“Social distancing” also shuts down SeaWorld, seal hunt, fur auctions, Kentucky Derby, & the carriage horses in Central Park PAMPLONA, Spain ––The 700-year-old Festival of San Fermin, featuring bullfights and the “running of the bulls” through the cobbled streets of the oldest part of Pamplona, Spain, was on April 21, 2020 indefinitely postponed due […]
Spanish Supreme Court ends 566-year-old bull-spearing rite
Judges rule against hearing further appeals against order to stop MADRID––A March 18, 2019 decision by the Spanish Supreme Court to hear no further appeals of a Castilla y León provincial order banning the traditional Toro de la Vega bullfight appears to have finally ended one of the oldest annual celebrations of cruelty persisting into […]
Killing the Female: The Psychology of the Hunt
Why hunters hunt––and why far more men quit hunting now than take it up Seán McCormack, managing trustee of the Animal Care Trust in Taiwan, recently brought to our attention “Hunting Linked To Psychosexual Inadequacy & The 5 Phases Of A Hunter’s Life Of Sexual Frustration,” by Brent Lambert, published in November 2016 under the subject […]
Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting
Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine BOISE, Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15, 2018, when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer, 40, had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed, the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]
$10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism
Effects parallel those of bringing rail travel to Yellowstone in 1902 NAIROBI, Kenya––Looming over Kenya like the Standard Gauge Railway trestle at the northern edge of Nairobi National Park, or the marabou storks overlooking the dense traffic on the highway into Nairobi from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, is the question of how $10 billion […]
Hurricane Irma: Hemingway cats & dolphin rescuer Rick Trout rode it out in the Keys
Hemingway house cats supplied the grace, staff the courage (See also Hurricane Irma: first reports on animals in the Caribbean islands.) KEY WEST, TAVERNIER––Having famously remarked that “Courage is grace under pressure,” and almost as famously doted upon the six-toed cat Snowflake, also called Snowball, who roamed his Key West home during his years there, […]
A pro-animal perspective in defense of Ernest Hemingway
by Merritt Clifton A strong literary argument might be made that while Ernest Hemingway justly regarded Mark Twain as the most influential American author before Hemingway’s own time, Hemingway himself was the most influential American author of the 20th century, chiefly for popularizing the terse writing style that has dominated men’s writing done for […]