LORDS OF THE FLIES: Lobsters’ feelings loom large as House of Lords debates Britain’s ‘animal welfare’ bill
WILLIAM BOOTH: How does a lobster feel when it's dropped into the boiling pot?... Is an octopus sad, sometimes? Does the squid learn its lessons?…
EXPORTING TORTURE: Zebrafish on Ecstasy and feeding mice human feces, NIH hikes funding for animal testing abroad
CARLIN BECKER: The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in the last two…
‘PET’ CLOWNS: Responsible ‘pet ownership’ regulations are racist, some scholars argue
GRACE BUREAU: The term “responsible pet ownership” has its roots in “racism, classism, and the White dominant culture.” That is according to…
UNBEARABLE TRUTHS: Mom unhappy with vegan activists after son confronted by images of slaughtered animals
DAVE OWEN: A young mother has rounded on vegan activists who she says exposed her three-year-old son to gruesome graffiti depicting butchered…
‘VIEWS THAT ABUSE’: New report says cruel, fake animal rescue videos still prevalent on YouTube
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: A new investigation from the global charity World Animal Protection further exposes the shocking scale of a cruel and…
THE HEART OF THE MATTER: Animals’ hearts reveal their hidden emotional worlds
CLAUDIA WASCHER: It’s not only humans who feel emotions. In his 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin…
WILD SOULS: What makes an animal wild?
BOYCE UPHOLT: Before Zion was a name for a national park, it was another word for Jerusalem. Eventually, it morphed into a metaphor, shorthand for…
A HARVEST OF BLOOD: Only one cow that escaped slaughterhouse allowed to live in sanctuary, others ‘harvested’
CNS: The only surviving cow among a group of 40 bovines who escaped a Pico Rivera slaughterhouse has arrived at her new home at a Southland Farm…
SONO PERVERSE QUELLI ROMANI (SPQR): Roast pig statue in Rome draws animal rights protests
ELISABETTA PROVOLEDO: A sculpture of a roasted pig, a new public artwork installation paying tribute to the Italian capital, was removed on Friday…
ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW: Dozens of cows escape slaughterhouse, but freedom in L.A. streets was short-lived
JUSTIN RAY: It was an unusual sight, especially for Los Angeles: a herd of cattle galloping through the streets of Pico Rivera for nearly an hour…