Barbie’s many missteps, despite longtime pro-animal direction, mirror her society BARBIELAND––Amid the hoopla for the live action Barbie film released on July 21, 2023, Ontario film maker and animal rights strategist Stephen Best resolutely refrains from entering his local theater. “My personal choice,” Best posted to Facebook, “is that I will not pay Mattel or […]
Pigeon racing is animal abandonment!
by Elizabeth Young, founder, Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions with afterword, How pigeon flying lost the way, by ANIMALS 24-7 Every day hundreds of domesticated pigeons are transported miles from their homes and “released” to try and fly back for human entertainment. These domestic birds have no survival skills: no ability to find food or water or […]
Is wind power blowing away whales along the Atlantic coast?
Hot air from renewable energy foes is not supported by science POINT PLEASANT, New Jersey––There were no offshore wind turbines operating off the Atlantic coast of the United States in 2016, just a lot of routine commercial shipping, fishing, and recreational boating. Hardly anyone seemed to care when the National Oceanic Administration [NOAA] Office […]
“The poor fish were the real victims,” tank owner says after fire
Beginnings of concern for fish suffering emerge even in the desert ST. GEORGE, Utah; BERLIN, Germany––Josh Wilson of Scenic, Arizona, owner of Polaris Can-Am & Honda World in Mesquite, Nevada, a longtime sponsor of off-road races, likely will never be mistaken for a bleeding heart animal rights activist. Yet it can be said that Wilson […]
Smelling rats after alleged major mink release in Van Wert, Ohio
The numbers & time frame don’t add up, & neither does the money VAN WERT, Ohio––Something happened at a mink farm here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, despite saturation coverage by both local and national media. Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach announced on November 15, 2022 that his office “is investigating a […]
Erika Brunson, 86, animal advocate, actress, interior decorator, & furniture maker
Rose from rough start in life to philanthropic success Animal advocacy and spay/neuter philanthropist Erika Devore Brunson, 86, died in Los Angeles, California on May 17, 2022. Maria Erika Knab, her original given name, was born on September 4, 1935, “in the small fishing town of Konigsberg in East Prussia,” according to an October 16, 2013 […]
H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge
Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide AMES, Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds, wild or domestic, to beware of the first outbreak of High […]
Drug money crushes Swiss proposed ban on animal use in laboratories
Pharmaceutical industry tries to drive stake through the heart of the ghost of Hans Ruesch ZURICH, Switzerland––Voters in Switzerland on February 13, 2022 crushed a proposed national ban on biomedical research using either animal or human subjects by a margin of 21% for, 79% against. Switzerland has some of the strongest animal protection laws […]
Fauci vs. the White Coat Waste Project: did Hans Ruesch sire the conflict?
And who was auto racer, author, & anti-vivisectionist Hans Ruesch, anyhow? The conservative-leaning anti-vivisection organization White Coat Waste Project has since August 11, 2021 issued frequent flamboyant appeals and media releases associating 37-year National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci, 80, with a variety of cruel and gruesome experiments on beagles and […]
European zoos consider killing “surplus” gorillas
The algebra of zoo management is Harambe times X-number equals what amount of public outrage cutting into profits? AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands––Is the European Association of Zoos & Aquaria heading full speed toward the 2016 Harambe debacle at the Cincinnati Zoo times a dozen? Or a hundred? Or any number in between? Did someone among the 340 […]