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Bullfighting politics take sharp twists in India

February 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Bullfighting foes receive national honors even as Tamil Nadu state government drops charges against 26,450 bullfighting defenders & heads of both major national parties support  bullfights             CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India––Jallikattu,  the Tamil Nadu form of bullfighting in which mobs abuse the bulls as they run through the streets during harvest festivals,  on February 20,  […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Science Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dipak Misra, Merritt Clifton, Nahrendra Modi, Prani Mitra, R.M. Kharb, Rahul Gandhi

Maneka makes waves as animal welfare minister (November 1998)

November 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Moved rapidly on marine mammal exhibition, cattle transport, & wild-caught bird trade NEW DELHI––Contrary to Press Trust of India and New Zealand Press Association reports of October 7,  Indian minister for social justice and empowerment Maneka Gandhi did not ban animal experiments in India effective on October 8,  1998  but she did announce draft regulations […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Birds, Birds, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Ashoke Chatterjee, Chinny Krishna, Guman Mal Lodha, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton

Sperm-sorting comes to India through cow-loving Modi government

January 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Slippery business may stop the bull calf surplus          NEW DELHI,  India––Cracking down hard against illegal cattle slaughter and exports to slaughter,  while boosting milk production,  the Hindi nationalist Nahendra Modi regime ruling India since 2014 caused the perennial Indian bull calf surplus to explode. Now,  however,  the Modi government has reportedly […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amul, Anand Milk Federation, Eileen Weintraub, Help Animals India, Merritt Clifton, Mohandas Gandhi, Moraji Desai, Visakha SPCA

Gadhi Mai 2019: more animals killed than in 2014, but fewer people watched

December 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

But drone videos show––again––that the body count was vastly lower than is often claimed BARIYARPUR,  Nepal––More animals were slain at the 2019 Gadhi Mai sacrificial massacre in Bariyarpur,  Nepal,  than in 2014––a deeply disappointing discovery,  after 15 years of international efforts to stop the every-five-years bloodbath held in honor of a local goddess. Drone video […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Buddhism, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Gadhi Mai, Kitty Block, Manoj Gautam, Merritt Clifton, Uttam G.P. Dahal

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

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