“Promises, promises,” to the skirl of bagpipes Soon-to-retire longtime Animal Concern campaign director John Robins, being a Scot who may never have seen a baseball game, is not known to have ever used a metaphor borrowed from baseball. (See “Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland.) Robins is known, […]
“Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland
Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins, 64, probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history, despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,” has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth, but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]
The Supremacist Syndrome, by Peter Marsh
How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, & the Maltreatment of Animals Lantern Publishing & Media, 128 Second Place, Brooklyn, NY 11231; www.lanternpm.org. Available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Many ANIMALS 24-7 readers will remember Supremacist Syndrome author and New Hampshire attorney Peter Marsh as an occasional presenter […]
Animal evacuations from Kabul & New Orleans echo Saigon & Katrina
No U.S. military dogs left behind this time KABUL, Afghanistan; NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana––The last U.S. military flight from Kabul, Afghanistan lifted off on August 30, 2021 at 3:29 p.m. local time, evoking memories of the 1975 last U.S. military flight from Saigon, Vietnam. No animals were aboard either the final U.S. military flight from Kabul […]
Five humane workers noted in passage
Melvyn Driver, Stephen Paysse, Michelle Rose, Marge Wright, & Eleonora Worth mostly helped animals behind the scenes Driver “designed & built humane animal handling equipment for over 50 years” Melvyn Driver, 80, of Luton, United Kingdom, whose “innovation, knowledge of cats, and passion for problem-solving helped to shape the success of trap/neuter/return feral cat control […]
The Body Shop to go “100% vegan” by 2023––but wasn’t it already?
Expanding the gulf between image and reality is what the cosmetics industry is all about LONDON, U.K.––Cosmetics and personal care industry media are abuzz with the June 1, 2021 announcement by The Body Shop that every product it offers will be 100% vegan by the end of 2023. Many consumers, on the other hand, […]
British feds to cull badgers, ignoring lessons of 1,000 years
Bio-xenophobia hits pine marten & grey squirrels, too LONDON, U.K.––Though culling predators has come to be recognized as one of the larger ecological mistakes of the Romans, the Normans, the Georgians in the 18th century, and 20th century British governments, British environment secretary Owen Paterson on February 27, 2013 announced that badgers will be culled […]
U.K. “animal sentience” law: “victory” claimed before the fight begins
Recognizing animal sentience is part of an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare” yet to be written into draft bills, let alone passed by Parliament LONDON, U.K.––A week-plus after the Conservative government of the United Kingdom introduced an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare,” much of the animal welfare sector worldwide has already declared “victory,” with the […]
Did North Carolina seven-year-old die trying to stop a dogfight?
New British study confirms frequency of injuries to intervenors in pit bull attacks on other dogs GARNER, North Carolina; GLOUCESTER, U.K.––Did Jayden Belle Henderson, age seven, die trying to stop a dogfight? Two pit bulls on April 27, 2021 killed Henderson and severely mauled her mother, WRAL television master controller Heather Travaskis, 39. Trevaskis, […]
Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing
Two zookeepers, two activists, & a publisher Sharon Matola, Jeremy Mallinson, Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species, an anti-vivisection activist, a vegetarian activist of similar name, and a book publisher, of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson, for instance, were both friends of […]
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