Animal advocates wean themselves from the “gaushala” dairy tradition NEW DELHI, India––The billboard message “#DontGetMilked. Ditch Dairy! Go Vegan!” posted recently in Nehru Place, New Delhi by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO), is a crowd-stopper. It might not rate a blink, let alone a shocked doubletake from visiting American and European […]
Heads & Tails, by Maneka Gandhi
People For Animals (A4 Maharani Bagh, New Delhi 110 065, India).184 pages, paperback; 1993. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12498154-heads-and-tails Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “I have always detested milk,” Maneka Gandhi opined in the first line of her first syndicated column, entitled “Milk, Meat and Animal Violence.” “My son too refused to drink cow’s milk when he was weaned,” she continued, […]
Train speeding in the wee hours kills four elephants
“India ain’t big enough for both of us.” KOLKATA, India––The Howrah-Mumbai Mail train in the wee hours of April 16, 2018 killed four elephants on the same stretch of track in Jharsuguda district, Odissa state, where two others died after falling into trackside ditches in separate incidents in September and October 2017. […]
“Bollywood” star Salman Khan sleeps on jail floor after 2nd poaching rap
World’s 9th best-paid actor dodged conviction since 1998 JODHPUR, Rajasthan, India–– “Bollywood” macho-man movie star Salman Khan, 52, dodging poaching charges for nearly 20 years, was on April 5, 2018 convicted for at least the second time of allegedly poaching two endangered chinkara gazelles, on September 26 and 27, 1998. Four other “Bollywood” stars accused […]
Animals to humans: “Save us from things that go BANG!!! in the night!”
Concern each year soars & fades with the rockets Ushered in with the traditional fusillade while animals cringe and whimper, rolling around the world from the first cruise ships firing rockets across the International Dateline, through Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, North America, and finally Hawaii, 2017 will go out with a bang too, just […]
Could non-leather Zoa make the majors in sports before fashion?
Two high-tech sporting goods pioneers think so COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.; CHENNAI, India––If sports are the testing ground for style, then Modern Meadow Inc., makers of Zoa brand cultured leather, should be pleased as punch with reader response to the ANIMALS 24-7 feature article No animals skinned to make new Zoa “biofabricated” leather, published on October 9, 2017. […]
Payments for predation losses spark alleged attempts to get away with murder
Schemes meant to save lives may be “gamed” for profit PILIBHIT, India; MADISON, Wisconsin; KALAMAZOO, Michigan––As many as seven alleged murders in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve of northern India, near the border of Nepal, may help to spotlight a fatal flaw in schemes to pay compensation for wildlife depredation, already evident in the U.S. […]
What Gau Rakshas, the ALF, & “pit bullies” have in common
“The difference between vigilantes and animal rights activists” NEW DELHI, India; WASHINGTON D.C.––Responding to “animal rights violence” that has cost at least 10 human lives in two years, the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations on May 7, 2017 spelled out “The Difference between Vigilantes and Animal Rights Activists.” Strongly worded as it was, […]
Indian-style bullfights resume at urging of prime minister Nahrendra Modi
Hindu nationalists defy Supreme Court & Animal Welfare Board of India CHENNAI, India––Stampeding bulls, rampaging young men and the blood of both are again flowing through the streets of cities in participant bullfights called jallikattu conducted throughout Tamil Nadu state, India. Held in the name of celebrating harvest festivals, the resurrection of jallikattu represents […]
Snehal Bhatt, “The Cobra Girl of Gujarat,” dies at 55
Made famous by The Snake Wranglers Snehal Bhatt, 55, made famous worldwide as “The Cobra Girl of Gujarat” by the second episode of the National Geographic reality television series The Snake Wranglers, died in her sleep from a heart attack in the early morning hours of January 23, 2017 at her home in Vadodara, Gujarat, […]
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