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Frankenstein’s Cat:  Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts

September 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Emily Anthes Scientific American / Farrar,  Straus & Giroux 241 pages,  2013 Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Among the advantages of reviewing Frankenstein’s Cat:  Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts five years after initial publication is the opportunity to see how accurately author and biotech enthusiast Emily Anthes used what she termed her “crystal […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: Emily Anthes, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Merritt Clifton

“Best science” won’t protect “clean meat” from foes, warns vet of biotech wars

July 23, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Fear of science & change will be weapons for animal industries trying to save their rump roasts             CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––“Do not assume that doing the best science possible will insulate you from criticism,”  AquaBounty Technologies chief executive Ronald L. Stotish warned the New Harvest 2018 conference on “cellular agriculture,”  toward the end of two days […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Eggs, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, France, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Pigs, Poultry, Regulation, Science, Sheep & goats, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bruce Friedrich, Craig Medred, Frankenfish, Johann Georg Faust, Lisa Murkowski, Mary Shelley, Merritt Clifton, New Harvest, Ronald L. Stotish

Pat Derby founded the Performing Animal Welfare Society & ARK 2000 sanctuary

May 18, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Performer turned sanctuarian Pat Derby,  69,  founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society,  died from throat cancer on February 15,  2013 at her home on the ARK 2000 sanctuary she built near San Andreas,  California.  “Ed Stewart,  her partner of 37 years,  was by her side,”  said the PAWS death announcement. Best seller Derby’s 1976 […]

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