Pramoda Chitrabhanu
First All Vegetarian City in the World
From Mercy for Animals: Indian City Becomes First Vegetarian City in the World by Sarah Von Alt - Oct 8, 2014 Worldcrunch reports a historic change in Palitana, an Indian city, which has become the first all-vegetarian city in the world. Behind this revolutionary change are the Jain monks who went on a hunger strike to pressure the state of Gujarat to outlaw animal slaughter in their city. The hunger strike was successful and the Gujarat government imposed a ban on animal slaughter [Read more...]
Tell NIH to Stop Torturing Infant Monkeys – from PETA

From PETA to Pramoda Chitrabhanu... Where It All Began ... Harry Harlow’s psychological experiments on monkeys in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s were infamous for their cruelty. Harlow tore newborns away from their mothers, gave some infants “surrogate mothers” made of wire and wood, and kept other traumatized babies in isolation in tiny metal boxes, sometimes for up to a year. Realizing that such horrific conditions resulted in long-term, debilitating psychological trauma for the infants, [Read more...]