Right after I wrote against the health hazards of fish, I have received a number of letters from various fish traders  attacking my motives, qualifications and information.  This is typical. Everytime evidence is presented against meat , fish and dairy , it is sought to be silenced by big business interests. When Oprah Winfrey declared on television that she would never again eat a hamburger following an outbreak of  Mad Cow Disease, she was promptly sued by  the association of Texas cattle ranchers who make a living from killing cows.  To the fishy folk who wrote in to me, my reply is a finding just released by the US Centre for Science in the Public Interest ( CSPI) which states that fish and shellfish are more likely to cause foodborne-illness than any other category of food product. Read the rest of this entry »

While I write for and about animals,  intervene with advice and support,  and work at a shelter and animal welfare organisation, I have a huge admiration for those activists who on a day to day basis, fight on the ground. People who take on nasty neighbours and belligerent RWAs to continue feeding colony dogs , people who personally go to police stations and court to report and prosecute cruelty, those who go out night after night to catch trucks heavily overloaded with animals, those who take responsibility for sterilizing and vaccinating their colony dogs , those who rescue litters off the street and find them homes, those who go out gathering donations for animal welfare , those who wake early to spread birdfeed,  those who comb municipal shelters to find a missing animal,  those who go underground to collect intelligence against poachers and wildlife smugglers, those who adopt and look after handicapped animals, those who take time out from full working schedules to volunteer and those who stand up against daily threats, abuse and even family pressures to continue working for animals.      Read the rest of this entry »