Frog-giggling defender had apparently not read either Leviticus 11:3–8 or Deuteronomy 14:3–21, both of which forbid eating frogs. SMITHVILLE, Tennessee––The DeKalb County Young Farmers & Ranchers annual frog-gigging contest, arguably the most bizarre of the hundreds of wildlife killing contests held in the U.S. each year, has elicited one of the most bizarre defenses […]
How factory farming, livestock disease, & vaccination evolved together
How the Dutch developed vaccines instead of obeying the Pope Regular readers of ProMED-Mail, the information bulletins provided around the clock since 1994 by the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, may have noticed how often the first warnings of outbreaks in Europe come from the Netherlands––along with the first recommendations for control measures, and often […]
Norm Phelps, 75, spiritual mentor to the animal rights movement
A vegan since 1984, Phelps quit eating meat in response to the death of his dog Czar Norm Phelps, 75, died on December 31, 2014 at the Meritus Health Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland. Phelps had battled myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune neuromuscular condition that causes severe fatigue and weakness, since 2002. A vegan since 1984, survived […]
South Korean activists protest against eating dogs during Papal visit
In South Korea, not only are many Catholic priests fans of dog meat, they often encourage their congregation to go out and eat dog meat and even sell dog meat at their church bazaars. Fed up with their hypocrisy, members of several animal rights groups in South Korea protested on August 18, 2014 when […]