By the time you read this lakhs of chickens will have died of Avian Flu. Some will have died naturally. Others will have been beaten to death or strangled.How many do you think will be buried or burnt ? Very few. Most of them will land on your plate, sold at reduced prices by the poultries.So what, ...
According to a research study, people lie at least once a day, but even that number is probably a lie. However, humans are not the only species on earth that are capable of deception. You will find as much danger and intrigue in the animal kingdom as in a Tarantino film. Many primates, especia...
Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat, only to find it was a homemade bomb and her jaw and throat were blasted off. Passers-by saw her sitting calmly on the side of the road, bleeding. They sent for the forest department. Those worthies arrived in fou...
Health and fitness advisors often emphasise on seafood for muscles, high protein, weight loss etc. Few of them have studied the immense health risks that come with eating seafood. Mali Ston is an Adriatic Sea coastal town in Croatia, known all over the world for its unique farmed oysters,...
The more meat-eaters are pushed onto the back foot by the thousands of people turning vegan every day, the harder they are fighting back. Meat is no longer called meat. It is called protein, and a variety of myths are spread about plant eaters; that they have less muscle mass and worse enduran...
When I was growing up in army cantonments, meat was on our table every day. It was taken for granted that military men ate meat because they were “real” men. In my grandfather’s house all the women were vegetarian, but he had to have his meat at both meals and the vegetarian women cooked it fo...
I am reading ‘A Curious History of Food and Drink’, by Ian Crofton. The more I read, the sadder I get. It is a compilation of such savagery, such insane greed for destruction, such insensitivity, that I wonder what an alien reading it would think of us humans. In&n...
When Indian elephants meet African elephants, they recognise that they are both elephants. So do Indian tigers meeting Siberian ones. But I have great difficulty recognising that I am of the same species as a person who attends a Wildfoods Festival in New Zealand to drink shots of bul...
Some weeks ago, I made a WhatsApp group for just my People for Animals (PFA) unit heads. There are about 200 of them on the group. It was the best thing to do because now I see their work every day and each one of them is a blessing to India. They rescue the most wounded, terrified creatures. Animal...
A month ago I received distress calls from people in Mumbai that the municipal commissioner had suddenly swooped down on a 20 year old feeding platform (chabutra) for pigeons, which was on the side of the road in Khar, had covered it with plastic sheets and posted police people so that no one c...