December 26, 2022


Dear Friends and Supporters,

As usual, SHARK has accomplished so much for the animals that we have to break up our year-end email update into parts. You can go online and see the entire mailer at one time here.




SHARK and the Humane Farming Association’s efforts against cockfighting are resulting in shutdowns, lawsuits, federal busts and convictions. Kentucky, Oklahoma, Illinois, California,  Alabama, Ohio, Texas and more states are feeling our efforts directly, and the ripple effect of our efforts is shaking up the illegal cockfighting industry throughout the nation and beyond.  

Federal Bust of Kentucky Cockfighters

A small part of Easterling’s criminal operation


SHARK Exposed Their Massive Criminal Operation,
Now Seven Cockfighters Plead Guilty to Federal Charges

As you will recall, SHARK exposed the Easterling's cockfighting and
rooster breeding operation in August 2020. In October 2021, the Feds busted them.

Brent Colon Easterling

On August 11, 2022, cockfighters and gamefowl breeders Brent
Colon Easterling, George William Easterling, and five other
members of their family pleaded guilty to federal and state of
Alabama charges filed in 2021 as “conspiracy to violate federal anti-animal fighting laws, including operating fighting pits on their properties, possessing thousands of fighting animals, transporting those animals across the globe for fighting, and trafficking in cockfighting implements.”

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The main pigeon shoot SHARK focused on in 2022 was the notorious Philadelphia Gun Club. SHARK investigators filmed a shoot at the gun club in April, capturing horrific acts of animal cruelty and a complete disdain for 
human life, as the wealthy and politically connected members of the gun club openly flouted cruelty laws. These sociopaths just didn’t care about anything other than slaughtering small birds for fun.

Children are often used to capture
and kill wounded birds at pigeon shoots

The President of the gun club is Edward Bruce DiDonato. DiDonato is an optometrist who has deep ties to Rider University in NJ, including having a lecture hall named after him, and being listed as a Director of the University. 

SHARK released a video calling out Rider for this relationship, not just because of the heinous animal cruelty, but because over the past ten years, gun club members have attacked female activists who were protesting the club. This includes disgusting verbal harassment that was targeted at a woman and pigeon shooters driving their vehicles at female activists. DiDonato himself used his SUV to harass a woman who filmed him. Shockingly, Rider President Gregory Dell’Omo has refused to even respond to this important issue. Money, it seems, matters more to Rider than morality.

Just some of the many dozens of wounded pigeons SHARK has rescued over the years at pigeon shoots

Please contact Rider President Dell’Omo and ask that he dissolve all relationships between Rider and DiDonato:

Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: 609-896-5001

Victory! The Alameda County Board of Supervisors held their meeting to
discuss and vote on an ordinance to ban Wild Cow Milking at rodeos.

SHARK supplied video from our decades of rodeo documentation which proved the abuse, injuries, and death suffered by rodeo’s animal victims.

                                           A terrified cow being forcibly milked during
                                           the "Wild Cow Milking" event at a rodeo in
                                           Alameda County, CA

On September 20, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors held their meeting and voted to ban Wild Cow Milking events in Alameda County!

Thank you to everyone who helped to make this possible for the brutalized and terrified cows!




A new book by Pauline Marie Gambill examines SHARK President Steve Hindi's work fighting for animals.

"The FOX FEATS and SHARK TALES of Pollution Fighter James F. Phillips and Animal Rights Warrior Steven O. Hindi is an extensive and absorbing look at the lives and achievements of two courageous and fearless individuals...The book delves into the early lives of Phillips and Hindi and looks at what drove them to a fierce and relentless dedication to their causes. Their journeys were not without serious and dangerous obstacles, and—in Hindi’s case—even resulted in physical injury. In addition to the telling of the men’s intriguing histories, visual images provide an important peek into their lives and work.”

You can find the book on Amazon.com. Please note that neither SHARK nor Steve Hindi receive any money from the sale of this book.