Veronica Cane

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

Australia's under-16 social media ban proposal is raising significant ethical questions about online anonymity, privacy and concerns about the process that will be used to identify a users age.

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Big Food Faces First-of-A-Kind Lawsuit for Making Kids Sick with Ultra-Processed Products A teenager has sued major companies like Coca-Cola and Nestlé for allegedly causing illnesses in kids with 'addictive' ultra-processed foods.

A teen in the US has sued Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Kraft Heinz, Mondelēz International and seven other Big Food corporations for engineering ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to be as addictive as cigarettes. #opcanary

The Big Food corporations used the tobacco industry’s strategies and specialists to target children, and according to lawyers they especially targeted “black and hispanic children, with integrated marketing tie-ins with cartoons, toys and games, along with social media advertising.”#opcanary

If I had time/money/energy/etc. I'd love to do in-depth research going through more historical articles/books & interviewing Blacks & Latinos outside my circles/platf. & write about this. In the meantime, I collect info & hope others will investigate/ask questions too. Thanks for listening!

The racialization of Pit Bulls by those who supposedly care about Blacks and Latinos but IMO are using us to protect dogs from regulations has led to some advocates maybe misguidedly making some problematic comparison between race and breed too. evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I say older African Americans & Latinos to check Dickey & Delise's narratives. I think they actually pushed the racialization of Pit Bulls. Delise leveraged Vick's arrest to start the narrative. Her book is available online for free. Find it and fact-check it against primary sources too.

Sorry I brought u into the fold. I saw ur last name and my not yet caffeinated brain almost started writing to you in Spanish despite u clearly not identifying as Latina. I apologize again but also ask u to speak w/ older Latinos & African Americans abt how they feel re: Pit Bulls being "our dogs."

Read up on BFAS and the AFF/NCRC, their history and how they work. Why does a dog breed need a lobbying organization that uses the same playbook the tobacco industry and more recently Purdue Pharma used?

*Alleged* threats. She might have been yelled she was a liar by victim advocates or those who knew about Pit Bull history, but she spun it into it being dangerous to write about the dogs.

I'm not asking you to just believe what I'm saying. I'm asking you to go through primary sources available through the Library of Congress, Hathi Trust, Newspapers.com, Google Books, etc. and fact-check her, too, and especially to fact-check quotes from her book before sharing them.

I don't know what your experience as a Latina is, but my experience as a Latina old enough to remember the 80s & who also lived in predominantly Black neighborhoods for many years, was that Dickey was full of it & that's why I started fact-checking her book.

YouTube video by The Fifth Estate Pit Bulls Unleashed: Q&A - The Fifth Estate

This is a follow up Q&A: youtu.be/u8qmJxTOu_E?...

YouTube video by The Fifth Estate Pit Bulls Unleashed: Should They Be Banned? - The Fifth Estate

Canada's CBC didn't address Dickey's claims about the history of the Pit Bull or race, but spoke with a Pit Lobby rep, a plastic surgeon, animal activists, and victims about the bite data.
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Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers On Breed Specific Legislation – How Snopes Left Out Crucial Information Written by:  Heather Clemenceau You might not be aware that Snopes is one of the oldest websites around, and one of the original ways skeptics would meet online and discuss their skepticism way bef…

This is an article on how fact-checking got a bit shady in 2016:
heatherclemenceau.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/f...

This is what I'm referring abt regarding threats: indyweek.com/culture/art/...

Qui veut sauver les pitbulls ? - La Presse+ Les deux camps – pro- et anti- pitbulls – ne se livrent pas seulement à une guerre d’études. En 2010, les promoteurs des pitbulls ont détourné vers leurs sites le trafic internet destiné à l’associati...

Dickey, I'm sure than on advice by the Pit Bull lobby, was very smart in saying she'd received death threats & that it was all about racism b/c it painted any criticism as racial hatred & made ppl scare to speak up lest they were treated as racist.
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Dog Adoptions Gone Bad | It is very curious that Bronwen Dickey never interviewed or mentioned the grandfather historian of pit bulls in her book | Facebook It is very curious that Bronwen Dickey never interviewed or mentioned the grandfather historian of pit bulls in her book. Please go here to watch this fascinating Youtube interview that contradicts a....

There is a strong lobbying organization that's been working on rewriting the history of America's fighting dog & sadly, money talks. This is from another person who in 2016 questioned how Dickey didn't include Stratton, another well-known figure in the APBT world:
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Book Publishing, Not Fact-Checking Readers might think nonfiction books are the most reliable media sources there are. But accuracy scandals haven't reformed an industry that faces no big repercussions for errors.

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Why do publishers refuse to fact-check nonfiction? | American Libraries Magazine Emma Copley Eisenberg writes: “From reading up on the subject and talking to friends who had published books of nonfiction, I knew that I would be responsible for hiring and paying a freelance fact ch...

It's sad, but nonfiction books don't get fact-check by publishing houses & people who write book reviews most of the time don't fact-check either.
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I shared a link to JL Colby's 1936 book. Why would he address the bad reputation of the breed & say, as people say now, that the breed was misunderstood, if the breed reputation had been as great at the time as Dickey claimed?

Why doesn't coverage from the time doesn't align with her narrative?

Article clipped from The Cincinnati Enquirer Clipping found in The Cincinnati Enquirer published in Cincinnati, Ohio on 9/21/1947.

This 1947 art. talks about the EBT as well as the PIt Bull Terrier -APBT/Staffordshire Terrier (now AST). Read the last paragraph: www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Take a look at other clippings in these profiles:

www.newspapers.com/profile/jpc9...

www.newspapers.com/profile/JPC2...

#Bluecrew #Resistance #Resist #HereToStay

Article clipped from St. Louis Globe-Democrat Clipping found in St. Louis Globe-Democrat published in St. Louis, Missouri on 6/16/1889.

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dogs_for_defense_wilkesbarre_19430703 Clipping found in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 7/3/1943. dogs_for_defense_wilkesbarre_19430703

While she shows a pic from AP archives featuring bull terriers in the military, they were the exception rather than the rule. Neither English Bull Terriers nor APBT/AST were breeds among the preferred military breeds: www.newspapers.com/article/wilk...

These are some of the sources I checked:

hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

www.loc.gov/pictures/sea...

wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/c...

digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/m...

She also misrepresented the war propaganda postcard as issued by the U.S. military but I couldn't find any proof of it. It seems it was a privately created propaganda and the use of a fighting dog was fitting.

Dickey not only ignored the incidents & breed specific ordinances passed in the early 20th century, but also left out the connection Pit Bulls have had & still have to white supremacy:

adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/pit-bull

www.splcenter.org/fighting-hat...

www.thedailybeast.com/a-pitbull-re...

Article clipped from Brooklyn Eagle Clipping found in Brooklyn Eagle published in Brooklyn, New York on 7/24/1932.

More on Boston Terriers:
www.newspapers.com/article/broo...

books.google.ca/books?id=4-E...

www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

www.boston.com/culture/ente...