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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

Did Nagaland ban dog meat, or did a politician just repeat an empty promise?

July 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Advocacy groups in 2020 again claim the same “victory” they claimed in 2016––which never happened             KOHIMA, Nagaland, India––Two weeks after Nagaland chief secretary Temjen Toy on July 3,  2020 announced an impending ban on dog meat,  in the last part of India where dogs had been legally eaten,  how,  when,  and if the ban […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Anuradha Sawhney, Azam Siddique, Brinda Upadhyaya, Dolly Kikon, Tejal Shah, Temjen Toy

“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror

May 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders             BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet,  known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,”  generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests,  suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Bees, China, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Japan, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Sweeney, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Tam Garland

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

Cassowary victim had helped to spur ostrich-&-emu boom

April 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“See the gentle cassowary On the plains of Timbuktu Eating up the missionary Hat and coat and hymn-book too.” Attributed to Theodore Hook  (1788-1841)             HIGH SPRINGS,  Florida––Remembering the cassowary rhyme from childhood,  and that “Cassowaries are found mainly in Australia and New Guinea.  Never in Africa!”,  International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Other, Poultry, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Christopher Kofron, Darren Naish, Marvin Hajos, Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Theodore Hook

Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best

August 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6,  artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia/Pacific, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, China, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Judaism, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Pollution, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Turkeys, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Alex Felsinger, Andrew Zollman, Anne Barnard, Christian Zhang, Clarence Birdeye, Heather Greenhouse, Lore Croghan, Patty Lee, Tom Embury-Dennis

#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

A Perfect Day dawns for dairy cows, 7,000 years after domestication

March 5, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Brewing beer for 9,000 years, humans learn to brew milk without using cows or other mammals             BERKELEY,  California––Using fermentation to produce food and beverages apparently originated in China circa 9,000 years ago.  Keeping dairy cattle appears to have begun in Anatolia,  the eastern part of Turkey,  circa 7,000 years ago. The commercial dairy industry […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Isha Datar, Lou Reed, Mark Steer, Marta Zaraskanov, Merritt Clifton, Michael Pellman Rowland, Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya, Solina Chau

Monsoon floods threaten animals below the Himalayas

July 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Devastation along one of the world’s longest yet most remote rivers  GUWAHATI,  ASSAM,  INDIA––Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains pelting the southeast side of the Himalayas,  believed to be symptomatic of global warming,  have for the fifth year in a row triggered deadly landslides and caused the Brahmaputra river and tributaries to overflow their banks. More than […]

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