Toll of 307 is magnitudes of order less than alleged by global organizations NEW DELHI, India––The bad news from Singh Baghel, Indian minister of state for health and family welfare, is that rabies killed 307 people in India in 2022, the highest confirmed death toll according to Central Bureau of Health Intelligence data since rabies […]
Who to blame for animal diseases killing humans? Report says it’s U.S.
Harvard Law School and NYU Center for Environmental & Animal Protection deliver a shocker for most Americans (but not for you!) “For many Americans, concepts such as ‘bushmeat’ or ‘wildlife farming’ seem foreign,” opens Animal Markets & Zoonotic Disease in the United States, “but they refer to practices that are common within the United States […]
Animal disease research returning to science, away from hunt for blame
Has COVID-induced bat-shit craziness run its course? NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––More than three years after COVID-19 hit the U.S., killing nearly 1.2 million Americans and 6.9 million people worldwide, animal disease research appears to be at last returning to a focus on science, away from the highly politicized hunt for someone to blame. The […]
Pigeon racing is animal abandonment!
by Elizabeth Young, founder, Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions with afterword, How pigeon flying lost the way, by ANIMALS 24-7 Every day hundreds of domesticated pigeons are transported miles from their homes and “released” to try and fly back for human entertainment. These domestic birds have no survival skills: no ability to find food or water or […]
For auld lang syne: last ANIMALS 24-7 obituaries of 2022
John Neville Hare, Mark Stanley-Price, Faith Maloney, & Vivienne Westwood The camel man John Neville Hare, 88, died on January 28, 2022, but ANIMALS 24-7 did not learn of his death until almost a year later. Born in Bexhill, Kent, Hare became acquainted with working camels as a British army officer assigned to the Royal […]
International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87
Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt CAPE COD, Massachusetts––Brian Davies, 87, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Network for Animals, the Political Animal Lobby, and Animal Survival International, died after a prolonged illness on December 27, 2022. Born on February 4, 1935 in Tonyrefail, Wales, an impoverished mining village, […]
Monkey-laundering? Busts of lab suppliers follow 15 years of warnings
Wild-caught macaques may have flooded into U.S. labs for more than 15 years before the feds moved to stop the traffic HONG KONG–Did a small amount of monkey-eating in southern China cover for the development of large amount of monkey trafficking from the wild to U.S. labs? ANIMALS 24-7 and the International Primate Protection League […]
Lab animal supplier Inotiv allegedly sold smuggled monkeys
Company hits trifecta: alleged monkey-trafficking, mass neglect of beagles, & accused of stock fraud MIAMI, Florida––It isn’t easy to get caught in the middle of the biggest monkey-smuggling case associated with biomedical research, the biggest beagle neglect case in the history of vivisection, and the alleged biggest pump-and-dump stock-selling scandal to hit biomedical research investors, […]
Acquittal of “open rescue” activists rattles factory farms from Utah to China
Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung & co-defendant Paul Picklesimer were prosecuted for “stealing” two piglets left to die ST. GEORGE, Utah––Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung, defending himself, and co-defendant Paul Darwin Picklesimer, represented by veteran Salt Lake City lawyer Mary Corporon, were on October 8, 2022 acquitted by jury on all charges pertaining […]
Animal advocacy “Robin Hood” Gil Michaels dies at 80
Michaels put $40 million into animal causes, but was convicted of toner cartridge scam that netted more than $126 million, according to the federal Department of Justice. VAN NUYS, California––Gilbert N. Michaels, 80, founder of the Compassion for Animals Foundation and Animal Guardians, died on August 19, 2022, while on compassionate release from a four-year […]