by Helene Hesselager O’Barry Illustrated by Cheryl de los Reyes Cruz Hardcover, 40 pages, $19.78, from https://www.amazon.com/Squees-Escape-Helene-Hesselager-OBarry/dp/0998646008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522071083&sr=8-1&keywords=Helene+Hesselager+O’Barry Reviewed by Beth Clifton Through a young dolphin’s eyes in the vast ocean world, Helene Hesselager O’Barry, wife of Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry and partner with him in freeing dolphins from captivity for more than 20 years, […]
Do you feel you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over?
Dear friends & readers: Do you ever feel as if you are fighting the same battles for animals over and over? Thirty years ago we celebrated a global ban on commercial whaling, a ban on international sales of elephant ivory and rhino horn, and a 10-year suspension of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt. U.S. retail […]
Alabama mauling: “Emily’s Law” fails to protect public from pit bulls
2018 law raised penalties for dog attacks, but also raised bars to preventing them FORT MITCHELL, Alabama––“Vicious dog attack warrants misdemeanor charge,” bannered Robbie Watson of WLTZ-38 First News on July 10, 2019, but the story focus was on the shock and frustration of victim Sandy Vogts that the attack itself actually brought no […]
Breed survey 2019: more puppies, yet fewer homes for pit bulls
54% of U.S. pit bulls are seeking homes, up from 41% in 2018 Americans seeking to add a dog to their families had 17.2 million dogs to choose from in the first week of July 2019, a third more than in July 2018, according to the 10th annual ANIMALS 24-7 mid-summer survey of online classified […]
Whaling harpoons Icelandic tourism & the whole nation suffers (UPDATE!)
Iceland suspends whaling after ANIMALS 24-7 exposes how killing whales wounded a whale-watching industry that brings in twice as much money REYKJAVIK, Iceland––The two remaining Icelandic whaling companies, Hvalur, killing fin whales, and IP Útgerð, killing minke whales, on the afternoon of June 27, 2019 jointly announced that they will not go whaling this year, […]
Activist Mary Max, 52: maxed out as artist Peter Max, 81, peters out
Suicide by nitrogen asphixiation NEW YORK, N.Y.––Animal advocate and philanthropist Mary Max, 52, wife of pop artist Peter Max, was on June 9, 2019 found dead in their apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City from allegedly self-induced nitrogen asphyxiation, a bag-over-the-head method described by Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphrey in […]
Gorillas in solitary: Ndume wins parole. Now what about King?
The Gorilla Foundation reluctantly returns Ndume to the Cincinnati Zoo. King still sits alone at Monkey Jungle. CINCINNATI, Ohio––Sprung from solitary confinement after 28 years at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, California, Ndume the gorilla, age 38, is back among old friends and family at the Cincinnati Zoo, reportedly settling in well. King the […]
Fair Oaks Farms stepped in the same crap as the rest of the herd
Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence, as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy, meat, and poultry consumption among younger […]
Exposé of “Dairy Disneyland” horrors gives agribiz the runs
Fair Oaks Farms’ Dairy Adventure was recently profiled as “One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture” FAIR OAKS, Indiana––Undercover video from Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana, has exposed extensive abuse of young calves at a facility widely billed as exemplifying a new, humane approach to factory farming. Animal Recovery Mission, of Miami […]
Mouse studies often don’t work, NIH admits after landmark 10-year study
National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March 2013)–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11, 2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Echoing […]
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