After 17 days and 1,000 miles, mother orca Tahlequah drops her dead calf
LYNDA V. MAPES: 'Tahlequah the mother orca is no longer carrying her dead calf. “J35 frolicked past my window today with other J pod whales, and she…
Camera captures father and son shooting bear and ‘shrieking’ cubs in den
ZAZ HOLLANDER: 'A father and son from the Matanuska Valley are accused of illegally shooting a sow black bear and its two newborn cubs in a den,…
Animal liberation from below: Toward a radical interspecies municipalism
DAYTON MARTINDALE: 'In social ecology, humans and our societies are seen as a “second nature” that arises out of nonhuman “first nature.” While…
The Most Endangered Animals on the Planet — and Why They Remain Under Threat
NEWSWEEK: 'Scientists believe that the Earth is on the brink of another mass extinction... But this massive loss of organic diversity doesn’t come…
Who Are America’s Vegans And Vegetarians? [Infographic]
NIALL McCARTHY: 'Despite the green-eating hype, vegetarians and vegans are actually pretty rare in American eating circles today. A recent poll…
Animal Madness In The Age Of Killing Them For Food, Fun, Science And ‘Progress’
DALLAS DARLING: 'Detailing a harrowing story of a pig at a British slaughterhouse, Matthew Scully, wrote in “Dominion: The Power of Man, the…
Meat isn’t just murder, it could mean Armageddon: Why you should become vegan now
CHAS NEWKEY-BURDEN: 'The meat and dairy industries kill 70bn animals every year – and a new report has found that they are on track to become the…
Inside the sick South Korean market where 80,000 dogs are slaughtered for food
MATT DRAKE: 'An animal rights activist has described horrific conditions at an infamous dog food market in South Korea where thousands of dogs are…
Smithfield Foods Ordered To Pay $473.5 Millions In Damages To Neighbors Of Hog Factory Farms
ALEX DEROSIER: 'A federal jury decided Friday that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina…
How veganism changes your body from day one
SOPHIE MEDLIN: 'A 2016 Roy Morgan poll found 2.1 million Australians (11.2 per cent of the population) followed a vegetarian diet, up from 1.7…