Finally some legislative action in Pennsylvania vs. pigeon shoots

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
HARRISBURG–The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee on
April 12, 2011 voted 11-3 to send a bill to ban pigeon shoots to the
full state senate for consideration.
The passage of a state bill from committee to legislative
consideration rarely attracts national notice, but the action on SB
626, introduced by state senator Patrick Browne, caused the
National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legis-lative Action to
issue a membership alert contending that SB 626 is about “banning all
hunting.”

“We screwed up,” admits VegNews after QuarryGirl exposé of use of meat photos

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

HOLLYWOOD, SAN FRANCISCO–“Do you like
looking at pictures of meat?” opened the
Hollywood vegan blog www.QuarryGirl.com on April
13, 2011.
“How about a juicy beef burger, covered
in egg mayonnaise with cow fat dripping off?”
QuarryGirl continued. “Perhaps some soft, meaty
chunks of chicken breast in chicken stock and
cream? What about a pork sausage, oozing in pig
fat, fresh from the slaughterhouse?
“You can find all this in the nation’s
premier print and online vegan magazine,
VegNews,” QuarryGirl charged. “Veg News has
written tens (possibly hundreds) of articles
extolling the virtues of a vegan lifestyle,
while purchasing rock-bottom priced stock photos
of meat, eggs, dairy, and other completely
non-vegan things.”

Spiritual leader & vegetarian advocate Sathya Sai Baba dies at 84

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
PUTTAPARTHI–Sathya Sai Baba, 84, died on April 23, 2011
after three weeks in critical condition due to cardio-respiratory
failure.
Called by the London Daily Telegraph “India’s most famous and
most controversial holy man, and one of the most enigmatic and
remarkable religious figures of the last century,” Sai Baba was
“thought to have been born,” the Telegraph said, “as Sathya
Narayana Raju, on November 23, 1926, into a poor farming family in
Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. According to legend, as a child he
would avoid places where animals were slaughtered and bring beggars
home to be fed.”

Brooke, Donkey Sanctuary, ESAF halt feeding working animals near pyramids

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
CAIRO–The Egyptian army on Arpil 11, 2011 forcibly cleared
Tahrir Square in central Cairo of protesters demanding the trial of
former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Two months to the day after
Mubarak left office, turning the government over to army leaders,
thousands of Egyptians joined protests against army rule.
But, anticipating that tourism would rapidly recover over
the Easter weekend, the Brooke Hospital for Animals, the Donkey
Sanctuary, and the Egyptian Society of Animal Friends jointly
announced on April 11 that they would stop feeding working animals in
the vicinity of the Giza Pyramids on April 21, the Thursday
preceding Good Friday.

Activists block truck to save dogs in China

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

BEIJING–Driving on the Tongzhou section of the
Beijing-Harbin expressway at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 15, 2011, a
China Small Animal Protection Association volunteer surnamed An saw a
livestock truck hauling between 430 and 580 dogs, according to
various different news accounts.
As dogs are rarely eaten in the Beijing region, and are not
raised in the Beijing region for sale to the parts of China where
dogs are commonly eaten, An suspected that the dogs were stolen.

Dolphins to be freed from traveling shows

April 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:
JAKARTA–“We have identified 73 ‘blood dolphins’ who were
captured illegally from the Indonesian national parks,” Dolphin
Project founder Ric O’Barry e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE on March 26,
2011. Working with the Indonesian Foresty Ministry, O’Barry said,
“We will confiscate them in groups of three to five.”
The Jakarta Animal Aid Network and the Dolphin Project,
working in recent years under the auspices of Earth Island Institute,
expect to release back to the wild 70 dolphins from Karimun Jawa
National Park in Central Java and three more from Ujung Kulon
National Park in Banten.

Camel Rescue Centre in India is world’s first

April 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

JAIPUR, India–Help In Suffer-ing on March 13, 2011 opened
a new Camel Rescue Centre at Bassi, on the outskirts of Jaipur. The
announcement was of global humane significance because, as best
ANIMAL PEOPLE can determine, the Help In Suffering Camel Rescue
Centre is the first facility built specifically to help camels in
humane movement history, and only the second dedicated camel
hospital in the world.
The first was the Dubai Camel Hospital, opened in 1990 by
Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum to treat the 3,000 racing and
dairy camels “belonging to the Maktoum family and their friends and
relatives,” wrote BBC News science reporter Anna-Marie Lever in
January 2009.

Animal rescuers respond to the crisis in Japan

April 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

If animals ran for high ground or took cover just before the
Thoku Chih earthquake hit Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011,
accounts of their behavior did not reach ANIMAL PEOPLE. The
catastrophe appears to have taken Japanese animals as much by
surprise as humans, more than 27,000 of whom were dead or missing.
Rating 9.0 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter 20 miles
below the sea off the northeast coast, the most powerful quake in
recorded Japanese history was followed by a tsunami whose 33-foot
wave hurled cars through third-floor windows. Already airborne,
several news agency helicopters videotaped destruction resembling the
rampages of the cinematic monster Godzilla.

Anna Briggs, 101, lived an animal rights lifestyle before there was a movement

April 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:
Anna Catherine Briggs, 101, died on February 15, 2011 in
Berryville, Virginia. Co-founder in 1948 of the National Humane
Education Society, Anna Briggs was the youngest and last living
representative of a minority faction within early 20th century
humane work who demonstrated an “animal rights” philosophy more than
50 years before the emergence of the animal rights movement.
Leaders of the proto-animal rights faction included David and
Diana Belais, who founded the Humane Society of New York in 1893,
the New York Anti-Vivisection Society in 1908, and the short-lived
First Church of Animal Rights in 1921; Flora Kibbe, who founded the
Bide-A-Wee Home in 1903; and James J. Briggs, prominent within the
cause in the Washington D.C. area long before he met Anna, who was
then Anna Reynolds.

« 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 … 250 »