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Vegan Man hopes Florida jury will have it his way in case against Burger King

November 20, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Can expect to be grilled in cross-examination MIAMI,  Florida––Vegan Man on November 18,  2019 served notice on the Miami-based Burger King fast food chain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that he hopes to meet twelve Florida men––and Florida women––in a jury box soon,  with a judge presiding. Seeking class […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Abdi Latif Dahir, Chris Finazzo, Harish Bharti, Jack Norris, Joseph Connelly, Kim Bellware, Matt Ball, Merritt Clifton, Phillip Williams

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

June 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Humane history, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Amy Chozick, Gene Baur, Jasmin Singer, Libra Max, Marisa Miller Wolfson, Mary Balkin, Merritt Clifton, Paul Shapiro, Sharon Otterman

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

June 3, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Welfare Tagged With: Arpan Sharma, Chinny Krishna, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton, Varda Mehrotra

Heads & Tails, by Maneka Gandhi

June 3, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Laxmi Narain Modi, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton

Train speeding in the wee hours kills four elephants

April 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“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. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Azam Siddique, Bholu, Indian Railways, K.A. Sahki, Manoj Sinha, Merritt Clifton

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

March 5, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Isha Datar, Lou Reed, Mark Steer, Marta Zaraskanov, Merritt Clifton, Michael Pellman Rowland, Perumal Gandhi, Ryan Pandya, Solina Chau

Dog rescue on the slopes of Agung, Bali’s erupting “Mount Doom”

November 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

BAWA rushes to save animals beneath clouds of hot ash             UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia––More than 4.2 million people,  350,000 dogs,  and perhaps a million other animals from monkeys and chickens to goats and cattle,  plus wildlife,  are looking over their shoulders at a 30,000-foot column of steam,  smoke,  and ash boiling out of Mount Agung. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Indonesia, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Agung, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

Remove bees, wasps, or hornets without getting stung

August 26, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

First,  don’t go bugs by Merritt Clifton For years I was the fellow whom people would call for help when they had problems with bees and closely related species.  I never had much trouble handling bees,   wasps,  or hornets,  but even though handling them may not be hard,  there is not any one simple […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Bees, Beliefs, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Other, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Merritt Clifton

What Gau Rakshas, the ALF, & “pit bullies” have in common

May 9, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

“The difference between vigilantes and animal rights activists”          NEW DELHI,  India;  WASHINGTON D.C.––Responding to “animal rights violence” that has cost at least 10 human lives in two years,  the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations on May 7,  2017 spelled out “The Difference between Vigilantes and Animal Rights Activists.” Strongly worded as it was,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Editorials, Entertainment, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Opinions & Letters, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Daniel Andreas San Diego, Merritt Clifton, Narendra Modi, Pehlu Khan, Varda Mehrotra

Indian-style bullfights resume at urging of prime minister Nahrendra Modi

February 14, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Hindu nationalists defy Supreme Court & Animal Welfare Board of India          CHENNAI,  India––Stampeding bulls,  rampaging young men and the blood of both are again flowing through the streets of cities in participant bullfights called jallikattu conducted throughout Tamil Nadu state,  India. Held in the name of celebrating harvest festivals,  the resurrection of jallikattu represents […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Hinduism, Hooved stock, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: C. Vijaya Baskar, Nahendra Modi, Poorva Joshipura, R.M. Kharb

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