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U.S. Senate votes to repeal pit bull & Rottweiler bans in military housing

July 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Soldiers & civilians protected by U.S. Army, Marine Corps, & Air Force orders now at risk             WASHINGTON, D.C.;  FORT POLK, Louisiana––The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate  quietly bootlegged language into S.4049,  the now Senate-approved National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021,  which would repeal the bans long in effect on keeping pit bulls,  Rottweilers,  and […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: and Damayanti Samanta, Anya Ashley, Bruce B Horswell, Donald Trump, Khurram Khan, Merritt Clifton, Wyatt Herrington

The minks’ jinx: is COVID-19 an exploited species’ revenge?

May 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch disclose second case of mink-to-human COVID-19 transmission             WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands;  WUHAN, China––“A second case has become known on one of the infected mink farms where,  most likely,  SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19]passed from mink to human,”  Dutch minister of health Hugo DeYoung and minister of agriculture Carola Schouten jointly advised the Dutch parliament on May 25, 2020. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Carola Schouten, Donald Trump, Hugo DeYoung, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li, Wang Yanyi

COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food

April 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But preserving profits, “red state” votes,  and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern             SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28,  2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dave Dreeszen, Donald Trump, Esther Mechler, John Tyson, Merritt Clifton, Roger Witherspoon

Ravaging Asia & Africa: a much deadlier plague than COVID-19

February 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World fiddles while grasshoppers munch             NINGBO,  China;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––A much deadlier plague than the COVID-19 coronavirus is sweeping westward from China through Pakistan,  across Central Asia,  and throughout the Horn of Africa,  flying 100 miles a day,  devouring crops enough to feed as many as 34 million people,  according to the United Nations Food […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Egypt, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Kenya, North Africa, Pakistan, Poultry, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Cara Anna, Dominique Bourgeon, Donald Trump, Imran Khan, Kate Ng, Mark Lowcock, Merritt Clifton, Michael D’Estries, Rory Sullivan, Zhang Long

HSUS, Donald Trump, & the PACT Act: The Art of the Deal

November 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Good publicity for Trump,  fundraising photo-op for HSUS & friends,  but not much in it for animals WASHINGTON D.C.––One could almost suspect a quid-pro-quo deal––Latin for “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine”––among U.S. President Donald Trump and major U.S. animal charities,  especially the Humane Society of the United States,   in arranging the heavily […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Screen industry, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Donald Trump, Hillary Hanson, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Michael Vick, Sara Amundson, Vikki Lynn Kittles

Feds must hide names of hunters who kill for show, rules Trump appointee

August 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Brave enough to shoot a cage-raised lion,  but not enough to face the public             WASHINGTON,  D.C.––Ruling that trophy hunters’ right to privacy trumps the public right to know what animals they kill,  even though the goal of trophy hunting is showing off,  U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on August 19,  2019 ruled that the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Blake Owen Fischer, David Bernhardt, Donald Trump, Guy Gorney, Jimmy John Liautaud, Judge Timothy Kelly, Larysa Switlyk, Merritt Clifton, Mike Jines, Ryan Zinke, Tess Thompson Talley, Walter Palmer

Cockfighters “win” from delay of hurricane aid to Puerto Rico

May 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Frustration at lack of help fuels defense of cockfighting against U.S. federal “meddling”              SAN JUAN,  Puerto Rico––Puerto Rican cockfighters and politicians who boast of standing beside them may have been the only winners when U.S. Representative Chip Roy on May 24,  2019 blocked more than $900 million in disaster relief funding for victims of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, Sports, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Chip Roy, Donald Trump, Jenniffer González-Colón, Merritt Clifton, Ricardo Llerandi, Ricardo Rosselló, Robert Hayes Gore, Roberto Clemente

Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse

April 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it             WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  riding a white horse,  red horse,  black horse,  and pale horse to sow Pestilence,  War,  Famine,  and Death,  are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Chris Stewart, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Laura Leigh, Merritt Clifton, Priscilla Feral, Sara Amundson, Suzanne Roy

Walls, boar purges, & no-man’s-land fail to stop African swine fever

January 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Wild boar to blame for only 1% of outbreaks, Chinese learn             PARIS,  France––Donald Trump is not the only world leader who has yet to learn that walls don’t work––not if the goal is really to keep a foreign threat out,  as opposed to presenting the appearance to a political base of doing something drastic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lithuania, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Ukraine Tagged With: Donald Trump, Frank Fang, Merritt Clifton

Federal shutdown helps disease race from gamecocks to egg barns

January 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Deadly exotic Newcastle outbreaks were all but ignored even before U.S. President Donald Trump furloughed most of the government personnel who could have responded             RIVERSIDE,  California–– Pleading for urgent attention to the recent spread of exotic Newcastle disease from southern California cockfighting flocks to commercial egg barns,  Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) moderator […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Donald Trump, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garland, Tim Lundeen

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