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Jane Goodall joins voices against livestock gift charities

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Livestock gifts,  Goodall warns,  “can result in unintended consequences”             WASHINGTON D.C.––Primatologist,  anthropologist,  and philanthropist Jane Goodall,  87,  on December 20,  2021 added her globally influential voice to those of the growing number of critics of livestock gift charities. Livestock gift charities include,  most prominently,  Heifer International,  Oxfam, World Vision, and the Cargill’s “Hatching Hope” […]

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

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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 […]

Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?

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by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns “Without guilt improvement is drastically diminished.” – Thomas Coates, Facebook comment, November 22, 2021 The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people,  perhaps many, uncomfortable,  though not necessarily because of guilt.  People […]

The Supremacist Syndrome, by Peter Marsh

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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 […]

Charges in police killing of veg animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain

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32-count criminal indictment names three cops & two paramedics             AURORA, Colorado––The August 30,  2019 forced ketamine overdose death of animal shelter volunteer Elijah McClain,  23,  who declared his belief in vegetarian nonviolence with his dying breath,  on September 1,  2021 at last brought criminal charges against the three police officers and two paramedics in […]

Miyoko court win: the world doesn’t owe Big Dairy a living

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Dairy industry can kiss Miyoko’s vegan butter,  says judge SAN FRANCISCO, California––Jiminy Cricket!  The world doesn’t owe the dairy industry a living,  and Miyoko’s Creamery,  of Petaluma,  California,  does not need to change its advertising and product labeling just because the dairy industry would rather play the bull fiddle in court and before legislatures than […]

If plants have feelings, how does this affect our advocacy for animals?

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by Karen Davis, PhD, president of United Poultry Concerns Can a tree be “strategically responsive, and exhibit kinship, or a sense of self? Is a tree intelligent?” ––Rebecca Giggs, “The Trees Are Talking,” The Atlantic, July /August 2021,  published online as A Better Way to Look at Trees. This intriguing article in The Atlantic recounts […]

Credibility,  GAP?  Global Animal Partnership 10 years later

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Farm Forward,  a former booster,  finds GAP approach bassackward––& is scarcely alone AUSTIN,  Texas––What a difference ten years of Global Animal Partnership have not made for factory-farmed animals! Indeed,  the biggest visible change associated with Global Animal Partnership [GAP] may be that Farm Forward has split with it. A faith-linked farmed animal advocacy organization,  Farm […]

Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing

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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 […]

In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz dies at 86

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Animal rights movement pioneer             SAN RAFAEL,  California–– In Defense of Animals founder Elliot Katz,  DVM,  “died peacefully on March 24th at the age of 86,”  the organization announced via Facebook on April 9,  2021,  after word of Katz’s death had percolated through the animal advocacy community for several days. “Dr. Katz was a trailblazer […]