Desmond Morris’ ideas helped to form “animal rights” arguments, but Morris stood apart from the cause LONDON, U.K.––Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, an influence upon and fellow traveler with the animal rights movement for much of his life, but at odds with vegans and vegetarians, died on April 19, 2026, in Naas, County Kildare, […]
Kaporos, October 7, Israel, Gaza, antisemitism & the animal rights movement
Days that live in infamy NEW YORK, N.Y.––Kaporos, the chicken-swinging ritual practiced annually by the men of about 130,000 Hassidic Jewish households worldwide, mostly members of the evangelical Chabad sect, will occur during the early morning hours from September 20, 2025 to October 1, 2025, the day immediately preceding Yom Kippur. A week after that […]
MADNESS: The Deep Driver of Our Climate Crisis, by Jim Mason
MADNESS: The Deep Driver of Our Climate Crisis Lessons from my family farm by Jim Mason www.JimMason.info/madness 107 pages. 2025. Reviewed by Mark Mathew Braunstein Connecticut resident Mark Mathew Braunstein, 74, vegetarian since 1966, paraplegic since 1990, is author of six books, including Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic (1981). Allured by its […]
Christine Townend, 81, founded the animal rights movement in Australia
Animal Liberation was only the second explicitly “animal rights” organization in the world Christine Townend, 81, remembered by Animal Justice Party member of the New South Wales legislative council Emma Hurst, 44, as “essentially the founder of the entire animal rights movement in Australia,” died from Parkinson’s disease in Leura, New South Wales, on August […]
Diet for A New America author John Robbins dies at 77 from legacy of polio
John Robbins led through writing, speaking & personal example Vegan health and fitness advocate John Robbins, 77, died on June 11, 2025 in Soquel, California from complications of post-polio syndrome. Medically described as “a neurological condition that affects some individuals years after recovering from poliomyelitis (polio),” post-polio syndrome is characterized by the onset of new […]
“Effective altruism,” farmed animals, & convicted felon Sam Bankman-Fried
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism Edited by Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen Contributors: Amia Srinivisan, Brenda Sanders, Simone De Lima, Christopher Sebastian Andrew DeCoriolis, Aaron S. Gross, Steve J. Gross, Joseph Tuminello, Michael D. Wise, Matthew C. Halteman, David L. Clough, Pattrice Jones, Carol […]
Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79
Karen Davis was a frequent ANIMALS 24-7 guest columnist & commentator MACHIPONGO, Virginia––United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis, or Karen Davis, PhD., as she always signed her writings, “passed away peacefully on the morning of November 4, 2023 at the United Poultry Concerns sanctuary, surrounded by her beloved birds,” the organization announced, pledging to “continue […]
How humility can help animal advocates to change the world, by Ed Duvin
Perspective of an old warrior Spending over a half-century in social justice movements, much of it consulting, I have formed some conclusions that did not come down from the mountaintop, but merely represent the perspective of an old warrior. Were I to identify the most pernicious characteristics I have encountered among justice-seeking activists, regardless of […]
Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming
Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21, 1947––October 13, 2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages, paperback. $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media, www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, published 28 years after the first edition, is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction, in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]