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 […]
Taiwan adopts plan to become no-kill nation by 2017
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 […]
Hindu “Festival of the Sun” Makar Sankranti cuts birds out of the skies
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 […]
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 […]
Would-be duckling rescuer is sentenced for acts that killed two people
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. […]
Courts rule that orangutan in Argentina has more rights than chimp in New York state
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 […]
Gadhi Mai is a state of mind
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 […]
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA
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 […]
Jurist V.R. Krishna Iyer, 100, fought for captive elephants
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 […]
The toll from Gadhi Mai 2014: 750 buffalo sacrificed, 1,000 devotees in attendance
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 […]
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