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Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

January 2, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Russian law protects Moscow State Circus monopoly             MOSCOW,  NEW DELHI––New legislation in Russia,  whose circuses have for almost a century been the most attended worldwide,  and in India,  where the circus tradition started,  appear to be among the final acts in several thousand years of traveling exhibitions of performing animals. The new Russian “Law […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Elephants, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Organizations, Russia, Show, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jacob Croninshield, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Chipperfield, Varda Mehotra, Vladimir Putin

#DontGetMilked makes a splash in the heart of hypocritical cow worship

June 3, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Arpan Sharma, Chinny Krishna, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton, Varda Mehrotra

Heads & Tails, by Maneka Gandhi

June 3, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Laxmi Narain Modi, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton

Train speeding in the wee hours kills four elephants

April 17, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

“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. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Azam Siddique, Bholu, Indian Railways, K.A. Sahki, Manoj Sinha, Merritt Clifton

“Bollywood” star Salman Khan sleeps on jail floor after 2nd poaching rap

April 6, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Poaching & trafficking, Screen industry, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Dev Kumar Khatri, Dominique Mosbergen, Merritt Clifton, Neelam, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu, Vikram Singh

Animals to humans: “Save us from things that go BANG!!! in the night!”

December 30, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, China, Cultural, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, India, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Phoebe Cook, Sarah Blackman, Stan Lai

Could non-leather Zoa make the majors in sports before fashion?

October 11, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Brian Gordon, Chinny Krishna, Diana Ratnagar, Jimmy Connors, Merritt Clifton, Michael Schwimer, Scott Carpenter, Vijay Merchant

Payments for predation losses spark alleged attempts to get away with murder

July 10, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Cultural, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Predators, Sheep & goats, Tigers, Uses of dogs, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: John Barnes, John Koski, Kalim Athar, Keshav Agarwal, Merritt Clifton

What Gau Rakshas, the ALF, & “pit bullies” have in common

May 9, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

“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,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Entertainment, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Daniel Andreas San Diego, Merritt Clifton, Narendra Modi, Pehlu Khan, Varda Mehrotra

Indian-style bullfights resume at urging of prime minister Nahrendra Modi

February 14, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Hinduism, Hooved stock, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: C. Vijaya Baskar, Nahendra Modi, Poorva Joshipura, R.M. Kharb

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