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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 […]

The Body Shop to go “100% vegan” by 2023––but wasn’t it already?

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Expanding the gulf between image and reality is what the cosmetics industry is all about             LONDON, U.K.––Cosmetics and personal care industry media are abuzz with the June 1,  2021 announcement by The Body Shop that every product it offers will be 100% vegan by the end of 2023. Many consumers,  on the other hand,  […]

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

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Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz dies at 86

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Animal rights movement pioneer             SAN RAFAEL,  California–– In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz,  DVM,  “died peacefully on March 24th at the age of 86,”  the organization announced via Facebook on April 9,  2021,  after word of Katz’s death had percolated through the animal advocacy community for several days. “Dr. Katz was a trailblazer […]

Seaspiracy: seas, piracy, & Cowspiracy meet fishy business

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Fishing industry screams bloody murder Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Seaspiracy,  whose title is a fusion of “seas” and “piracy,”  and a play on Cowspiracy,  the 2014 independent blockbluster documentary also produced by Kip Anderson,  on March 24,  2021 premiered worldwide on Netflix. Within 10 days Seaspiracy had become a runaway hit,  seen by […]