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Final Impact Report on Los Angeles TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”
(Beth Clifton collage) Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to neuter/return cat control LOS ANGELES, California––A single seven-word subheading in Chapter 3 sums up the...
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Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too
(Beth Clifton collage) Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban, & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor...
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Can killing an animal be compensated for by the creation of a new animal?
(Beth Clifton collage) 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...
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Dogs replace SOB in White House. Pro-animal legislative candidates fared well...
(Beth Clifton collage) More than 400 legislators endorsed by animal groups were elected or re-elected on November 3, 2020 WASHINGTON D.C.––President-elect and new First Lady Joe and Jill Biden, to...
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Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi
Former HSUS president Wayne Pacelle cut the deal that sacrificed thousands of pigeons to win passage of “Libre’s Law,” applicable to barely more than a dozen cruelty cases per year.(Beth Clifton...
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Philadelphia apologizes for killing African-American animal advocates
(Beth Clifton collage) What if the MOVE cofounders had attended Cambridge, or the Best Friends Animal Society cofounders had come from inner Philadelphia? PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania; KANAB,...
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Free Willy! six years later (June 1999)
Ric O’Barry Quick victory for Ric O’Barry OSLO, Norway––Responding on four days notice to a Japanese plan to capture four orcas in Norwegian waters, former Flipper trainer Ric O’Barry recently...
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A Traitor To His Species: Henry Bergh & The Birth Of The Animal Rights Movement
Reconception of A Traitor to His Species cover, by Beth Clifton. by Ernest Freeberg 322 pages, hardcover. $30.00. Basic Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104...
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How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years
(Beth Clifton collage) ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters, except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh, who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
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Indiana ruling may help L.A. woman now in critical from adopted pit bull
(Beth Clifton collage) Indiana Court of Appeals reinforces shelter duty to inform adopters of dogs’ past attacks LOS ANGELES, INDIANAPOLIS––Reports from Los Angeles indicate that a recent...
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Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky
(Beth Clifton collage) 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...
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Law protects birds from poaching but not oil spills, says Trump administration
(Beth Clifton collage) U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service makes “permanent” abdication of Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement against “accidental” bird kills WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish &...
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Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls
(Beth Clifton collage) But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft” WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump...
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Big Cat Public Safety Act clears House after Big Cat Rescue mauling
(Beth Clifton collage) Accident to volunteer emphasized need for the bill TAMPA, Florida; WASHINGTON D.C.–– December 3, 2020 began as a very bad day for Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin....
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How does anyone run a monkey through a washing machine by accident?
(Beth Clifton collage) Technicians at Oregon Health Sciences University, Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Harvard, & Bristol-Myers Squibb have managed to do it HILLSBORO, Oregon––An Oregon...
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Will anti-show horse soring bill pull up lame through last-hurdle compromise?
(Beth Clifton collage) What would Marty Irby, Wayne Pacelle & Lamar Alexander think if weighted shoes were on their feet? WASHINGTON D.C.––The last days of the 116th Congress, of opportunities to...
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Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife
(Beth Clifton collage) White Coat Waste Project challenges Veterans’ Administration studies, while Aussie scientists question value of their own cat-killing experiment WASHINGTON D.C., PERTH,...
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L.A. city council approves TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”
(Beth Clifton collage) Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to new Los Angeles neuter/return cat control program LOS ANGELES, California––The long-awaited Los Angeles Citywide...
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Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure
(Beth Clifton collage) The discovery does not improve the case for horses having survived the Ice Ages in the Americas CHIRIBIQUETTE NATIONAL PARK, Colombia––Images of ice age horses, among thousands...
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Alex Pacheco serves stale “Spay & Neuter Cookies” again for Christmas
(Beth Clifton collage) Pacheco says he eats them POMPANO BEACH, Florida––600 Million Stray Dogs Need You founder Alex Pacheco, who also cofounded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
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