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Beauty Without Cruelty-India exposes Gadhi Mai scam

February 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Multi-year investigation PUNE, India––Gullible opponents of the Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice in Nepal have inadvertently helped the priests behind it to scam some of the poorest people in the world, a multi-year investigation by Beauty Without Cruelty India has discovered. Held approximately every five years in Bariyarpur, Nepal, 26 kilometers from the border with Bihar […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Right, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: BWC-India, Compassionate Friend, Gadhi Mai, Rajeev Sethi

Taiwan adopts plan to become no-kill nation by 2017

January 25, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Bans killing impounded dogs TAIPEI, Taiwan––The Taiwanese legislature, the Legislative Yuan, on January 24, 2015 adopted 25 revisions to the 1998 national Animal Protection Act that are intended to make Taiwan a no-kill nation. The revisions includes a ban on killing impounded dogs, to take effect in 2017. The ban resembles laws in effect in […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Taiwan Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Sean McCormack, Wu Hung

Hindu “Festival of the Sun” Makar Sankranti cuts birds out of the skies

January 20, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

As deadly as opening day of bird hunting season MUMBAI, PUNE, AHMEDABAD––Preliminary estimates indicate that fewer birds were killed or injured by kite strings during Makar Sankranti 2015 than a year earlier, but the annual Hindu “Festival of the Sun,” observed on January 14 this year,  remains perhaps as deadly to birds over western India […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Middle Right, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Other spectacles, Religion & philosophy, Spectacles, Wildlife Tagged With: Ahmedabad, Makar Sankranti, Merritt Clifton, Rahul Sehgal

Norm Phelps, 75, spiritual mentor to the animal rights movement

January 12, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Humane history, Islam, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dalai Lama, Norm Phelps, Paul Shapiro

Would-be duckling rescuer is sentenced for acts that killed two people

December 31, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

90 days in prison for not thinking before acting MONTREAL––Would-be duckling rescuer Emma Czornobaj, 26, of Châteauguay, Quebec, was on December 18, 2014 sentenced to serve 45 weekends (90 days) in prison, and do 240 hours of community service for causing the June 2010 deaths of motorcyclists Andre Roy, 50, and his daughter Jessie, 16. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Right, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andre Roy, Danny Bampton, Edward Gardner, Emma Czornobaj, Hallie Bibeau, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi

Courts rule that orangutan in Argentina has more rights than chimp in New York state

December 29, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Judge says an orangutan named Sandra has been improperly imprisoned for 20 years at the Buenos Aires Zoo BUENOS AIRES, Argentina; ALBANY, New York––Ruling opposite to the findings of the New York Court of Appeals just two weeks earlier, the Argentinian Second Appeals Court on December 19, 2014 agreed that an orangutan named Sandra has […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Right, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, South America, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Argentinian Second Appeals Court, Buenos Aires Zoo, Martin Balluck, New York Court of Appeals, Steven Wise

Gadhi Mai is a state of mind

December 19, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Jim Myers Animal Aid Charitable Trust, Udaipur, Rajasthan www.animalaidunlimited.com After spending days and nights traveling in the remote district of Bihar adjacent to Nepal to help intercept the animal traffic to the 2014 Gadhi Mai sacrificial festival,  two conditions became apparent that are worth noting and hopefully sharing with the relevant authorities in Bihar […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Right, Food, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Gadhi Mai, Jim Myers

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA

December 12, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Norm Phelps Lantern Books (1 Union Square West, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003), 2007. 367 pages, paperback. $20.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton If anyone wrote a history of animal advocacy before Noah built the ark, it missed the boat. Histories of animal advocacy have mostly missed the boat ever since. Many have been […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Islam, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Norm Phelps

Jurist V.R. Krishna Iyer, 100, fought for captive elephants

December 6, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Vaidyanathapura Rama Krishna Iyer, 100, among India’s most distinguished jurists, advocates for animals, and advocates in particular for improving the lives of temple elephants, died on December 4, 2014 from the combination of renal and cardiac failure. Though of Tamil Brahmin family background, V.R. Krishna Iyer was born and raised in the Malabar region of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy, Spectacles, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Kerala, Maneka Gandhi, Supreme Court of India, V.R. Krishna Ayer

The toll from Gadhi Mai 2014: 750 buffalo sacrificed, 1,000 devotees in attendance

November 29, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

  Drone photo permits body count Debate about the numbers of buffalo sacrificed at the November 27,  2014 Gadhi Mai sacrificial festival at Bariyarpur,  Nepal and the numbers of human participants and sacrificial devotees present should be ended by this drone photo of the corrals where the sacrifices were conducted:  the toll was significantly lower […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cultural, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Gadhi Mai, Merritt Clifton

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