FATAL EXTRACTION: Animal rights group urges government to replace newborn calf serum in Covid-19 vaccine production
IANS: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India... has requested the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to replace Newborn Calf…
A BIRD’S NO-BRAINER: Crows understand the ‘concept of zero’
NICOLETTA LANESE: The concept of zero, as used in a number system, fully developed in human society around the fifth century A.D., or potentially a…
VIA DOLOROSA: Law, not science, impedes shift away from cruel and deadly animal testing
GARY MARCHANT: For decades, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, pesticides and other commercial chemicals have dutifully tested their…
TO FREEDOM BORN: Pregnant pig that escaped factory farm to give birth is ‘not out of the woods’
CAROLINE LOWBRIDGE: Anna Aston, the dog walker who found Matilda, said she was confused when she first came across the pigs in the woods... "I knew…
HUMAN PESTILENCE: Mice should be sent to scratch the faces of animal activists’ children, says Australia’s PM
OLIVIA BURKE: Australia's acting Prime Minister has said the nation's mouse plague should be "rehomed" in the inner-city apartments of animal rights…
NO WAY HOME: China’s wandering elephant ‘herd show’. Not as lovable as it looks.
OIWAN LAM: Fifteen Asian elephants have become China's latest internet celebrities and the most successful ambassadors of the new “lovable” image…
TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES: Scientists make male rat give birth
WESLEY J. SMITH: Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect, biological males giving birth, a reality. Rats were…
China’s Mutant Monkeys: Just two of the countless animals used in secret genetic engineering tests
JASPER BECKER: Trees and wildflowers blossom during all four seasons in Kunming, which is known as The City of Eternal Spring because of its…
HORSERACING WRONGS: One man’s war on horse racing
CHRIS CHURCHILL: Twenty years ago, there were 50 or so greyhound tracks operating in the United States. Today, there are just four, including two…
THE SPECIESIST TEST: Should vegans ‘force’ or raise their children to be vegan?
SHERRY F. COLB: Actor Joaquin Phoenix gave an interview with the Sunday Times. During the conversation, he spoke of his nine-month-old son River.…