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Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?

December 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns “Without guilt improvement is drastically diminished.” – Thomas Coates, Facebook comment, November 22, 2021 The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people,  perhaps many, uncomfortable,  though not necessarily because of guilt.  People […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: B.R. Myers, Humphry Primatt, Jeff Sebo, Karen Davis, Leah Garcés, Marc Gunther, Thomas Coates

Animal charity management: mobilized millennials bumping off boomers?

April 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Regime change underway at Animal Legal Defense Fund,  National Audubon Society,  & Tony La Russa’s Animal Foundation COTATI,  WALNUT CREEK,  California;  NEW YORK,  N.Y.––Are unionization at the Animal Legal Defense Fund,  the resignation of five members of Tony La Russa’s family from Tony La Russa’s Animal Foundation,  though not La Russa himself,  and the exit […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: ALDF United, David Yarnell, Elena Bicker, Elizabeth Gray, Greg McCoy, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Tony La Russa

ALDF United unionizing bid splits Animal Legal Defense Fund

January 29, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Earthquake rumbles along fault lines in the ALDF mission and structure              COTATI, California––The Animal Legal Defense Fund,  founded in 1979,  headquartered practically on top of the San Andreas Fault just north of San Francisco,  has never clearly decided whether it is a professional association,  a nonprofit law firm,  or an animal advocacy group. Instead,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, USA Tagged With: ALDF, Elizabeth Putsche, Joyce Tischler, Katie Barrows, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Ogiltree Deakins, Stephen Wells

Marking territory: photographers vs. Alley Cat Allies

November 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pissing match hits the Chronicle of Philanthropy             ARLINGTON,  Virginia––Founded almost literally in a Washington D.C. alley to advocate on behalf for one of the most contentious of species,  Alley Cat Allies has for 28 years been embroiled in controversy on a daily basis,  but without––until mid-November 2018––itself becoming controversial over management issues. That was […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Donna Wilcox, Elizabeth Putsche, Jason Putsche, Judge Paul W. Grimm, Louise Holton, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Robin Ganzert

Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction

July 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Anna West, Annie Harvilicz, David Harvilicz, Josh Balk, Kitty Block, Marc Gunther, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Mike Markarian, Paul Shapiro, Wayne Pacelle

Wayne Pacelle resigns HSUS presidency, succeeded by Kitty Block

February 3, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Ousted by donor & staff rejection of board vote of confidence WASHINGTON D.C.––Kitty Block,  previously president of the Humane Society of the U.S. subsidiary Humane Society International,  on February 2,  2018 ascended to the HSUS presidency. Block became interim HSUS president following the surprise resignation of 13-year president Wayne Pacelle,  less than 24 hours after […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Barbara J. King, Danielle Paquette, Eric Bernthal, Grace Speights, Jennifer Fearing, Jim Greenbaum, Jonathan Lovvorn, Kitty Block, Marc Gunther, Marc Paulhus, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Lawson, Wayne Pacelle

Is Wayne Pacelle on his way out at the Humane Society of the U.S.?

January 28, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“Workplace misconduct” investigation could be the beginning of the end          WASHINGTON D.C.––Is the Humane Society of the U.S. close to changing the guard? Recent indications are that HSUS president Wayne Pacelle,  heading the organization since mid-2003,  may be on his way out at the 2018 HSUS midyear annual meeting,  if not sooner,  in favor […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Anna West, Arthur E. Benjamin, Carol Adams, David Wills, Eric Bernthal, Grace Speights, Heidi Prescott, Holly Hazard, Kitty Block, Marc Gunther, Merritt Clifton, Mike Markarian, Nicole Paquette, Paul Shapiro, Wayne Pacelle

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