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Who were the gurus who helped to inspire the animal rights movement?

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Spiritual mentors sold vegetarianism before most animal advocates dared mention it PUTTAPARTHI,  Andhra Pradesh,  India;  QUEENS, New York––Who were the unofficial gurus of the early animal rights movement,  who helped to sell vegetarianism,  in particular,  even before any major animal advocacy groups added a vegan or vegetarian component to their message? “Guru,”  in the Buddhist,  […]

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

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Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

Food & Justice, veg history to be proud of, & chickenshit in Kentucky

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What Brenda Sanders & Chinny Krishna don’t have in common with Sheriff John Root BALTIMORE, Maryland;  CHENNAI,  Tamil Nadu,  India;  London, Kentucky––Some people,  like Food & Justice web video host Brenda Sanders of Baltimore,  dedicate their lives to breaking down stereotypes and expanding the horizons of everyone around them. Some people,  like longtime Blue Cross […]

Bullfighting politics take sharp twists in India

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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,  […]

Maneka makes waves as animal welfare minister (November 1998)

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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

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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,  […]