Company hits trifecta: alleged monkey-trafficking, mass neglect of beagles, & accused of stock fraud MIAMI, Florida––It isn’t easy to get caught in the middle of the biggest monkey-smuggling case associated with biomedical research, the biggest beagle neglect case in the history of vivisection, and the alleged biggest pump-and-dump stock-selling scandal to hit biomedical research investors, […]
“Cultural” defenses for charreada & cockfighting crumble
Two charreada promoters busted in Boone County, Illinois; Burmese cockfighting ring busted in Wells County, Indiana; Los Angeles close to banning bucking straps & prods GENEVA, Illinois––Suspecting persons involved in an October 23, 2022 charreada rodeo had been charged with cruelty, but previously unable to obtain the details, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on November […]
Horse defenders ask, “Where are the Cheshire cats of equine advocacy?”
Barn-sour big groups leave the hard work to Lone Rangers Fighting the horse’s rear ends promoting the horse racing industry, rodeo, and “Big Lick” horse exhibition, Political Animals founder Sherry DeBoer, Action for Animals founder Eric Mills, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi, and Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty founder Clant […]
Exposed in California & Illinois: the most perverse events in rodeo
“Wild cow milking” goes down for the count in one of last major venues, but fight to ban steer-tailing has barely begun OAKLAND, California––A proposed ban on wild cow milking, the only rodeo event known to have been invented by an alleged philandering pederast, is only a second reading from final approval by the Alameda […]
Beagle breeder Envigo shortchanged shareholders too, lawsuit alleges
Wolf of law firm files class action against alleged “pump-&-dump” scheme CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Even as animal advocates celebrate the ongoing rescue of beagles from the soon-to-be-closed Envigo breeding kennels in Cumberland, Virginia, and the decision of Air France to get out of the monkey transport business, the most influential blow to animal use in biomedical research […]
Who told the Atoka County cockfighters the cops were coming?
“From Atoka, head to Redden & turn right” STRINGTOWN, Oklahoma––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi imagined on June 26, 2022 that Atoka County sheriff Tony Head took seriously his oath of office to enforce the laws of the State of Oklahoma, including the state law making cockfighting a felony. Hindi had tipped Head’s […]
The Envigo beagle case: loose ends & lessons for animal advocates
Bad as the Envigo kennels are, many animal shelter facilities are no better CUMBERLAND, Virginia––Much of the attention of the animal advocacy world, as this is written, is focused on the impending evacuation of 4,000-odd beagles from the Envigo kennels, formerly the LabCorp kennels, formerly the Covance Kennels. (See 4,500+ beagles freed from laboratory use […]
How to hang cockfighting high––and finish the job!
by Steve Hindi, founder, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) launched our “Crush Cockfighting” campaign in 2018. Cockfighting at that time had never been seriously impacted by animal advocacy, contrary to myths spread by those raising money off the issue. Cockfighting has twice been made illegal nationwide. The first time […]
“Here they came to snuff the rooster” in Cantrell country, but SHARK saved him
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness stops yet another big cockfight STRINGTOWN, Oklahoma––”Here they came to snuff the rooster,” to paraphrase the best known song by “Alice In Chains” guitarist Jerry Cantrell, the most famous of the 410 residents of Stringtown, Oklahoma. Yet more than 60 carloads of cockfighting enthusiasts barely saw any roosters snuffed on […]
Is the ivory-billed woodpecker––declared extinct five times––still with us?
Or have scientists just held a seance? TALLULAH, Louisiana––“Multiple lines of evidence indicate survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana,” insist a nine-member team in a newly posted paper by that name. The lineup of co-authors, headed by Steven C. Latta, director of conservation at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, […]
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