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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

Activist Mary Max, 52: maxed out as artist Peter Max, 81, peters out

June 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Suicide by nitrogen asphixiation             NEW YORK,  N.Y.––Animal advocate and philanthropist Mary Max,  52,  wife of pop artist Peter Max,  was on June 9,  2019 found dead in their apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City from allegedly self-induced nitrogen asphyxiation,  a bag-over-the-head method described by Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphrey in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Humane history, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amy Chozick, Gene Baur, Jasmin Singer, Libra Max, Marisa Miller Wolfson, Mary Balkin, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Sharon Otterman

Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election

November 5, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12;  Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13             SACRAMENTO, California;  ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Dog racing, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Greyhound racing, Greyhounds, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA, Uses of dogs, Welfare Tagged With: Brad Miller, Carey Thiel, Lynne Curry, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Tracy Reiman, Wayne Pacelle

“Clean meat” advocate Shapiro pushes product to stretch hot dogs

August 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Factory egg farmers meanwhile align behind HSUS-backed Proposition 12             SACRAMENTO,  California––Paul Shapiro,  the former Humane Society of the U.S. farmed animal campaigns manager and vegan advocate who resigned in January 2018 amid sexual harassment allegations,  is now pushing a product meant to stretch hot dogs,  burgers,  and meatballs. A “blend of wheat protein,  mushroom, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brad Miller, Elaine Watson, Glenn Hickman Barry Carpenter, Matt Ball, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Stephen Wells, Uma Valenti, Wayne Pacelle

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

How will the HSUS board respond to Wayne Pacelle’s shadow?

February 1, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Will Groundhog Day bring HSUS a change of climate? WASHINGTON D.C.––Groundhog Day,  February 2,  2018,  is likely to see the Humane Society of the U.S. striving to rid itself of the shadow left by thirteen-year president Wayne Pacelle. Pacelle is not expected to remain in office––or at least not for long––after a February 1 board […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Barbara J. King, Danielle Paquette, David Wills, Eric Bernthal, Holly Hazard, Jim Greenbaum, Merritt Clifton, Miyun Park, Paul Shapiro, 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

Bob Brown & Lisa Shapiro used marketing to help farmed animals

June 26, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Took starkly opposite market-based approaches Robert A. Brown, 82, and Lisa Shapiro, 51, who shared their concern for farm animal welfare but took starkly opposite market-based approaches to expressing it, died recently in Tucson, Arizona, and Boulder, Colorado. Brown can be credited with initiating the “happy meat” approach, seeking to reform agribusiness by developing competition from […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Anti-Cruelty Society, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Jack Norris, Lisa Shapiro, Nest Eggs, Paul Shapiro, Rambling Rose veal, Robert A. Brown, Seth Tibbott

Courting hen & egg producers leads animal charities into deep @#$%

June 24, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

The AHA and HSUS have each hit the other repeatedly with figurative volleys of rotten eggs          FRESNO, California––Which came first, the American Humane Association and Humane Society of the U.S. courting dances with hen and egg producers, or egg on the faces of spokespersons trying to explain the chicken poop outcomes? Frequently bitter rivals […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry, USA, Welfare Tagged With: AHA, Foster Farms, Hillandale Farms, HSUS, Karen Davis, Paul Shapiro, United Poultry Concerns, United Poultry Producers, Wayne Pacelle, Whole Foods Markets

Norm Phelps, 75, spiritual mentor to the animal rights movement

January 12, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

A vegan since 1984, Phelps quit eating meat in response to the death of his dog Czar Norm Phelps, 75, died on December 31, 2014 at the Meritus Health Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland. Phelps had battled myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune neuromuscular condition that causes severe fatigue and weakness, since 2002. A vegan since 1984, survived […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Humane history, Islam, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dalai Lama, Norm Phelps, Paul Shapiro

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