“Put El Cerrito on the map in animal rights” Rose Matychak Lernberg, 88, a founding member of both the California humane lobbying organization PawPAC and the Contra Costa Humane Society, died on June 6, 2016 at Chaparral House, a nursing home in Berkeley, California, where she had resided during three years of illness. A resident […]
“The most egregious event in all of rodeo”
by Eric Mills, founder, Action for Animals Surely “single steer roping” (aka “steer tripping” and, more aptly, “steer busting”) is the most egregious event in all of rodeo, worse even than calf roping (babies!) or the Mexican charreada’s “horse tripping” and “steer tailing” events. Anyone in doubt need only view the many YouTube videos. Contusions, […]
Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality:
On Care for Our Common Home Melville House Publishers, Brooklyn & London, July 2015. 165 pages, with notes. $14.95. Reviewed by Eric Mills, founder & coordinator, Action for Animals (afa@mcn.org) The British newspaper The Guardian called Pope Francis’ Enclycical on Climate Change & Inequality “The most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal […]
“Our State Fair is a great state fair!”
Good news from the California State Fair! For the second consecutive year, there will be NO goldfish given away as prizes, and NO hermit crabs (all taken from the wild) sold as pets, thereby sparing the lives and suffering of many thousands of animals. And NO pregnant sows in those godawful farrowing crates. Can I […]
Oakland bans elephant hooks
Wednesday, December 10, 2:30 a.m. TO ELEPHANT ADVOCATES EVERYWHERE Some good news on the circus elephant front! Just got home from the Oakland City Council meeting (5:30pm – 2:30 a.m.) –an overflow crowd. The Council last night passed an ordinance banning the use of bullhooks and similar devices on circus elephants, following the lead of […]
Busted for alleged arms trafficking, Leland Yee had mixed record on animals
SAN FRANCISCO––The March 26, 2014 arrest of California state senator Leland Yee for alleged firearms trafficking and corruption sent shockwaves rippling through the animal advocacy community, as well as through the California Democratic Party and San Francisco’s Chinatown, Yee’s base of political support. Yee, who politically postured as a […]
“Steer-tailing” is even more brutal than “horse tripping”
The California State Legislative Counsel Bureau on February 6, 2014 issued a legal opinion on “steer tailing,” a standard event in charreada, or Mexican-style rodeo. The legal opinion concludes: “To summarize, the practice of steer tailing is not prohibited per se by the animal cruelty laws (of California.) It is our opinion, however, that…a court, […]