Bill to reduce cockfighting from felony to misdemeanor cleared the Oklahoma House & is now before the Oklahoma Senate OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––A bill to allow individual Oklahoma counties to reduce cockfighting from a felony to a misdemeanor is halfway to becoming law, despite overwhelming opposition from Oklahoma voters. House Bill 2530, by state representative Justin […]
One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon
by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon, a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years; developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation; and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, the first chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.) John James […]
What Miyoko’s Creamery lawsuit alleges Miyoko Schinner did
& what a few other good lawyers think of the case SONOMA, California––Perhaps the most surprising part of Miyoko’s PBC vs. Miyoko Schinner, the lawsuit filed on February 16, 2022 by Miyoko’s Creamery against the ousted founder of the company, is the demand for a jury trial. As a legal ploy, that makes sense: […]
Miyoko’s Creamery sues Miyoko Schinner for allegedly stealing recipes
Would Miyoko’s Creamery exist without Miyoko Schinner’s recipes? SONOMA, California––Perhaps the only dairy product for which Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner, 65, never tried to develop a vegan alternative was bullshit. Post-Miyoko, however, the Miyoko’s Creamery management team who ousted her appears to be moving fast to corner the market on vegan bullshit. On […]
Canned Miyoko: the ballad of Jon Blair & Miyoko Schinner
Dog-eat-dog is not vegan (See also How Miyoko Schinner got the same shaft as Paul Watson.) SONOMA, California––Miyoko’s Creamery founder Miyoko Schinner, 65, on February 16, 2023 officially got the unceremonious boot from the vegan cheese company she started in 2014 as Miyoko’s Kitchen and built into a $260-million-per-year non-dairy food-making empire. Of course the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nellie Saiom Shriver, 80, introduced Alex Hershaft to vegan activism
Eccentric midwife to the animal rights movement AKRON, Ohio––Nellie Saiom Shriver, among the most dynamic early orchestrators of the late 20th century animal rights movement, died on January 12, 2023 at the Copley Nursing Health Care Center in Copley, Ohio. “I don’t know how much time I have,” Nellie Shriver, Saiom to friends, emailed to […]
Conservatism, the religious right, & the evolution of anti-vivisectionism
The right & left hands of anti-vivisectionism have rarely known what each other were doing Included in the recent ANIMALS 24-7 article What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was a mention that during King’s lifetime, 1929-1968, “Anti-vivisection activism had become co-opted by the radical right and was seemingly intertwined […]
What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Leading influence on rise of animal rights movement Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible direct involvement with animals or animal issues––but he is justly remembered among the greatest influences on the animal rights movement of our time, and the many […]