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 […]
Dog pack killing of 4-year-old, caught on video, shows need for ABC
20 years of India’s national Animal Birth Control program helps to quell rabies, but not to reduce dog attacks, because feeders continue to concentrate dogs in problematic places HYDERABAD, India––Video security cameras set up above a car repair garage in Amberpet, a 250-year-old suburb of 425-year-old Hyderabad, India, on February 19, 2023 shocked the nation […]
How Miyoko Schinner got the same shaft as Paul Watson
With vegan grease (See also Canned Miyoko: the ballad of Jon Blair & Miyoko Schinner.) The recent ouster of Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner from the vegan food company she founded in 2014 will come as no surprise to longtime Australian vegan activist Phil Wollen. Indeed, Wollen, also a former Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew […]
Veguary re-introduces Afro-Americans to plant-based eating
“Prominent throughout the African Diaspora for centuries” BALTIMORE, Maryland––Afro-Vegan Society founder Brenda Sanders on February 1, 2023 commenced the organization’s third annual Veguary campaign, “providing culturally relevant content on plant-based eating during Black History Month. “Throughout the month of February,” Sanders explained, “the Afro-Vegan Society will host free programming that includes daily social media content, […]
Roberta Kalechofsky, 90, interpreted Judaism in animal rights context
Took up animal advocacy in mid-career as author & publisher Roberta Kalechofsky, 90, author, animal advocate, educator, historian, and publisher, died on April 5, 2022 in hospice care in Chelsea, Massachusetts, near her longtime home in Marblehead, Massachusetts. ANIMALS 24-7, unfortunately, only learned of her death on January 26, 2023, necessitating this late obituary. Valued […]
Who shot pregnant harbor seals? Thomas Sewid encouraged it.
Seal hater even buys ammo for seal killers DINES POINT, Washington––Who apparently cruised along the east shore of Whidbey Island, Washington, shotgunning pregnant harbor seals on or about January 24, 2023 is as yet officially unknown. ANIMALS 24-7 spent much of January 26, 2023 examining the bloated, eagle-pecked remains of harbor seal victims, and […]
“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit
Building barn that burned was praised as “victory” by then-Humane Society of U.S. brass BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––A February 27, 2020 barn fire that killed 400,000 hens is now the subject of a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Rhode Island-based Factory Mutual Insurance Company against the barn builder, Henning Companies LLC of Johnston, Iowa. ANIMALS 24-7 […]
Sea pen fish farming ordered to cease along entire U.S. west coast
Washington forced shutdown follows bans in California, Oregon, & Alaska OLYMPIA, Washington––Sea pen fish farming––if Cooke Aquaculture complies with a November 18, 2022 order from Washington state public lands commissioner Hilary Franz––is within two weeks of abolition along the entire west coast of the United States. The Franz order, unfortunately, may not be a win […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21, 2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]
The “Thanksgiving” turkey: object of sentimentality, sarcasm, & sacrifice
Each year a litany of sarcasm accompanies the sentimentality of Thanksgiving by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “Nothing so unites us as gathering with one mind to murder someone we hate, unless it is coming together to share in a meal.” – Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner, p. 33. The […]
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