SHARK’s flying machines expose the alleged Bloody Red Baron of animal testing CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Labcorp, parent company of Covance Research Products, has yet to respond to SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) drone video exposing how thousands of beagles live at the Covance company puppy mill in Cumberland, Virginia, according to SHARK president Steve Hindi. […]
Secrets of Doris Day’s life & work for animals
Publicity added much spin & gloss to what was already a positive record CARMEL, California––Doris Day, 97, died from pneumonia on May 13, 2019. Day was remembered worldwide as a singer who recorded more than 650 songs between 1939 and 1967; an actress who starred in more than 40 films between 1947 and 1968, […]
Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse
What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding a white horse, red horse, black horse, and pale horse to sow Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil, […]
Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird
The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters, little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs, widely distributed via social media, of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]
Ex-HSUS vp David Wills child sex trial reset again, to Feb. 2019
Trial delayed since 2015 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Already postponed many times, the long awaited trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has again been rescheduled. Previous delays have been attributed to the Wills defense team allegedly stalling for time. The current […]
HSUS election picks are too few to stop the Trump juggernaut
Humane Society Legislative Fund fails to endorse enough Democratic challengers to slow anti-animal Republican momentum in the U.S. House & Senate WASHINGTON D.C.––If voters who care about animals follow the recommendations of the Humane Society Legislative Fund arm of the Humane Society of the U.S. at the polls on election day, November 6, 2018, […]
Pushing bully behavior: the ASPCA, Best Friends, & HSUS in Springfield
An open letter from Beth Clifton to: Matthew Bershadker, president, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Julie Castle, president, Best Friends Animal Society; Kitty Block, president, Humane Society of the United States Dear Matthew, Julie, & Kitty: Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this letter. My name is Beth Clifton. […]
Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction
Sagas of alleged giant predators turned animal rights stars WASHINGTON D.C.––Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a saga of supposedly vanished giant predators, reinvented as animal rights celebrities, debuted to bad reviews on June 22, 2018, yet proved to be a box office magnet, grossing $1.2 billion in its first month. Animal Wellness Action, a political action […]
New Best Friends & HSUS execs flunk economic logic that dogs understand
Response to “rescuers” buying from “puppy mills” was swift, furious, & tone-deaf WASHINGTON D.C.––Response from the U.S. humane community to Washington Post freelance contributor Kim Kavin’s April 11, 2018 exposé “Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn” was swift, furious, and tone-deaf to the message screaming out of Kavin’s revelation that at […]
Big win over the “big lick” walking horse industry in 2018 federal budget
“Big lickers” kicked, but Congress kicked back WASHINGTON D.C.––Winning increasingly often against initially steep odds, BillyGoBoy and friends opposed to soring horses to make them step higher appear likely to enjoy the last horse laugh over the walking horse show industry. Walking horse shows have been infamously dominated for decades by trainers who––defying the […]