Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
Developing world hunger can save the Atlantic Canada seal hunt?!
Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Fisheries & Oceans issues arguably the most absurd recommendations for reviving the seal hunt yet ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Sealers have again been shooting and clubbing harp seals off Newfoundland and Labrador since April 8, 2024, but the outside world barely knows it. Newfoundland sealers expect to kill between 30,000 and 40,000 […]
The real Barbie: inconsistent, but a leading animal advocate since 1959
Barbie’s many missteps, despite longtime pro-animal direction, mirror her society BARBIELAND––Amid the hoopla for the live action Barbie film released on July 21, 2023, Ontario film maker and animal rights strategist Stephen Best resolutely refrains from entering his local theater. “My personal choice,” Best posted to Facebook, “is that I will not pay Mattel or […]
International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87
Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt CAPE COD, Massachusetts––Brian Davies, 87, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Network for Animals, the Political Animal Lobby, and Animal Survival International, died after a prolonged illness on December 27, 2022. Born on February 4, 1935 in Tonyrefail, Wales, an impoverished mining village, […]
Russian invasion of Ukraine is killing the trapped fur trade too
Already down allegedly due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, fur sales crash at first pelt auctions of 2022 NORTH BAY, Ontario––North Bay Fur Harvesters Auction chief executive Mark Downey blames the Russian invasion of Ukraine for what appear to be the most depressed trapped fur pelt sales since 1999. Founded in 1991, the […]