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Anti-vivisectionism goes to the dogs

March 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,  except in their capacity to raise funds.” WASHINGTON D.C.––Lest there be any doubt that antivivisection advocacy in the 21st century has gone to the dogs,  the White Coat Waste Project,  the Humane Society of the U.S.,  and Stop Animal Exploitation Now in recent […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Ingrid Newkirk, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Natalie Warhit, Sara Amundson

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

How does anyone run a monkey through a washing machine by accident?

December 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Technicians at Oregon Health Sciences University,  Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories,  Harvard,  & Bristol-Myers Squibb have managed to do it HILLSBORO,  Oregon––An Oregon Health Sciences University internal investigation into the deaths of two rhesus macaques who were killed on August 13,  2020 when their cage was run through a cage-washing machine with the monkeys still inside […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Jim Klassen, Max Egener, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paula S. Gladue

Covance beagle breeding kennels: they are not Snoopy’s doghouse

July 19, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: David Fleshler, Friedrich Mulln, Kitty Block, Lisa Leiten, Mary Beth Sweetland, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Steve Hindi

SAEN asks USDA to close lab that paid near-record fine

June 19, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Repeated Animal Welfare Act violations found in follow-up inspection          EVERETT,  Washington––Citing repeated and continuing alleged violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by the Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories’ facility in Everett,  Washington,  Stop Animal Exploitation on June 19,  2017 asked USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service western regional director Robert Gibbens to terminate […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Japan, Lab animals, Other species, Pacific rim, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Robert Gibbens, SAEN, SNBL

The Six Million Dollar Chimps

June 3, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Will $6 million be enough to provide lifetime care to as many as 66 chimps abandoned in Liberia by the New York Blood Center?             NEW YORK CITY,  WASHINGTON D.C.––Response from animal advocates was mixed after Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle on May 30,  2017 announced a $6 million commitment from the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Lab animals, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Jane Goodall, Kaleigh Rogers, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Richard Wrangham, Wayne Pacelle

Trump triumph: zapping USDA web site zapped “puppy mill” law too

March 28, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Maryland legislature & SAEN try to undo some of the damage          BALTIMORE,  CINCINNATI––Can a federal agency nullify state law just by taking down a web site? While proposing budget cuts that would hamper animal-related law enforcement under every federal agency with relevant jurisdiction,  the Donald Trump administration on February 17,  2017 at least temporarily […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Educational use, Feature Home Top, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Regulation, Science, Show, Slaughter, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Benjamin Kramer, Donald Trump, Ian Duncan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Russ Kick, SAEN

Thumbing nose at lawsuits, USDA-APHIS hides more info

March 15, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Deletes documents posted in response to Freedom of Information Act requests WASHINGTON D.C.––Hit with a second lawsuit,  draft legislation,  and letters from 119 members of Congress demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture restore web sites including Animal Welfare Act enforcement information,  the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service has instead thumbed its collective […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Live transport, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Show, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Carole and Howard Baskin, Delcianna Winders, Lee & Mike McGartland, Michael Budkie, Natalie Lima, Russ Kick, Russ Rector

USDA-APHIS reposts less than 1% of deleted law enforcement info

February 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

More activists & animal charities sue          WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on February 17,  2017 reposted some of the inspection reports on animal research facilities that it deleted from the USDA-APHIS web site two weeks earlier,  on February 3,  2014,  but not enough to quell protest or […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Show, USA, Welfare, Zoos Tagged With: David Klepper, Delcianna Winders, Melissa Chan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Russ Kick, Wayne Pacelle

Is Protect the Harvest behind USDA purge of Animal Welfare Act data?

February 5, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Horse Protection Act enforcement info also deleted          WASHINGTON D.C.––Months of well-placed rumors that U.S. agriculture policy under President Donald Trump will in effect be directed by Indiana oil magnate Forrest Lucas,  founder of the anti-animal advocacy organization Protect the Harvest,  appear to have been confirmed on February 3,  2017,  when––without prior public notice––the USDA […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Breeding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Science, USA Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Donald Trump, Forrest Lucas, Justin Goodman, Michael Budkie

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