Horseracing Wrongs In the 4th at Belmont today, “Fancy Persuasion…bolted outwards…while bobbling and taking bad steps against the stout restraint of the rider, had the rider nearly stand up restraining his charge…before falling over the hedge separating the two turf courses.” We now know that she “fell over the hedge” because, in the words of…

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CARE2 CAUSES | Oreo and Ritz Cracker Producer Drops Palm Oil Suppliers Linked to Deforestation 13.1K https://www.care2.com/causes/oreo-and-ritz-cracker-producer-drops-palm-oil-suppliers-linked-to-deforestation.html 13.1Ktweet00email157 By: Susan Bird December 3, 2018 About Susan Follow Susan at @ItsSusanBird If you’re ecologically-minded, you probably already know how the production of palm oilravages the environment. Perhaps you’ve even been boycotting products that…

Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chief-warns-paris-climate-goals-64047151 ByAYA BATRAWY AND MALAK HARB, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Jun 30, 2019, 12:04 PM ET The Associated Press United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, right, follows the UAE Youth Minister, Shamma Al Mazrim as they take the stage at the opening ceremony of the…

  Killing brown people in perpetual wars is genocide.     Before the Armory came into being, I was publishing Notes on my Facebook profile which I called political grenades, weapons to be wielded in the war for animal rights. Those modest apothegms and observations have grown to over twenty five hundred grenades and articles.…

Horseracing Wrongs A “commentary” in Monday’s Paulick Report, presented with my replies in bold… “Don’t Let Animal Rights ‘Terrorists’ Make Horse Racing Go The Way Of Circus Elephants” – by Alan Pincus, an attorney in Pennsylvania “I went to work at the track in 1965 because of my abiding love for horses. No one can…

  I laughed out load when Booker criticized drug companies!       Before the Armory came into being, I was publishing Notes on my Facebook profile which I called political grenades, weapons to be wielded in the war for animal rights. Those modest apothegms and observations have grown to over two thousand grenades and…

Horseracing Wrongs The Delaware Park stewards have finally (the minutes for the day in question were missing for weeks) confirmed the death of Game Lad in the 4th May 27 – officially, “#4 euthanized LF bilateral sesamoid fracture.” Equibase had the 6-year-old as “went wrong,” which almost always means dead. In that same race, Equibase…

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JUNE 27, 2019 by MANUEL GARCÍA, JR. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/27/american-climate-change-policy-you-dont-matter/ Photograph Source: Sven Kindler of German artist Hermann Josef Hack’s World Climate Refugee Camp in Hannover displaying 600 small climate refugee tents – CC BY 2.0 de The pickin’ and the choosin’ of the winners and the losers of Climate Change was all set from…

Biden supports our wars.   Before the Armory came into being, I was publishing Notes on my Facebook profile which I called political grenades, weapons to be wielded in the war for animal rights. Those modest apothegms and observations have grown to over twenty five hundred grenades and articles. In addition to regular articles, the…

Horseracing Wrongs Facing ever-increasing demands for transparency – most especially from diligent journalist Caitlin McGlade and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting – the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has agreed to release the names of its dead horses, and they’re doing it publicly on the Commission website. While it is unclear whether all kills (notably,…