Turkeys are first condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 25, 2024 “pardoned” the turkeys Peach and Blossom […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21, 2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]
Sluggish on getting the lead out: feds again play pro-hunting politics
Sluggish on getting the lead out: feds again play pro-hunting politics WASHINGTON D.C.–– The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service still isn’t getting the lead out. And is not about to, in view that both major U.S. political parties continue to kiss the portions of hunters’ anatomy where lead continues to accumulate in regulatory posteriors. (See […]
Smokey Bear meets galloping goats in the fire-prone California foothills
“Only ewes can prevent forest fires.” Goat ewes, that is. And bucks help too. SACRAMENTO, California––Should goat herders whose goats nibble brush to prevent forest fires be paid like farmworkers, sheep herders, or firefighters? What’s in it for the goats? Communities, private landowners, and government agencies throughout California are preoccupied, as the summer 2023 fire […]
Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover, by Rynn Berry
Pythagorean Publishers (P.O. Box 8174, JAF Station, New York, NY 10116), 2004. 81 pages, paperback. $10.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rynn Berry, the late historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society, who died on January 9, 2014 after collapsing during a New Year’s Eve jog in New York’s Central Park, established his reputation as […]
Winning for coyotes & beaver, lawyers turn to the missing lynx
Cases signal that wildlife killing methods may be restrained under the Trump administration, but critical habitat will go unprotected BOISE, Idaho––Winning a settlement against U.S. government agencies on behalf of furbearing wildlife for the fifth time in six months, Center for Biological Diversity attorney Collette Adkins and co-plaintiffs WildEarth Guardians, the Humane Society of […]
How the Twin Towers fell on animals too
The impact of 9/11 (Part 3 of a four-part series. See also The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate; How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy; and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) Discussion of “invasive species,” a term practically invisible in mainstream print before 1988, rose in 1993 coincidental with […]