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Gary Tiscornia, 75, headed Michigan Humane & Monterey County SPCA

November 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Led Michigan Humane recovery post-David Wills             TUCSON,  Arizona––Gary Tiscornia,  75,  died on October 14,  2021 in Tucson,  Arizona,  his home for much of his childhood,  his university and early professional years,  and in retirement after 41 years of leading or helping to lead the Humane Society of Tucson,  the Michigan Humane Society,  the Society […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Circuses, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Rodeo, Shelters, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Eileen Liska-Stronczer, Eric Mills, Gary Francione, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Waldo Tiscornia, Warren Cox

Geologist John Stockwell co-edited journal Between the Species

February 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Longtime advocate for animals & vegetarian living John Stockwell,  85,  an advocate for animals and vegetarian living whose involvement dated back to the very beginnings of the late twentieth century animal rights movement,  died on November 23,  2020 in Berkeley,  California,  his home off and on since 1961 and continuously since 1982. Born in Superior,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Berkeley Humane Commission, Eric Mills, Merritt Clifton, Steve Sapontzis

PawPAC & Contra Costa Humane Society founder Rose Lernberg, 88

June 17, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

“Put El Cerrito on the map in animal rights” Rose Matychak Lernberg,  88,  a founding member of both the California humane lobbying organization PawPAC and the Contra Costa Humane Society,  died on June 6,  2016 at Chaparral House,  a nursing home in Berkeley,  California,  where she had resided during three years of illness. A resident […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Religion & philosophy, Welfare Tagged With: Eric Mills, Gladys Sargent, Merritt Clifton, Ronald A. Lernberg, Rose Matychak Lernberg, Virginia Handley

“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

Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality:

September 8, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

On Care for Our Common Home Melville House Publishers,  Brooklyn & London, July 2015.   165 pages, with notes.  $14.95.  Reviewed by Eric Mills,  founder & coordinator,  Action for Animals ([email protected]) The British newspaper The Guardian called Pope Francis’ Enclycical on Climate Change & Inequality “The most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Eric Mills, Pope Francis, St. Francis of Assisi

“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

Busted for alleged arms trafficking, Leland Yee had mixed record on animals

April 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Allegedly bought from Philippine rebels,  tried to resell to FBI undercover agent             SAN FRANCISCO––The March 26,  2014 arrest of California state senator Leland Yee for alleged firearms trafficking and corruption sent shockwaves rippling through the animal advocacy community,  as well as through the California Democratic Party and San Francisco’s Chinatown,  […]

Filed Under: Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Eric Mills, Leland Yee, Merritt Clifton

“Steer-tailing” is even more brutal than “horse tripping”

March 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

The California State Legislative Counsel Bureau on February 6, 2014 issued a legal opinion on “steer tailing,”  a standard event in charreada,  or Mexican-style rodeo. The legal opinion concludes: “To summarize,  the practice of steer tailing is not prohibited per se by the animal cruelty laws (of California.)  It is our opinion,  however,  that…a court,  […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: charreada, Eric Mills

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