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Miyoko to dairy farmers:  “Don’t have a cow,   man!”

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“Nuts to you each morning!”             DALLAS,  Texas;  SONOMA,  California––Almost simultaneously in mid-November 2019,  Dean Foods declared bankruptcy,  leaving 12,000 dairy farmers across the U.S. potentially up Manure Creek without a butter churn,  and Miyoko’s Creamery,  one of the fastest-growing makers of nut-based alternatives to cheese and butter,  announced that in early 2020 it will […]

Pit bull kills guest in home of HSUS Connecticut state rep Anne Hornish

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Hornish claims fatal attack was only an “enthusiastic” greeting SUFFIELD, Connecticut–– Even after Dexter the alleged pit bull/pointer mix fatally injured Janet D’Aleo,  95,  on November 6,  2019 in the home of Anne Hornish,  Connecticut senior state director for the Humane Society of the U.S.,  Hornish remained in adamant denial about the threats pit bulls […]

Uttam Dahal, 33, was dynamo for animals in Nepal despite ill health

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Dahal won 2014 Supreme Court of Nepal case against Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice             KATHMANDU, Nepal––Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center founder Uttam G.P. Dahal,  33,  died on July 26, 2019 after battling illness for most of his brief but dynamic life. Dahal left Santana Sharma,  his wife of just two years and two months,  […]

Three veg fun foods that terrify the animal-based food industry

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Impossible Burgers, cell-cultured ice cream, & goldfish crackers––& goldfish crackers may scare the animal-based food industry most of all             EMERYVILLE, California––Now you can order vegan Impossible Burgers to be delivered for a midnight meal,  as thousands of people have already done. As of July 11,  2019,  you could have real vegan ice cream for […]

Whaling harpoons Icelandic tourism & the whole nation suffers (UPDATE!)

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Iceland suspends whaling after ANIMALS 24-7 exposes how killing whales wounded a whale-watching industry that brings in twice as much money             REYKJAVIK, Iceland––The two remaining Icelandic whaling companies,  Hvalur,  killing fin whales,  and IP Útgerð,  killing minke whales,  on the afternoon of June 27,  2019 jointly announced that they will not go whaling this year,  […]

Activist Mary Max, 52: maxed out as artist Peter Max, 81, peters out

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Suicide by nitrogen asphixiation             NEW YORK,  N.Y.––Animal advocate and philanthropist Mary Max,  52,  wife of pop artist Peter Max,  was on June 9,  2019 found dead in their apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City from allegedly self-induced nitrogen asphyxiation,  a bag-over-the-head method described by Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphrey in […]

Beyond Meat: supermarket invasion trips vegan police alarms

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“Plant-based patties” accepted as “meat”––& that scares the meat industry too             OAK HARBOR, Washington––The entire future of animal agriculture and plant-based alternatives flashed before our eyes a few days ago at the Safeway supermarket. Nobody died,  certainly no animals,  but that was just the point. We were at Safeway buying groceries a few minutes […]

More Than A Meal:  The Turkey in History,  Myth,  Ritual,  and Reality

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by Karen Davis, Ph.D. Lantern Books (One Union Square West,  Suite 201,  New York,  NY  10003),  2001. 192 pages,  paperback.   $14.95 c/o https://www.upc-online.org/merchandise/book.html Reviewed by Merritt Clifton             Looking back nearly 30 years to 1990,  the two most significant animal advocacy events of the year were––as expected––the first March […]

Are kosher & halal slaughter bans anti-Semitic & Islamophobic?

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Animal advocacy, religious teaching, & cultural insecurity collide in Belgium             BRUSSELS,  Belgium––Is Belgium moving rapidly to ban slaughter without pre-stunning out of concern for animals,  or are prohibitions of the traditional kosher and halal slaughter methods rooted in latent anti-Semitism and Islamophobia? Slaughter without pre-stunning becomes illegal Whatever the political truth is,  legal reality […]