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Roberta Kalechofsky, 90, interpreted Judaism in animal rights context

January 29, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Judaism, Lab animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Recipes, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Charles Patterson, Jews for Animal Rights, Merritt Clifton, Micah Press, Richard H. Schwartz, Robert Kalechofsky

The animal rights movement is divided on abortion, by Vasu Murti

December 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Even PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk admits “We’re divided” The long-awaited introduction of RU-486-based contraceptive dog and cat food has been delayed for at least 36 years,  and may have been permanently forestalled by the use of RU-486 as Mifrepristone,  the drug used to medically induce abortion,  as ANIMALS 24-7 recently detailed in What RU-486 means […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Andrew Linzey, Cesar Chavez, Charles Camosy, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Gregory, Frank Hoffman, Ingrid Newkirk, James Dawson, Kristen Day, Mary Eberstadt

Kaporos chicken rescue brings New York City a smile on 9-11-2021

September 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Rare good news on a grim anniversary             NEW YORK,  N.Y.––Twenty years after al Qaida terrorists on September 11,  2001 hijacked four airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan,  killing 2,763 people,  tens of thousands of New Yorkers awakened to a good news story. About […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Allie Feldman Taylor, Bearded Vegans, Donny Moss, Kaporos, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Aptman, Mikey Dee, Pattrice Jones

Israel “fur ban” is among last gasps of “lame duck” Netanyahu regime

June 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Ban to take effect––if it ever does––six months after Netanyahu government leaves office             JERUSALEM,  Israel––Israeli environmental protection minister Gila Gamliel,  appointed on May 17,  2020 by “lame duck” prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu,  on June 9,  2021 capped her year in office by signing a regulatory amendment that bans the sale of fur by the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Israel, Judaism, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gila Gamliel, Jane Halevy, Merritt Clifton

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

Has the world-wide vegan revolution started — in Israel?

January 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The Vegan Revolution. Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism by Richard Schwartz Lantern Publishing & Media, 2020. Reviewed by Keith Akers Any other book titled The Vegan Revolution,  if one didn’t look at the subtitle,  would not necessarily seem to have anything to do especially with Judaism or Israel.  But from page 1 forward,  Richard Schwartz […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Keith Akers, Richard H. Schwartz

 “Cleansing the temple was an act of animal liberation” says Bible scholar

December 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living & Nonviolence In Early Christianity by Keith Akers Lantern Books  (128 2nd Place,  Garden Suite Brooklyn, NY 11231),  2001.  260 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Denver vegetarian advocate Keith Akers, perhaps best known for compiling A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983), earned his B.A. in philosophy in 1970 at […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Humane history, Islam, Judaism, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: al-Ghazali, Keith Akers, Merritt Clifton, Pope Francis

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments,  below. Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]

Filed Under: Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Judaism, Lab animals, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Geoffrey Deckers, Marion Bienes, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Shirley McGreal

Poland moves to ban fur farms & kosher/halal meat exports––why?

September 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Proposed law may be more about Catholic nationalist politics,  anti-Semitism,  and COVID-19 than about concern for animals             WARSAW, Poland––Is a new omnibus animal protection law recently proposed in Poland really all about animals,  driven in part by concern that mink farming may be a reservoir for the pandemic COVID-19 coronavirus? Or is the proposed […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Poultry, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Ben Cohen, Bogna Wiltowska, Herve Bercovier, Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech Kaczyński, Merritt Clifton, Slawomir Sierakowski, Witold Waszczykowski, Yardena Schwartz

Shimon Shuchat, 22, & Dick Goddard, 89, had animal advocacy in common

August 8, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

New York City activist & Cleveland weather forecaster were each legends in their spheres             NEW YORK CITY,  CLEVELAND––One of the youngest prominent animal advocates in the Northeastern U.S.,  Shimon Shuchat,  22,  and one of the oldest,  Dick Goddard,  89,  died a week apart,  on July 28 and August 2,  2020,  in New York City […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Judaism, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alex Hershaft, Bernard Unti, Donny Moss, Karen Davis, Matthew McGowen, Mei Zheng, Nadia Schilling, Rina Deych, Vincent Di Santo

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