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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

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

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

#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

Thin ice & few buyers for pelts, but Canadian sealers kill 60,000 seal pups anyway

April 29, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

2018 seal hunt close to the end ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Perhaps the surest sign that the annual Atlantic Canada seal hunt is fading into history is the lack of prominence it has had this spring in the St. Johns Telegram,  the leading media voice serving Newfoundland since 1879,  which through April 2018 had barely mentioned it […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Marine life, Politics, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ian Robichaud, Julia Page, Justin Trudeau, Merritt Clifton, Rejean Vigneau, Tristin Hopper

Rabies plummets in India while “experts” ignore the data

June 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Global Alliance for Rabies Control still says there are at least 120 times more rabies deaths than found by 14 years of annual body counts          NEW DELHI––New national rabies survey data from the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence,  the Indian equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, shows for the 15th […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Politics, Population control, Rabies, Science, Street dogs Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Eskild Petersen, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William Harvey

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

What if the U.S. Supreme Court ruled rodeo unconstitutional?

November 19, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

It happened in India!          NEW DELHI,  India––Imagine the U.S. Supreme Court resoundingly rebuking the Donald Trump presidential administration by holding rodeo to be unconstitutional,  regardless of how culturally entrenched it is among “red state voters,”  his support base. Difficult though it may be to imagine newly appointed U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions moving under […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Spectacles, Vegetarians & vegans, Working animals Tagged With: Chinny Krishna, Dipak Misra, Merritt Clifton, Nahrendra Modi, R.M. Kharb, Rohinton Nariman

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