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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 […]

Arun Rangsi, 39, “heart gibbon” of IPPL founder Shirley McGreal

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Arun Rangsi was living link to IPPL origins             SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“The International Primate Protection League is devastated to report the loss of our first lab gibbon, Arun Rangsi,  who was also my ‘heart gibbon,’”  IPPL founder Shirley McGreal posted to social media. Arun Rangsi was a living link to IPPL cofounder Ardith Eudey,  Ph.D.,  a […]

Jan Salter, 82, mastered the arts of animal & human aid in Kathmandu

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Founded leading Nepal humane organization past age when most people retire             KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Jan Salter,  82, artist,  humanitarian, and founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre in Nepal in 2004,  died in Lyme Regis,  United Kingdom,  on April 29,  2018. Word of her death did not reach ANIMALS 24-7 until nearly 90 days later. Born Janette […]

Animals In The Third Reich:   Pets,  Scapegoats,  and the Holocaust  

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by Boria Sax Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.,  (370 Lexington Ave.,  New York,  NY  10017),   2000. 206 pages,  paperback.  $19.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Hitler was a vegetarian,  probably in emulation of the composer Richard Wagner,   Boria Sax asserts,  but claims,  as vegetarian historian Rynn Berry and others have documented,  that “Hitler was probably […]

#DontGetMilked makes a splash in the heart of hypocritical cow worship

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Animal advocates wean themselves from the “gaushala” dairy tradition             NEW DELHI,  India––The billboard message “#DontGetMilked.  Ditch Dairy!  Go Vegan!” posted recently in Nehru Place,  New Delhi by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO),  is a crowd-stopper. It might not rate a blink, let alone a shocked doubletake from visiting American and European […]

Heads & Tails, by Maneka Gandhi

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People For Animals (A4 Maharani Bagh,  New Delhi 110 065,  India).184 pages,  paperback; 1993.  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12498154-heads-and-tails Reviewed by Merritt Clifton “I have always detested milk,”   Maneka Gandhi opined in the first line of her first syndicated column,  entitled “Milk,  Meat and Animal Violence.” “My son too refused to drink cow’s milk when he was weaned,”  she continued,  […]

Mike O’Connor & the Zen of saving the Olympic mountain goats

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Port Townsend author emerges as defender of mountain goats slated for extirpation “Attached is a copy of a flyer I have put together in defense of the mountain goats of the Olympic Peninsula,”  emailed Mike O’Connor of Port Townsend,  Washington,  on May 17,  2018,  in response to the May 8,  2018 ANIMALS 24-7 article Goat sacrifice to begin at Olympic National Park. “I […]

Train speeding in the wee hours kills four elephants

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“India ain’t big enough for both of us.”          KOLKATA, India––The Howrah-Mumbai Mail train in the wee hours of April 16,  2018 killed four elephants on the same stretch of track in Jharsuguda district,  Odissa state,  where two others died after falling into trackside ditches in separate incidents in September and October 2017. […]

A Perfect Day dawns for dairy cows, 7,000 years after domestication

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Brewing beer for 9,000 years, humans learn to brew milk without using cows or other mammals             BERKELEY,  California––Using fermentation to produce food and beverages apparently originated in China circa 9,000 years ago.  Keeping dairy cattle appears to have begun in Anatolia,  the eastern part of Turkey,  circa 7,000 years ago. The commercial dairy industry […]

Busted in 2016, “Tiger Temple” is reincarnated as “Golden Tiger Zoo”

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Too much gold in tigers for monks to stay out of the business KANCHANABURI,  Thailand––The notorious “Tiger Temple” in Kanchanaburi,  Thailand,  nominally closed when wildlife authorities impounded 147 tigers in May 2016, has reportedly been reincarnated as the soon-to-open Golden Tiger Zoo,  with 24 tigers acquired from the Mali Salika Tiger Zoo in Nakhon Nayok,  just […]