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Who were the gurus who helped to inspire the animal rights movement?

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Spiritual mentors sold vegetarianism before most animal advocates dared mention it PUTTAPARTHI,  Andhra Pradesh,  India;  QUEENS, New York––Who were the unofficial gurus of the early animal rights movement,  who helped to sell vegetarianism,  in particular,  even before any major animal advocacy groups added a vegan or vegetarian component to their message? “Guru,”  in the Buddhist,  […]

The animal rights movement is divided on abortion, by Vasu Murti

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Even PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk admits “We’re divided” The long-awaited introduction of RU-486-based contraceptive dog and cat food has been delayed for at least 36 years,  and may have been permanently forestalled by the use of RU-486 as Mifrepristone,  the drug used to medically induce abortion,  as ANIMALS 24-7 recently detailed in What RU-486 means […]

Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?

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by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns “Without guilt improvement is drastically diminished.” – Thomas Coates, Facebook comment, November 22, 2021 The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people,  perhaps many, uncomfortable,  though not necessarily because of guilt.  People […]

Four court cases lost amid the Rittenhouse/Arbery media blitz

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Even coverage of the $15 million Elijah McClain settlement mostly omitted the vegan aspect Court news dominated mass media during the two weeks preceding Thanksgiving 2021,  but key developments in three cases long followed by ANIMALS 24-7 barely cracked even local news lineups. Coverage of a fourth case,  a $15 million settlement between the City of Aurora,  […]

Kaporos chicken rescue brings New York City a smile on 9-11-2021

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Rare good news on a grim anniversary             NEW YORK,  N.Y.––Twenty years after al Qaida terrorists on September 11,  2001 hijacked four airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan,  killing 2,763 people,  tens of thousands of New Yorkers awakened to a good news story. About […]

Charges in police killing of veg animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

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32-count criminal indictment names three cops & two paramedics             AURORA, Colorado––The August 30,  2019 forced ketamine overdose death of animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain,  23,  who declared his belief in vegetarian nonviolence with his dying breath,  on September 1,  2021 at last brought criminal charges against the three police officers and two paramedics in […]

Miyoko court win: the world doesn’t owe Big Dairy a living

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Dairy industry can kiss Miyoko’s vegan butter,  says judge SAN FRANCISCO, California––Jiminy Cricket!  The world doesn’t owe the dairy industry a living,  and Miyoko’s Creamery,  of Petaluma,  California,  does not need to change its advertising and product labeling just because the dairy industry would rather play the bull fiddle in court and before legislatures than […]

If plants have feelings, how does this affect our advocacy for animals?

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by Karen Davis, PhD, president of United Poultry Concerns Can a tree be “strategically responsive, and exhibit kinship, or a sense of self? Is a tree intelligent?” ––Rebecca Giggs, “The Trees Are Talking,” The Atlantic, July /August 2021,  published online as A Better Way to Look at Trees. This intriguing article in The Atlantic recounts […]

Credibility,  GAP?  Global Animal Partnership 10 years later

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Farm Forward,  a former booster,  finds GAP approach bassackward––& is scarcely alone AUSTIN,  Texas––What a difference ten years of Global Animal Partnership have not made for factory-farmed animals! Indeed,  the biggest visible change associated with Global Animal Partnership [GAP] may be that Farm Forward has split with it. A faith-linked farmed animal advocacy organization,  Farm […]