Desmond Morris’ ideas helped to form “animal rights” arguments, but Morris stood apart from the cause LONDON, U.K.––Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, an influence upon and fellow traveler with the animal rights movement for much of his life, but at odds with vegans and vegetarians, died on April 19, 2026, in Naas, County Kildare, […]
Live markets torture animals & perhaps poison people in your city too
by Eric Mills, coordinator, Action for Animals, Oakland, California. The San Francisco Commission of Animal Care & Control met on February 13, 2025. On the agenda: animal cruelty in the city’s many live markets, presented by the Washington, D.C.-based organization, Animal Outlook, replete with videos of the abuses and violations. The involvement of Animal Outlook, […]
Chinese bear bile industry is doomed by new products, science suggests
“Bio-transformed bear bile powder,” of non-bear origin, shows promise of overtaking the bear bile industry SHANGHAI, China––The good news for bears in China appears to be that the bad news reported recently by hunting writer Ted Williams via Animal Wellness Action is not quite as bad as it looks, based on scientific journal reports, […]
Dog-eating in China & Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice in Nepal both near an end
Decline of the activist & mass media exaggeration factors reflects the decline of the bloody realities BEIJING, KATHMANDU––Major good news out of China and Nepal on December 9 and December 11, 2024 came disguised to the point of invisibility for those unfamiliar with the details. Even as animal advocates wring hands and weep over sensational […]
The animal backgrounds of Trump cabinet nominees Rollins, Bondi, & McMahon
The Donald Trump cabinet appointee who should have animal history mostly does not WASHINGTON D.C.––Brooke Rollins, Pam Bondi, and Linda McMahon, among U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s latest cabinet nominees, bring to their nominations highly varied records pertaining to animals. Brooke Rollins, Trump’s prospective Secretary of Agriculture, if confirmed would become responsible for Animal Welfare […]
COVID killed 7 million people, but was not “the big one.” H5N1 might be.
Factory farming has already made H5N1 many times more potentially dangerous ROCKVILLE, Maryland––COVID 19, believe it or not, was not “the big one,” the long feared zoonotic disease outbreak potentially hitting both humans and animals as hard as the Black Death of the Middle Ages and the influenza pandemic of 1918. But the high […]
Rice “scaffold” gives China the lead in making affordable cell-cultured meat
China, South Korea, & Singapore race ahead in pursuit of the world’s biggest markets while livestock producers try to keep U.S., Europe, & Australia out of the competition BEIJING, China––The Chinese government newspaper Science & Technology Daily on July 1, 2024 announced that the Beijing Academy of Food Sciences’ China Meat Research Centre has resolved […]
House draft of Farm Bill hands control of U.S. humane standards to China
Ag committee chair Glenn “GT” Thompson acts to benefit of Chinese-owned Smithfield pork empire WASHINGTON D.C.––Pushing a 2024 Farm Bill provision that would gut state regulation of animal agriculture to the benefit of the Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods pork dynasty, House Committee on Agriculture chair Glenn “GT” Thompson covered his perfidy by hosting a March 20, […]
Life of Pei: the battle for compassion; my story and journey so far
by Pei Feng Su Lantern Publishing & Media P.O. Box 1350 Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The animal advocacy world knows Pei Feng Su as the intensely hard-working, politely amiable, fluently multi-lingual, supremely capable and outwardly poised founder of ACTAsia for Animals, a humane education society with offices in London, Taipei, and […]
Hong Kong busts expose scams, wildlife traffic, & dog-and-cat meat trade
Criminals don’t stop at just one type of animal & human exploitation HONG KONG; HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––Recent busts in Hong Kong brought crime, rabies, wildlife trafficking, illegal immigration, and the dog and cat meat trade together as never before––and more may soon follow. “Law enforcement agencies in Hong Kong have arrested four asylum […]