Schinner likely to focus on The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko SONOMA, California––Eleven months after the venture capitalists controlling the Miyoko’s Creamery board of directors in June 2022 greased the skids for founder Miyoko Schinner, three months after the board on February 16, 2023 publicly sacked and sued her, prompting her March 16, 2023 countersuit, […]
Supreme Court split verdict on California pig law sets up another round
California “wins” right to enforce ban on sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation stalls, but Justice Kavanaugh tells agribusiness how they might reverse the decision WASHINGTON D.C.––Rendering a decision split more ways than a pork belly by a supermarket butcher, with little consideration of pig suffering but a great deal of attention to […]
Dog meat farmers’ protest reflects grassroots success in South Korea
Home-grown anti-dog meat campaign succeeds where boycotts, petitions, & bashing failed for 40 years SEOUL, South Korea––About 50 people on April 25, 2023 straggled through the streets of Seoul, the national capital of South Korea, in a protest about dog-eating. Animal advocates’ events often attract much bigger crowds these days. These protesters were among […]
Joey Nelson, not prosecuted for cruelty to cattle, does triple life for murder
After starving nearly 1,000 calves, Nelson shot two creditors & burned their bodies KANSAS CITY, Missouri––If Garland Joseph “Joey” Nelson, 28, had been promptly prosecuted and sentenced for animal neglect and abuse committed in the name of cattle ranching more than five years ago, he might still be in prison, seeking parole. Nelson instead […]
How meat & dairy “won the fall,” but Tofurky kicked ass in courtroom judo
Tofurky shareholders won “upward of $50 million” too HOOD RIVER, Oregon––Vegan judokas may particularly appreciate a recent combination of swift moves by the Toyko-based dairy company Morinaga Milk Group, now owner of The Tofurky Company. On April 12, 2023, Morinaga won the key points in a landmark federal case over vegan and vegetarian product labeling […]
Why we don’t suggest eating bugs instead of beef, pork, chicken, & fish
Insects may be sentient, but sentience is not the most realistic reason to not eat them LAUSANNE, Switzerland––Probably most of us in the English-speaking world, when very small and still unduly trusting, heard someone say “Open your mouth and shut your eyes, and I’ll give you something to make you wise,” did so, and had […]
Speeding boater tried to hit sea lions on the Columbia River near Portland
Frustrated would-be salmon fisher suspected, but not yet caught PORTLAND, Oregon––The Oregon State Marine Board, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration––as well as ANIMALS 24-7, many other concerned media, and countless outraged private citizens––are all hunting for an as yet unidentified individual who on April 3, 2023 was caught […]
Soi Dog Foundation shuts down a Vietnamese cat slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse operated in open defiance of 1998 cat meat ban HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––“In a ground-breaking victory against the dog and cat meat trade in Vietnam, a cat slaughterhouse has been forced to cease operations,” announced Soi Dog Foundation director of international advocacy Rahul Sehgal in a March 23, 2022 appeal to potential donors. […]
Miyoko’s Creamery had no “true trade secrets,” testifies Miyoko
“Denies that the company had proprietary recipes” in response to lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO, California––Vegan cheesemaker Miyoko Schinner, in her newly filed response to the Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit against her for allegedly stealing trade secrets, “denies that the Company has any true ‘trade secrets,” and “denies that the company had ‘proprietary recipes.’” Fired in June 2022 […]
Starring Miyoko Schinner in “The Decline & Fall of the Dairy Empire”
The Romans imagine they are still in charge while the Visigoths & Ostrogoths fight over the spoils of conquest SAN FRANCISCO, California––Imagine the U.S. dairy industry as the Roman empire, Miyoko Schinner as Alaric the Visigoth, who sacked Rome in 410 A.D., and the venture capitalists who ousted her from Miyoko’s Creamery in a recent […]