What Brenda Sanders & Chinny Krishna don’t have in common with Sheriff John Root BALTIMORE, Maryland; CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India; London, Kentucky––Some people, like Food & Justice web video host Brenda Sanders of Baltimore, dedicate their lives to breaking down stereotypes and expanding the horizons of everyone around them. Some people, like longtime Blue Cross […]
Miyoko court win: the world doesn’t owe Big Dairy a living
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 […]
Bullfighting politics take sharp twists in India
Bullfighting foes receive national honors even as Tamil Nadu state government drops charges against 26,450 bullfighting defenders & heads of both major national parties support bullfights CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India––Jallikattu, the Tamil Nadu form of bullfighting in which mobs abuse the bulls as they run through the streets during harvest festivals, on February 20, […]
Maneka makes waves as animal welfare minister (November 1998)
Moved rapidly on marine mammal exhibition, cattle transport, & wild-caught bird trade NEW DELHI––Contrary to Press Trust of India and New Zealand Press Association reports of October 7, Indian minister for social justice and empowerment Maneka Gandhi did not ban animal experiments in India effective on October 8, 1998 but she did announce draft regulations […]
India bans dolphin exhibitions
“We will not allow dolphinariums” May/June 2013 DELHI––“We will not allow dolphinariums,” Indian environment and forest minister Jayanthi Natarajan on May 8, 2013 told Chetan Chahan of the Hindustan Times. “The environment ministry rejected plans to develop dolphinariums in the Noida neighborhood of Delhi, Kochi in Kerala, and in Mumbai, some of which have been […]
COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food
But preserving profits, “red state” votes, and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28, 2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]
Heart failure fells Vier Pfoten (Four Paws) founder Helmut Dungler, 56
Dungler died at the Lionsrock sanctuary he founded BETHLEHEM, South Africa––Helmut Dungler, 56, founder of the international animal charity Vier Pfoten (Four Paws), died on January 5, 2020 from a sudden massive heart attack suffered on one of his frequent visits to the Lionsrock sanctuary, among the biggest and most ambitious of the many […]
#DontGetMilked makes a splash in the heart of hypocritical cow worship
Animal advocates wean themselves from the “gaushala” dairy tradition NEW DELHI, India––The billboard message “#DontGetMilked. Ditch Dairy! Go Vegan!” posted recently in Nehru Place, New Delhi by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO), is a crowd-stopper. It might not rate a blink, let alone a shocked doubletake from visiting American and European […]
Could non-leather Zoa make the majors in sports before fashion?
Two high-tech sporting goods pioneers think so COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.; CHENNAI, India––If sports are the testing ground for style, then Modern Meadow Inc., makers of Zoa brand cultured leather, should be pleased as punch with reader response to the ANIMALS 24-7 feature article No animals skinned to make new Zoa “biofabricated” leather, published on October 9, 2017. […]
What if the U.S. Supreme Court ruled rodeo unconstitutional?
It happened in India! NEW DELHI, India––Imagine the U.S. Supreme Court resoundingly rebuking the Donald Trump presidential administration by holding rodeo to be unconstitutional, regardless of how culturally entrenched it is among “red state voters,” his support base. Difficult though it may be to imagine newly appointed U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions moving under […]