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Complaining that seals cause “stress,” farm cuts gills from salmon alive

February 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

John Robins:  “Salmon farming is cruel,  plain and simple.”              STORNOWAY,  Scotland––The Danish-owned Scottish Salmon Company,  just three weeks after complaining to media about seal attacks “stressing” farmed Atlantic salmon near Portree on Skye,  has been exposed in undercover video obtained by Animal Equality U.K. for allegedly allowing routine cruelty in processing on a scale […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Abigail Penny, John A. MacInnes, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton

Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads

February 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act brought law to save seals in Scottish waters             EDINBURGH,  Scotland––Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads,  posted by Animal Concern Scotland on February 1,  2021. The reward is specifically for information leading to the first successful prosecution under a new Scottish seal protection law,  adopted on […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bakkafrost, Bernadette Jordan, Edward Kolodziej, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Tavish Scott, Zhenyu Tian

Why did 162,000 factory-farmed salmon make a jailbreak?

October 15, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Everyone is talking about the salmon,  but almost no one about the interests of the fish themselves BELLINGHAM,  Washington––Thousands of people around the Salish Sea have been talking about the Great Salmon Escape since August 20,  2017,   when an estimated 162,000 hatchery-bred Atlantic salmon made a jailbreak from a ruptured sea pen at Cypress Island in […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, The Americas, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Ashley Braun, Erica Gies, John F. Robins, John Ryan, Lynda V. Mapes, Merritt Clifton

“Salmon farming is an environmental disaster”

February 28, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by John F. Robins,  Animal Concern Scotland About thirty years ago an Animal Concern Director and I attended one of the first annual conferences of the Scottish fish farming industry. It was held in a wee hall in Oban and there were perhaps a hundred people attending.  A student from University of Stirling gave a […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Top, Fish, Food, Isles, Letters, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Opinions & Letters, Other species, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: John F. Robins

Back to The Jungle Book: U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit

July 6, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Last of a five-part series   See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan,”  Farmed animals & money talks and What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals.          LONDON,  U.K.––When Britannia ruled the waves,  when the sun never set on the British Empire,  Rudyard Kipling in 1894 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Birds, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Laws, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Scotland, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Brexit, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Orenstein, RSPCA, Rudyard Kipling

Farmed animals & money talks

July 4, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

U.K. farmed animal welfare laws older & weaker than many voters believe Part III of a five-part series.  See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan.”,  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals and Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.) While residents of the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Turkeys, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: CIWF, Helmut Dungler, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Peter Stevenson, RSPCA

Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?

July 1, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part I of a five-part series.   See also Part II: Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan” and Part III: Farmed animals & money talks.   Part IV:  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals. Part V:  Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.          LONDON,  U.K.––Will the June 23,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Animal Concern, David Bowles, Helmut Dungler, Janice Cox, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Peter Davies, RSPCA, Shirley McGreal, Vier Pfoten, Wim de Kok

Why was a convicted poacher named to Scottish Wild Fisheries Reform advisory commission?

August 22, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

An open letter from John F. Robins,  Animal Concern Scotland Aileen McLeod,  MSP Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform St Andrew’s House,  Regent Road,  Edinburgh EH1 3DG Scotland    Dear Minister:  I write concerning Usan Salmon Fisheries Ltd.,  which trades as the Scottish Wild Salmon Company. Last month at Forfar Sheriff Court,  Usan […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, Fish, Food, Isles, Letters, Marine life, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Scotland, Wildlife Tagged With: Aileen McLeod, Animal Concern Scotland, George Pullar, John F. Robins, Usan Salmon Fisheries Ltd.

Scottish minister admits allowing Gamekeepers’ Association to write policy

July 5, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by John F. Robins I’d like you to view a short video (link at the foot of this page). In fact I’d like you to view it two or three times just so you believe that you really are hearing with your own ears exactly what Aileen McLeod,  the Scottish Minister for Environment,  Climate Change […]

Filed Under: Birds, Deer & other horned species, Europe, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Scotland, Wildlife Tagged With: Aileen McLeod, Animal Concern, John F. Robins

Fife Animal Park Closure

March 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

For the past couple of years we have been receiving complaints about Fife Animal Park,  a privately run mini-zoo with a mixture of domestic and exotic animals.  Complaints came in from both the public and staff. Although quite obviously a commercial venture, best described as a diversification project by a farmer, Fife Animal Park was […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Zoos Tagged With: Animal Concern, John F. Robins

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