. Jurnove,  63,  died on July 3,  2013 in McLeansville,  North Carolina. A U.S. Coast Guard veteran who had ridden his own horse since age seven,  Jurnove went on to spend 17 years as a mounted park ranger in New York City,  rising to the rank of lieutenant. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Zoos Tagged With: ALDF, Animal Welfare Act, ASPCA, Long Island Game Farm

Why did the Animal Legal Defense Fund go undercover?

September 30, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Were Tyson poultry-slaughtering line speeds really the focal issue? COTATI,  California––The “who,  what,  where,  when” and “how” of an Animal Legal Defense Fund undercover video exposé of alleged animal and employee abuse at a Tyson Foods chicken slaughterhouse in Carthage,  Texas were all identified in the September 14,  2015 ALDF media release announcing it. “Why,”  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: ALDF, Carter Dillard, Lawrence Weiss, Mercy for Animals, Merritt Clifton, Patricia Jones, Southern Poverty Law Center, Tyson Foods

Forced abortions raise alarm over Florida lab monkey breeders

April 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

“Not In My Back Yard” dispute becomes national debate LaBELLE, Florida––A long-running “Not In My Back Yard” dispute over the location of a breeding facility in Hendry County, Florida that supplies monkeys to laboratories has exploded into a nationally visible debate over how monkeys are used in labs. Which is what many of the opponents […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Top, Lab animals, Science, USA Tagged With: ALDF, Animal Rights Foundation of Florida, BioCulture, David Roebuck, Hendry County, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Matt Dougherty, Mazor Farm, Primate Products, Primera

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