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What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 18 Comments

Leading influence on rise of animal rights movement Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible direct involvement with animals or animal issues––but he is justly remembered among the greatest influences on the animal rights movement of our time, and the many […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Coretta Scott King, Henry Spira, Martin Luther King Jr.

Why did the ASPCA pres get $852,231, while we got $9.70 an hour?

December 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

We are NOT the ASPCA!!! This is an exposé (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write,  but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to –– because donors like her,  for the most part,  are paying not only for […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Landers, Beth Clifton, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myer, Henry Spira, Matthew Bershadker, Merritt Clifton

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

A Traitor To His Species:  Henry Bergh & The Birth Of The Animal Rights Movement

November 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Ernest Freeberg 322 pages,  hardcover.  $30.00. Basic Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 www.basicbooks.com Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Perhaps the first question to ask about a new biography of Henry Bergh,  of whom more than 50 have reputedly been written already,  with at least four close to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Population control, Religion & philosophy, USA, Working horses, Zoos Tagged With: Carolyn Earle White, Diana Belais, Ernest Freeberg, George Angell, Henry Spira, Kit Burns, Merritt Clifton, P.T. Barnum, Thomas Edison

Are kosher & halal slaughter bans anti-Semitic & Islamophobic?

January 14, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Animal advocacy, religious teaching, & cultural insecurity collide in Belgium             BRUSSELS,  Belgium––Is Belgium moving rapidly to ban slaughter without pre-stunning out of concern for animals? Or are prohibitions of the traditional kosher and halal slaughter methods rooted in latent anti-Semitism and Islamophobia? Slaughter without pre-stunning becomes illegal Whatever the political truth is,  legal reality […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Ann De Greef, Barbara Kay, Ben Weyts, Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Richard Schwartz

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

The Animal Shelter by Patricia Curtis

September 9, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Lodestar Books (c/o E.P. Dutton),  1984. 164 pages,  hardcover.  $13.95 original price. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The Animal Shelter,  by Patricia Curtis,  introduced a generation of young people to humane work. “I wrote The Animal Shelter 28 years ago,  so it is badly out-of-date,”  Curtis told me in May 2011,  seemingly surprised to be looked […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Population control, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Henry Spira, Patricia Curtis, Robert Rohde

Tom Regan, 78, made the case for animal rights

February 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Evolved from butcher to leading advocate of vegan philosophy          RALEIGH,  North Carolina–– Animal rights philosopher Tom Regan,  78,  died on the morning of February 17,  2017. “He had taken pneumonia last week,”  longtime family friend Bernard Unti told ANIMALS 24-7.   “The family was all with him,”  including Nancy,  Regan’s wife of more than 50 years,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Colin Smith, Ethel Thurston, Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Mohandas Ghandi, Nancy Regan, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature

November 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part III of The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.;  see also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes! Very likely no president of the Humane Society of the U.S. ever looked forward to telephone calls from either Ann Cottrell Free or Henry Spira,  nine years younger, who emerged as a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Henry Gitano, Henry Spira, James S. Free, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer

The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.

November 24, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

  How five journalists helped to shape the world’s largest animal charity (First of a 3-part series.  See also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers?  Yes!  and Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature.)           WASHINGTON D.C.––Celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Humane Society of the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Ann Landers, Bernard Unti, Cleveland Amory, Fred Myers, Henry Spira, Mel Morse, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

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