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“Victories” that are not, & other views of big animal groups from “The Eejit”

September 28, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Promises, promises,”  to the skirl of bagpipes Soon-to-retire longtime Animal Concern campaign director John Robins,  being a Scot who may never have seen a baseball game,  is not known to have ever used a metaphor borrowed from baseball. (See “Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland.) Robins is known,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Top, Humane history, Isles, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Compassion In World Farming, Eurogroup, John Robins, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, RSPCA, Sara Amundson

“Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland

September 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins,  64,  probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history,  despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,”  has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth,  but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Captive animals, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Isles, Laws, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Morton, Don Staniford, Elena Edwards, John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Operation Dark Harvest, Phyllis Walker, Thomas Hamilton

Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks

July 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7,  2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Paal Haldorsen, Prince Charles, Rob Edwards, Yonathan Zohar

Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021

June 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

50-year effort by Scottish seal defenders––but Humane Society of the U.S. blasts out media releases claiming credit DUMBARTON,  Scotland––Culminating a half century of effort by the Save Our Seals Fund,  and Animal Concern Scotland,  led for decades by John Robins of both organizations,  the Scottish Parliament on June 17,  2020 ratified a new Animals & Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Staniford, John Robins, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Severin Carrell

Bird bloodbath over Britain & Scotland: regulatory failures, royal hypocrisy

October 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“General licenses” mean open season on 22 non-game species LONDON,  Edinburgh––Birds are in steep decline over Europe,  as they are over the U.S. and Canada,  reports the British-based organization BirdLife International,  monitoring bird populations since 1922––but the chief cause of the European bird crash appears to be simply that hunters,  including the British royal family,  […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Laws, Mediterranean, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Packham, Jason Endfield, John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II

U.K.: “Nation of animal lovers” or of wildlife assassins?

February 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Royal SPCA,  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,  et al disregard & even promote cruelty on a shocking scale             LONDON,  U.K.––The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Great Britain,  the world’s oldest western-style animal advocacy organization,  founded in 1824 and granted a royal charter in 1840 by Queen Victoria,  wants […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Fish, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Fiona Harvey, Jason Endfield, John Robins, Larysa Switlyk, Merritt Clifton, Nicola Sturgeon

Are sick factory-farmed salmon running amok in Puget Sound?

February 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Wild Fish Conservancy study suggests yes SEATTLE,  Washington––Are salmon throughout the Pacific Northwest at risk from a crippling disease spread by estimated 162,000 hatchery-bred Atlantic salmon who on August 20,  2017 made a jailbreak from a ruptured sea pen at Cypress Island in Puget Sound? If so,  will further losses to the already overfished wild salmon […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Scotland, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Cooke Aquaculture, John Robins, Kurt Beardslee, Ledet's Louisiana Seafood, Lynda V. Mapes, Merritt Clifton, Tristan Baurick

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