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How humility can help animal advocates to change the world, by Ed Duvin

June 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Perspective of an old warrior Spending over a half-century in social justice movements, much of it consulting, I have formed some conclusions that did not come down from the mountaintop,  but merely represent the perspective of an old warrior. Were I to identify the most pernicious characteristics I have encountered among justice-seeking activists,  regardless of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Frances Power Cobbe, Immanuel Kant, Peter Singer, pit bull mommy, Plato, rescue angel, Socrates, Tom Regan

Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming

October 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21,  1947––October 13,  2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alice Herrington, Julie Christie, Myriam Alaux, Peter Singer, Victor Schonfeld

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

Can killing an animal be compensated for by the creation of a new animal?

November 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, president, United Poultry Concerns (with afterword by Merritt & Beth Clifton) There is a line of thought in moral philosophy that says “yes” to killing an animal,  so long as the animal lived a pleasant life and the method used to kill the animal is humane – quick and painless. This […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Carol Adams, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Patty Mark, Peter Singer

Plane crashes & slaughterhouses: who suffers more?

January 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Helpless in a cage by Karen Davis,  Ph.D.,  president,  United Poultry Concerns On January 8,  2020,  passenger flight 752, headed from the Iranian capital of Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev,  was shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, killing all 176 occupants,  including 167 passengers. The jet continued flying for […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: John Woolman, Karen Davis, Mark Slouka, Peter Singer, United Poultry Concerns

“Meat-eating is never neutral”: Mary Midgely, 99

October 19, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Author of Animals & Why They Matter             NEWCASTLE ON TYNE,  United Kingdom––“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral,”  wrote Mary Midgely on page 27 of her 1983 opus Animals & Why They Matter. “To himself,”  Midgely observed,  “the meat-eater seems to be eating life.  To the vegetarian,  he seems to be eating death.  There […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: David Midgely, Iris Murdoch, James Lovelock, Kate Rawles, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer, Tom Midgely, Tom Regan

Tom Regan, 78, made the case for animal rights

February 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Evolved from butcher to leading advocate of vegan philosophy          RALEIGH,  North Carolina–– Animal rights philosopher Tom Regan,  78,  died on the morning of February 17,  2017. “He had taken pneumonia last week,”  longtime family friend Bernard Unti told ANIMALS 24-7.   “The family was all with him,”  including Nancy,  Regan’s wife of more than 50 years,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Colin Smith, Ethel Thurston, Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Mohandas Ghandi, Nancy Regan, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature

November 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Part III of The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.;  see also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes! Very likely no president of the Humane Society of the U.S. ever looked forward to telephone calls from either Ann Cottrell Free or Henry Spira,  nine years younger, who emerged as a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Ann Cottrell Free, Henry Gitano, Henry Spira, James S. Free, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer

Why Fish Feel?

August 22, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Rediscovering long submerged origins ALEXANDRIA,  Virginia––The Showing Animals Respect & Kindness booth in the main hallway at the late July/early August AR-2015 conference was a crowd-stopper. Featured were one of the SHARK drones,  one of the most powerful lenses outside of top-secret military use mounted on a tripod,  and SHARK founder Steve Hindi,  with fellow […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Crustaceans, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Fish, Food, Humane history, Marine life, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Culum Brown, Fish Feel, Henry Spira, Mary Finelli, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer, Redouan Bshary, SHARK, Steve Hindi

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