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3 weeks ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Tom Allon |Donny Moss
Over the past two decades, major cities around the world – including Beijing, New Delhi, Paris and London – have taken horse-drawn carriages off of their chaotic urban streets. Motivated by concerns about public safety and animal cruelty, many U.S. cities – including right-leaning Palm Beach, Florida, and Biloxi, Mississippi – have done the same.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
Just three weeks after New York’s 80+ live animal markets re-opened following a five day mandatory closure due to avian flu outbreaks, the New York State Department of Ag & Markets reported seven new outbreaks affecting thousands of birds in four of the city’s five boroughs.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | Donny Moss
“It used to be, once upon a time, you lived in a little shtetl. Before Yom Kippur, you used to take your chicken out of your backyard. You used to take it and do it, but not to bring as a mass slaughtering on the streets. And that’s why I think it’s not right.”These remarks, which were delivered into my iPhone camera by a Haredi man at a Kaporos site, may seem, well, unremarkable, but to me and the other animal rights activists protesting the ritual, they were a bombshell.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
September 3, 2024 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment “The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.” – Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969 – 1974)Note: The introduction of this article was published in the Jewish Journal. IntroductionIf, before the 10/7 terrorist attack on Israel, someone told me that antisemitism would soon take root and spread in the animal rights movement, I would have scoffed. “Not a chance.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | Donny Moss
If, before the 10/7 terrorist attack on Israel, someone told me that antisemitism would soon take root and spread in the animal rights movement, I would have scoffed.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
As part of a global “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” Campaign, animal rights activists in New York City disrupted a launch party hosted by Major League Soccer (MLS) at the Adidas flagship store. During the protest, the activists called on the Chairman of the Board of Adidas, Thomas Rabe, to join Nike, Puma and New Balance in making the switch from “k-leather” to cruelty-free materials.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
After receiving multiple complaints from constituents, New York City Council Member Bob Holden visited live animal markets in Queens and Brooklyn. In these storefront slaughterhouses, also called viveros, customers select the animals who they want to eat, and workers kill them on premises. Among the approximately 12 species sold in NYC’s 70 live markets are chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, turkeys, quails, rabbits, goats, sheep and cows.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
“Fuck the bulls.Fuck the bulls.”As animal rights activists protested a Professional Bull Riding (PBR) event at NYC’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), fans heading inside greeted them with obscenities, remarks about eating meat and nervous smiles. The reactions came as no surprise to the activists, who have protested year-after-year in an effort to educate the public about the cruelty associated with bull riding.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
Virginia Chipurnoi is the President of the Board of the Humane Society of New York (HSNY), a large and well-funded animal shelter in Manhattan that has come under fire in recent years for warehousing animals. Until 2020, Chipurnoi not only served on the board, but she also volunteered at the shelter four days per week. Her presence helped to ensure that the Executive Director, Sandra DeFeo, and her staff were fulfilling the shelter’s mission to place animals into loving homes.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
theirturn.net | Donny Moss
December 8, 2023 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment On December 2nd and 3rd, hundreds of animal rights activists in 20 cities staged protests at Adidas stores in support of a global effort to compel the sportswear company to stop using kangaroo skin in its soccer cleats. Australia’s Animal Justice Party, which is advocating for a ban on kangaroo slaughter in the Parliament, organized the global day of action in support of the Center for a Humane Economy’s “Kangaroos are Not Shoes” campaign.
