IT’S ALL AN ‘ACT’: USDA accused of ignoring Animal Welfare Act violations in favor of business interests
RACHEL FOBAR: During a 2017 inspection of Monterey Zoo, formerly known as Wild Things Animal Rentals, Inc., in Salinas, California, federal…
Susana Monsó: What animals think of death
SUSANA MONSO: When the Virginia opossum feels threatened, she plays dead... To all outward appearance, she is no different from a corpse. In this…
‘COMPLETE ANIMAL LIBERATION’: Tash Peterson on disruptive activism, its benefits and fallouts
SAMANTHA FERGUSON: Notorious. Militant vegan. Serial pest. That's how media outlets have described Tash Peterson. The 27-year-old animal rights…
THE TENTACLES OF CARNALITY: Octopus ‘farming research’ facility is drawing the wrath of animal rights activists
BRITTANY LYTE: A growing appetite for octopus from the Mediterranean to South America is driving researchers on multiple continents to study…
POISON TAILS: Animal rights activists in hazmat suits protest monkey breeding facility conditions
ROB O'DELL: Animal activists donned full hazmat suits to protest the conditions of monkeys at monkey facility north of Mesa, Arizona that has come…
THE CONS OF ‘CONSERVATION’: Renowned Columbus Zoo and Aquarium loses accreditation over animal exploitation activities
JENNIFER SMOLA SHAFFER: The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has lost its accreditation with its industry's top accrediting body amid concerns regarding…
INVESTIGATION: Sickness and death at U.S. National Primate Research Centers’ largest monkey breeding facility
ROB O'DELL: Pigtailed macaques abound in the steamy jungles and swamps of Southeast Asia. They live in large, tight-knit social groups that can…
‘SHOCKED TO THE BONE’: 30 lions euthanized as horrific abuse on South African farm shocks animal rights group
DEBORA PATTA: Thirty captive-bred lions have been euthanized after they were found starving and untreated for serious injuries sustained when a…
AUSCHWITZ FOR MONKEYS: Animal rights group suing university over secret animal experimentation board members, meetings and records
ELENA WALDMAN: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is filing a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the University of Washington (UW)…
NOT FOR ‘GIVING’: Several animal rights activists arrested at turkey farm protest in Ontario, Canada
MEAT THE VICTIMS CANADA: 200 animal activists staged a Meat the Victims action at a Hybrid Turkeys breeding farm in Ontario, a week before Canadian…