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Cockfighting cases break three times in seven days

August 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Intensive SHARK,  Humane Farming Association,  & Animal Wellness Action pressure on law enforcement to crack down on cockfighting brings results             FELTON,  Delaware;  JEFFERSON, Louisiana;  ELYRIA, Ohio––Cockfighting cases breaking in three states within a week’s time demonstrate the influence of pressure brought to bear on law enforcement in recent months by the combined efforts of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Andrea Keen, Animal Wellness Action, Billy Keen, Humane Farming Association, Merritt Clifton, Peter Pham, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle

HFA & SHARK lawsuit hits Boone County, Illinois, for permitting steer-tailing

August 26, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Case has potential to stop charreada throughout Illinois             BELVIDERE,  Illinois––Charreada promoters suddenly have something more to worry about during the second half of the Illinois charreada season than just Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drones monitoring steer-tailing,  electroshocking,  horse-flogging,  and horse-tripping. An August 24,  2023 lawsuit brought against Boone County,  Illinois,  by the Humane […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Mexico, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Hub Conley Wouters, Humane Farming Association, Jessica Blome, Lily Rivo, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Supreme Court split verdict on California pig law sets up another round

May 12, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

California “wins” right to enforce ban on sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation stalls,  but Justice Kavanaugh tells agribusiness how they might reverse the decision WASHINGTON D.C.––Rendering a decision split more ways than a pork belly by a supermarket butcher,  with little consideration of pig suffering but a great deal of attention to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brett Kavanaugh, Farm Bureau Federation, Humane Farming Association, Humane Society of the U.S., National Pork Producers Council, Neil Gorsuch, PETA, United Egg Producers

Dog meat farmers’ protest reflects grassroots success in South Korea

April 28, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Home-grown anti-dog meat campaign succeeds where boycotts,  petitions,  & bashing failed for 40 years             SEOUL,  South Korea––About 50 people on April 25,  2023 straggled through the streets of Seoul,  the national capital of South Korea,  in a protest about dog-eating. Animal advocates’ events often attract much bigger crowds these days. These protesters were among […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Humane history, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, South Korea, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Animal Wellness Action, cockfighting, Humane Farming Association, Kim Keon Hee, Kim Min-seok, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Yoon Suk Yeol

98 alleged cockfighters busted; got only $50 fines & kept birds

February 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Weak Tennessee cockfighting penalties boost the price of eggs             MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee––Ninety-eight alleged cockfighters were cited and approximately 250 gamecocks were seized by the Union County Sheriff’s Office near Maynardville,  Tennessee on January 28,  2023. Yet none of the ninety-eight suspects went to jail.  All were released after paying $50 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Humane Farming Association, Jim Keen, Maynardville, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Union County, Wayne Pacelle

How to hang cockfighting high––and finish the job!

July 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Steve Hindi,  founder,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) launched our “Crush Cockfighting” campaign in 2018. Cockfighting at that time had never been seriously impacted by animal advocacy,  contrary to myths spread by those raising money off the issue. Cockfighting has twice been made illegal nationwide.  The first time […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Clint Eastwood, Crush Cockfighting, Humane Farming Association, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle

Hearts out of place: transplants, pigs, chickens, “victories” & McDonald’s

March 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

If “victories” for farmed animals meant beans,  that would be a substantial improvement BALTIMORE,  Maryland;  WASHINGTON D.C.––David Bennett,  57,  who on January 7,  2022 became the first human to receive a heart transplanted from a genetically-modified pig,  died on March 8,  2022 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hospital. “The biggest barrier to […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cloning & xenografts, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, David Bennett, Henry Spira, HSUS, Humane Farming Association, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mickey Dee, Ronald McDonald, Wayne Pacelle

Why California proposition 2, now in effect, is not protecting farmed animals

January 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Brad Miller Founder, Humane Farming Association California Proposition 2, passed by voters who hoped to protect farmed animals in November 2008, officially goes into non-effect this week. The Humane Society of the U.S. promised donors and the public that Proposition 2 would outlaw cages for laying hens and would result in a “cage-free” California. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Middle Right, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Brad Miller, HSUS, Humane Farming Association, Proposition 2, Wayne Pacelle

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