Medical doctor John Wedderman quietly linked 759 Asian animal advocates into the beginnings of an international movement HONG KONG––Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83, among the most influential yet least well-known builders of the global animal rights and humane movements, died on November 25, 2024 at his retirement home in West Java, Indonesia. […]
Rice “scaffold” gives China the lead in making affordable cell-cultured meat
China, South Korea, & Singapore race ahead in pursuit of the world’s biggest markets while livestock producers try to keep U.S., Europe, & Australia out of the competition BEIJING, China––The Chinese government newspaper Science & Technology Daily on July 1, 2024 announced that the Beijing Academy of Food Sciences’ China Meat Research Centre has resolved […]
Will California catch up to Chinese regulation of bullfrog & turtle traffic?
California trails China, Singapore, Taiwan, & Hong Kong in regulation of frog & turtle sales at live markets SAN DIEGO, California––Meeting on December 13-14, 2023 at the Handlery Hotel in San Diego, the California Fish & Game Commission will be asked yet again to ban the import into California of live American bullfrogs and freshwater […]
Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?
Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
Eight hundred years of zoos in London
New book and 2004 volume detail the origins of zoos as we know them LONDON, U.K.––Scheduled for official publication by Viking/Pegasus on April 4, 2017, The Zoo: The Wild And Wonderful Tale Of The Founding Of London Zoo, by British television producer Isobel Charman, has drawn pre-publication raves from reviewers fortunate enough to receive […]
Why is cockfighting the blood sport most often linked to murder?
Cockfighting & murder occur together worldwide FORT WORTH, Texas––Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Deanna Boyd mentioned almost as an afterthought the murderous history of Robert Eugene Coleman, 56, one of three alleged cockfighters arrested on February 28, 2016: “Tarrant County court records show Coleman had previously been sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1998 […]
Horsewoman & horseman of the food Apocalypse
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming & the Truth About Our Food by Sonia Faruqi Pegasus Books (80 Broad Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10004; www.pegasusbooks.com); 390 pages, hardcover. $27.95. Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, CEO, Compassion In World Farming, with Isabel Oakeshott, political editor, […]
Bilked animal group of $19.4 million, gets 14 months
Landmark case in Singapore SINGAPORE––Convicted of defrauding the Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) of $26.5 million in Singapore dollars, former building contractor Tan Boon Kwee was on October 15, 2015 jailed for 14 months. Tan Boon Kwee was to have paid the sum, worth $19.4 million U.S. dollars, in damages […]
Singapore trafficker sentence puzzles ACRES president Louis Ng
“How does fine of less than 10% of the max send a message?” SINGAPORE––The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore on February 10, 2014 announced that Ong Ming Shiang, 33, had been fined a record $41,000 Singapore dollars (about $32,310 U.S.) for illegal possession of 32 smuggled […]
Singapore vegans to invade Los Angeles
Actually invaded San Francisco SINGAPORE––VeganBurg, a vegan fast food chain already operating five restaurants in Singapore, expects to open a branch in Los Angeles in October 2014, marketing and communications manager Katrina Hossen recently told the Straits Times. Husband-and-wife duo Alex Tan and Tracy Lim founded VeganBurg […]