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, […]
India top court: “No dogs in schools, hospitals, stadiums, & bus/train stations”
India Supreme Court ruling updates & extends ruling against dog-feeding in high-traffic public places NEW DELHI, India––A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 2025 ordered that stray dogs be removed and excluded from educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, railway stations, and other government buildings. The Supreme […]
Christine Townend, 81, founded the animal rights movement in Australia
Animal Liberation was only the second explicitly “animal rights” organization in the world Christine Townend, 81, remembered by Animal Justice Party member of the New South Wales legislative council Emma Hurst, 44, as “essentially the founder of the entire animal rights movement in Australia,” died from Parkinson’s disease in Leura, New South Wales, on August […]
Why is Vantara hiring flacks & lawyers instead of just explaining itself?
Vantara founder Anant Ambani may have good reasons for doing things differently from the international conservation establishment, but he has not done a good job of explaining why JAMNAGAR, India––Somewhere between 5,000 and 7,500 years ago, Biblical tradition and Mesopotamian texts have it, a man named Noah built a huge ark, he claimed under orders […]
Robots to the rescue of Indian temple elephants!
Technology challenges a cruel pre-technology custom that originated with the Buddhist prescription for kindness to retired working animals CHENNAI, India––Thirty-five years after U.S. inventor Douglas Malewicki in 1989 built the 40-foot-tall flame-spewing Robosaurus, thrilling and terrifying exhibition crowds as an apparent real-life Godzilla ever since, Nanditha Krishna, author of The Sacred Animals of India, on […]
The Fourth of July, Diwali, the Big Bang, & entropic dissolution of the universe
Fourth of July fireworks are not the end of the world, but animals do not know that ANIMALS 24-7 has a version of the Big Bang Theory, which holds, quite apart from theories about the origin and eventual end of the universe, that few human activities, involving animals or anything else, are more pointless, useless, […]
Pro-animal teachings in Islam made available free to the world
Animals In Islam, 2nd edition From Al-Ma’arri (973-1057) to ABA Masri (1914-1992) by Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri with foreword by Syed Rizvi 165 pages, paperback. “This book is published for non-commercial and free distribution in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society, and Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights to create […]
Animal welfare history in Madras/Chennai & why it matters to the world
History of the Animal Welfare Movement in Madras/Chennai by Prashanth Krishna C.P.R. Publications c/o C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, 1 Eldams Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018, India Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Prashanth Krishna, author of History of the Animal Welfare Movement in Madras/Chennai, writes from the long shadows of his parents, 60-year Blue Cross of India […]
Sacred Animals of India, by Nanditha Krishna
Random House, India Order c/o: https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Animals-India-Nanditha-Krishna-ebook/dp/B06XYRH996#:~:text=Animals%20are%20worshipped%20in%20India,are%20thus%20sacred%20by%20association 2008. 244 pages, illustrated. $14.00 U.S. Kindle; $14.95 paperback. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Sacred Animals of India, continuously in print now for 15 years, “was to have been ready in time for the Asia for Animals conference held in January 2007 at Chennai,” prefaces author Nanditha Krishna. “However, when […]
The USDA “milk mandate”: a black-&-white issue on school lunch trays
Bill to reform the USDA “milk mandate” could save 21,500 calves per year born to cows milked for the National School Lunch Program WASHINGTON D.C.–– The title of the Addressing Digestive Distress in Stomachs of Our Youth (ADD SOY) Act offers little hint that it might be considered either a civil rights bill or an animal […]