NAIA Articles
Animal Agriculture
The Red Cow: Bruce Was Born an Orphan
By Lana Kaiser | Published: 09/10/2012Bruce was born an orphan - a tough way to start a life, especially if you are a calf born 21 days early by caesarian section and expected to live in a barn in March in Michigan…
The Red Cow: The Blue Cow
By Lana Kaiser | Published: 07/9/2012From the time she was a calf, Blue stood out in the pasture…
Brave New World: The 2012 NAIA Conference
By Patti Strand | Published: 07/6/2012With presentations from world-renowned animal welfare authorities, award-winning writers, veterinarians, and experts in agriculture and law, this is the can’t-miss animal event of 2012!
Animal Legislation
Let’s Make Shelter Pets a Memory, not a Mascot
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/4/2013Celebrate the people involved in animal rescue and shelter work who dedicate their lives to saving lives, who come up with innovative ideas to find permanent homes for animals. Celebrate responsible pet owners. But don’t turn…
Legally Dog: a Brief Introduction
By Sara Chisnell-Voigt | Published: 01/14/2013Get to know NAIA’s newest contributor, Sara Chisnell-Voigt!
NAIA’s USDA Comments
By Patti Strand | Published: 08/15/2012NAIA’s comments to USDA APHIS regarding retail pet store and licensing exemptions.
Animal Research
Golden Age of Animal Research Ahead
By Dr. John Richard Schrock | Published: 03/12/2013A recently published report of the limitations of mouse models has been used by the HSUS to justify their drive to end all animal use in research. However, this report in PNAS was a further refinement of our knowledge concerning…
Animal Rights Extremism
Golden Age of Animal Research Ahead
By Dr. John Richard Schrock | Published: 03/12/2013A recently published report of the limitations of mouse models has been used by the HSUS to justify their drive to end all animal use in research. However, this report in PNAS was a further refinement of our knowledge concerning…
From the Skeptic Tank: An Animal Rights Primer
By Dr. Alvin Grossman | Published: 11/20/2012It’s time to leave the counterpunching to the boxers.
Guilt: It’s Not Just For Jews and Catholics Anymore (Purebred Dog Owners Can Play)
By Susi Szeremy | Published: 05/3/2012Guilt for owning a purebred dog? Welcome to the new elitism.
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare
From the Skeptic Tank: An Animal Rights Primer
By Dr. Alvin Grossman | Published: 11/20/2012It’s time to leave the counterpunching to the boxers.
Brave New World: The 2012 NAIA Conference
By Patti Strand | Published: 07/6/2012With presentations from world-renowned animal welfare authorities, award-winning writers, veterinarians, and experts in agriculture and law, this is the can’t-miss animal event of 2012!
Announcing the NAIA 2012 Conference!
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/12/2012Arm yourself with the facts: attend the NAIA 2012 Annual Conference!
Animal Sports
Animal Welfare
Brave New World: The 2012 NAIA Conference
By Patti Strand | Published: 07/6/2012With presentations from world-renowned animal welfare authorities, award-winning writers, veterinarians, and experts in agriculture and law, this is the can’t-miss animal event of 2012!
The USDA Proposed Rule and You
By Patti Strand | Published: 05/17/2012The comment period is open for 60 days, your input will make a difference!
Announcing the NAIA 2012 Conference!
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/12/2012Arm yourself with the facts: attend the NAIA 2012 Annual Conference!
Animals in Education & Entertainment
THE PERFECT COUNTRY AND WESTERN SONG
By Anna Sadler | Published: 01/15/2012How I wish I were a Country & Western songwriter. My mournful ballad would begin with a longing for the gool ol’ days when humane societies were actually humane, and when animal rights meant your beloved pet’s right…
TARGETING CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE TOLERATED
By Denny Bannister | Published: 01/15/2012“Isn’t it the parent’s right to know what’s being taught and who’s doing the teaching?”
ANIMAL ACTIVISTS TARGET CIRCUS
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/15/2012Congressman Sam Farr wants to ban elephants in circuses. Mayor Paul Schell of Seattle, Washington, wants his city to go a bit further and ban all wild animal acts at city facilities, and Redmond, Washington, enacted a circus animal…
Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: HIJACKING OF THE HUMANE MOVEMENT
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/15/2012“The humane movement has been hijacked, radicalized, and rerouted. Started more than 100 years ago, it was traditionally concerned with the humane treatment of animals. In the last 20 years, however, it has been taken over…
BOOK REVIEW: AT THE HAND OF MAN: PERIL AND HOPE FOR AFRICA’S WILDLIFE
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/15/2012While browsing the shelves of new books in my branch library a few weeks ago, I came across John Hoyt’s Animals in Peril: How ‘Sustainable Use’ is Wiping Out the World’s Wildlife.
BOOK REVIEW: BLOODTIES: NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE HUNT
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/15/2012Upon reflection Bloodties can be (and is being) used to justify both hunting and anti-hunting philosophies, depending on the reader’s preconceived notions about the issue. But readers who come to the book with an open mind…
Canine Issues
Brave New World: The 2012 NAIA Conference
By Patti Strand | Published: 07/6/2012With presentations from world-renowned animal welfare authorities, award-winning writers, veterinarians, and experts in agriculture and law, this is the can’t-miss animal event of 2012!
Deadline Looms: Send Your Comments to USDA APHIS!
By Patti Strand | Published: 07/2/2012You don’t need to be a lawyer or a policy expert in order to provide effective comments to USDA APHIS.
The USDA Proposed Rule and You
By Patti Strand | Published: 05/17/2012The comment period is open for 60 days, your input will make a difference!
Farm and Ranch Almanac
WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
By Janet Stevens | Published: 01/15/2012Robert Sproul, 83, never had anything quite like this happen to him before, not in 70 years of ranching the Grant County land around Mt. Vernon. His neighbor, on some sort of cockamamie crusade, had shot nearly a dozen of his cattle…
FARM AND RANCH ALMANAC MAY/JUNE 97
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/15/2012Fur sales were up five percent in the winter of 1996, according to a report from Southwick Associates and the Fur Information Council of America. Sales in fur garments rose by a half billion dollars, from $1.2 billion to $1.25 billion.
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NEIGHBORS FROM PIPKORN MINK RANCH
By Tom and Carol Pipkorn | Published: 01/15/2012In the early hours of October 26, our family became victims of the most cowardly sort of violence. As we slept in our safe beds, animal rights extremists “bravely,” like modern day disgruntled “Rambos,” released…
Feline Issues
Cats: “There Oughta Be a Law ...”
By Anna Sadler | Published: 01/11/2012n order for cities and towns to get a handle on solving any perceived problems with cats, they must first recognize that there are different types of cats. Perhaps the most foolish laws being entered on the books of cities and counties…
Trap, Neuter, Return Plans Provide a Practical Solution to Feral Cat Population Growth
By Bryan Kortis | Published: 01/11/2012The growing population of feral cats is fast becoming one of the top issues today in animal control and welfare. Estimates on their numbers run into the tens of millions in the US alone, and community after community now has to…
SFSPCA: Mandatory Cat Licensing: Ill-conceived and Ill-advised
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/10/2012The report begins with an indictment of the latest fad in animal control laws: The San Francisco SPCA has considered the various claims made for mandatory cat licensing legislation and has found little in the way of evidence - or…
From the Offices of NAIA
Raise Funds for NAIA through H&R Block’s Nonprofit Referral Program
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/8/2013Nobody enjoys tax season, but this year, new clients to H&R Block can feel good knowing they supported NAIA!
Staying Connected with NAIA
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/3/2013We wish you a fabulous 2013, and look forward to staying connected and working with you throughout the year!
Resolve to Support NAIA in the New Year!
By Patti Strand | Published: 12/29/2012Now you can support NAIA by searching the Internet, shopping online, or dining out!
Guest Editorial
Rescue
Florida SB 674: Signed!
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/26/2013Great progress in Florida for responsible rescues and pet owners!
Let’s Make Shelter Pets a Memory, not a Mascot
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/4/2013Celebrate the people involved in animal rescue and shelter work who dedicate their lives to saving lives, who come up with innovative ideas to find permanent homes for animals. Celebrate responsible pet owners. But don’t turn…
California Has to Stem the Tide of Dogs
By | Published: 01/30/2013California has a mess, and you all need to get your act together and clean it up instead of allowing someone else to do it for you.
Research Reports
The Little Girl Who Stumbled
By Robert Speth, PhD | Published: 02/12/2012The animal rights movement’s effort to place the rights of animals above those of humans concerns me. A recent book, Rattling the Cage, by Stephen Wise argues that chimpanzees should be granted legal standing; in other words,…
Federal Report Highlights Animal Rights Terrorism
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/12/2012“In July 1989, without warning, Animal Liberation Front activists entered a laboratory and office at Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas.”
PeTA Drops 10-year Campaign Against Gillette
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/12/2012After 10 years of demonstrations, fundraising, a letter-writing campaign by children, and a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ended its feud with The Gillette Company in December.
Shelter Issues
Florida SB 674: Signed!
By Patti Strand | Published: 04/26/2013Great progress in Florida for responsible rescues and pet owners!
LIFE’S UNPLEASANT JOBS
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/16/2012In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Gem Finch asked why his defense attorney father must take on a controversial court case. Gem was told, “There are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs.”
SIMPLE ACTS OF KINDNESS SAVE HUMAN AND ANIMAL LIVES
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/16/2012Hoarding is a phenomenon that most animal control agencies eventually encounter. It’s the situation where scores or even hundreds of neglected, sick and sometimes dying animals are found living in squalid conditions under the…
Uncategorized
Do Nine out of Ten Breeders Really Suck?
By Dr. Marty Greer, DVM, JD, NAIA President | Published: 02/14/2012It is unfair to paint all dog breeders - hobby breeders, backyard breeders, or commercial breeders - with a broad brush and assume that they are all cut from the same cloth.
NAIA APPLAUDS INHOFE BILL TARGETING ANIMAL RIGHTS TERRORISM
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/24/2012From our beginning in 1991, the National Animal Interest Alliance has worked for laws to protect animal enterprises from animal rights extremism.
HB189 Fixes Ohio’s Dangerous Dog Law
By Patti Strand | Published: 01/9/2012Update April 28, 2005: This bill has been sent to the Agriculture and Natural Resource Committee. Concerned dog owners need to contact their representative and the committee members below now.
Wildlife Journal
Animal Rights Activists Gloss Over Trapping Facts
By Stephen Vantassel | Published: 01/14/2012We at Wildlife Damage Control have no problem with developing traps and techniques that reduce animal pain and injury.
Book Review: Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt
By Norma Woolf | Published: 01/14/2012Upon reflection Bloodties can be (and is being) used to justify both hunting and anti-hunting philosophies, depending on the reader’s preconceived notions about the issue.
Book Review: Playing God in Yellowstone by Alston Chase
By Norma Bennett Woolf | Published: 01/14/2012A Harvest Book from Harcourt Brace & Company, New York;
393 pages, including a epilogue written three years after original publication
$14, trade paper
