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Betty White, 99, “white-washed” animal use industries for 50 years

January 3, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The Betty White reputation for animal advocacy rewrites history             LOS ANGELES––Betty White,  99,  a radio and television actress,  producer,  talk show and game show personality whose broadcast career began at eight years old in 1930,  died on December 31,  2021,  just 18 days before what would have been her 100th birthday. Most of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Screen industry, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Allen Ludden, Bea Arthur, Gail Eisnitz, Koko, Merritt Clifton, Michael Mountain, Penny Patterson, Sean Hawkins

Cockfighting in Kentucky: SHARK promises Fourth of July fireworks

July 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Projected busiest traffic weekend ever gives Kentucky State Police an excuse––but what explains 16 years since last state cockfighting prosecution?             LEXINGTON, Kentucky––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] and the Kentucky State Police appear to be rocketing toward a head-on collision over the 2021 Fourth of July weekend,  with the Fourth itself predicted to be […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Gail Eisnitz, Greg Stumbo, John Goodwin, Kentucky State Police, Matt Bevin, Matthew Weisberg, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle

Secret agent for animals: Pete Paxton

October 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Rescue Dogs by Pete Paxton with Gene Stone $26.00 hardcover,  246 pages. TarcherPerigree, c/o Penguin Random House Penguinrandomhouse.com   “Pete Paxton (a pseudonym to protect his identity) is nationally recognized as the leading undercover investigator and rescuer of dogs in peril,”  the Rescue Dogs jacket tells us. ANIMALS 24-7 hopes not,  because if Paxton is […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: Bob Baker, C.C. Baird, Deborah Howard, Gail Eisnitz, Jason Smith, Kathy Bauck, Merritt Clifton, Pete Paxton

Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd

June 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence,  as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy,  meat,  and poultry consumption among younger […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Becky sandstedt, Gail Eisnitz, H. Glenn Esbenshade, Lynn Becker, Merritt Clifton, Nick Weaver, Stan Curtis, Temple Grandin, Trent Loos

Timothy J. Walker, 73, exposed slaughterhouse cruelty

January 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

by Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator, Humane Farming Association Timothy J. Walker,  73,  died on September 10,  2018 in Naples,  Florida,  a little known hero for animals sent to slaughter. After graduating from St. Mary’s High School in St. Louis,  Walker at age 17 joined his two first cousins in the U.S. Navy. Disaster relief Initially stationed […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Gail Eisnitz, Henry Spira

If “your ass is grass,”  ranchers lost their animals’ butts in 2015-2016 winter

May 13, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

And you paid for it Part 1 of a 3-part series examining winter, wildlife,  & livestock (Next:  Winter policy favors feeding elk but starving bison and Suspension of PZP test means more people could eat a horse.)          SAN FRANCISCO,  California;  BOZEMAN,  Montana––Green grass is already pushing up through the bones of grass-eating hoofed animals who starved […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Sheep & goats, USA Tagged With: Brad Miller, Gail Eisnitz, Merritt Clifton, Stephany Seay

NFL warns players–22 years after Humane Farming Association

May 5, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Eating Mexican or Chinese meat said to bring risk of ingesting banned drug          NEW YORK CITY––A National Football League warning to players against eating meat from Mexico and China that may contain the synthetic steroid clenbuterol in early May 2016 at last caught up to Humane Farming Association warnings to the American public––22 years […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cattle & dairy, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Europe, European Union, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mexico, Netherlands, Pigs, Racing, Show, Slaughter, Slaughter, Slaughter, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Working horses Tagged With: Duane Brown, Gail Eisnitz, Karel van Knoppen, Merritt Clifton

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