Martyred lion (See also Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia and How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters.) Cecil, poached in Zimbabwe in early July 2015, was not a lion who martyred human saints, but rather a lion who became a martyr in the classic sense […]
Why Fish Feel?
Rediscovering long submerged origins ALEXANDRIA, Virginia––The Showing Animals Respect & Kindness booth in the main hallway at the late July/early August AR-2015 conference was a crowd-stopper. Featured were one of the SHARK drones, one of the most powerful lenses outside of top-secret military use mounted on a tripod, and SHARK founder Steve Hindi, with fellow […]
Humane Society of Canada stripped of charitable status
President allegedly bought comic books with society money OTTAWA––The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal on August 19, 2015 upheld a November 17, 2014 decision to revoke the charitable registration of the Humane Society of Canada, formally called the Humane Society of Canada for the Protection of Animals and the Environment. An advocacy organization, the […]
The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer: Vivisection & the Emergence of a Medical Technocracy
by Roberta Kalechofsky, Ph.D. Micah Publications (225 Humphrey St., Marblehead, MA 01945), 2009. 230 pages, paperback. $22.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Visiting with the renowned author Roberta Kalechofsky and her husband Bob at the recent AR-2015 animal rights conference in Alexandria, Virginia, I recalled and mentioned to her The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer, my favorite among […]
Gadhi Mai sacrifices stopped
HSUS & HSI victory claims omit mention of those who won the fight KATHMANDU, Nepal––Under pressure of a Supreme Court of Nepal injunction won on November 24, 2014 by the Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center, “We have decided to completely stop the practice of animal sacrifice,” Gadhi Mai Temple Trust secretary Motilal Prasad […]
Smart money bets on bio-cultured meat
Facebook & Google financiers say animals are not the future of agribusiness BROOKLYN, SAN FRANCISCO, HONG KONG––Some leading edge investors in agribusiness with long successful histories are betting big-time that the future of animal agriculture will no longer involve raising animals. Li Ka-Shing, for example, the richest man in Asia, with net worth of […]
Bob Brown & Lisa Shapiro used marketing to help farmed animals
Took starkly opposite market-based approaches Robert A. Brown, 82, and Lisa Shapiro, 51, who shared their concern for farm animal welfare but took starkly opposite market-based approaches to expressing it, died recently in Tucson, Arizona, and Boulder, Colorado. Brown can be credited with initiating the “happy meat” approach, seeking to reform agribusiness by developing competition from […]
Living the Farm Sanctuary Life
by Gene Baur & Gene Stone Rodale Press & Raincoast Books (33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18098), 2015. 320 pages, hardcover. $29.99. Reviewed by Beth Clifton “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” ––VICTOR HUGO (French novelist) Living the Farm Sanctuary Life […]
Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle woos anti-gay evangelist
by Lee Hall Barrett Duke, a founding fellow of the Research Institute at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, on March 17, 2015 received accolades from Humane Society of the United States president Wayne Pacelle in his personal blog “A Humane Nation.” Explained Pacelle, “It’s part of my commitment, and that of […]
North Carolina ends gassing
Once the most common fate of pound animals, carbon monoxide gassing is now nearly history RALEIGH, North Carolina––The last dogs and cats in North Carolina to be killed in animal shelter gas chambers died as anonymously toward the end of February 2015 as most of the 21 million or thereabouts before them. Gassing dogs […]