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COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food

April 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But preserving profits, “red state” votes,  and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern             SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28,  2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dave Dreeszen, Donald Trump, Esther Mechler, John Tyson, Merritt Clifton, Roger Witherspoon

How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

September 5, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Use of dogs against protesters may mark turning point in pipeline campaign (Part II of two parts.  See also Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock.) FORT YATES,  North Dakota––History may in the long run favor the Dakota Access pipeline,  or a modified and re-routed version of it.  But history is unlikely to […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Native American beliefs, Police & military, Religion & philosophy, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Bull Connor, Dakota Access, LaDonna Braveheart Allard, Merritt Clifton, Roger Witherspoon, Sitting Bull, Whitestone Massacre, William T. Hornaday, Wovoka

Film “Indian Point” shows how nukes hit river life

April 27, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Stars endangered Atlantic sturgeon BUCHANAN, New York––Debuting at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and rapidly advancing to the 2015 Tribecca Film Festival, the Ivy Meerpool documentary Indian Point features environmental journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife, anti-nuclear power activist Marilyn Elie; former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko, who was forced to resign after […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Fish, Marine life, Wildlife Tagged With: Ivy Meerpool, Marilyn Elie, Riverkeeper, Roger Witherspoon

EPA urges power plants to quit cooking fish & crustaceans alive

May 27, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“You have to look at the impact on aquatic life”             WASHINGTON D.C.––Acting on behalf of at least 2.1 billion sentient beings per year who are pureed or boiled alive,  to little public notice,  the Environmental Protection Agency on May 19, 2014 issued final rules for water use in the cooling systems of electrical generating […]

Filed Under: Crustaceans, Fish, Marine life, Wildlife Tagged With: EPA, Mary Finelli, Nancy Stoner, Roger Witherspoon

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