DOGNAPPING: Epidemic rise of dog abductions in U.K to meet demand for ‘pandemic pets’
WILLIAM BOOTH: Britain is in the throes of a huge dognapping crime wave. This is extremely distressing in this nation of animal lovers, another…
FREE-FOR-ALL: Meet the activists freeing animals from French factory farms
KARINA CHABOUR & JAMES VASINA: The number of groups engaging in direct action for animal welfare and animal rights is on the rise in France.…
SPIRIT THAT BINDS: Compassionate Consortium – A new interfaith community for vegan and animal protection advocates
RNS: Amidst the global suffering of a worldwide pandemic, environmental ecocide, and industrialized abuse of animals, there comes a call for…
TORTURED SOULS: A tug of war over animal testing is dividing the scientific community
ROBERTA STALEY: Charu Chandrasekera was researching heart failure at an American Midwest university, using mice and rats as her test subjects. Then,…
ANIMALS ARE ‘PERSONA NON GRATA’: Legal rights of ‘personhood’ recently given to rivers in Florida and Quebec
NICOLE PALLOTTA: In February 2021, in a first for Canada, the Magpie River in Quebec was granted legal personhood via parallel resolutions adopted…
Sherry F. Colb: How We Resist Positive Change
SHERRY F. COLB: Earlier this month, I signed onto an amicus brief urging the New York Court of Appeals to grant review in the case of NHRP v.…
OUT OF THE DARKNESS: Bears rescued from bile farm after being held captive for 17 Years
SUNEETA SUNNY: Two Asiatic bears were rescued... after being held captive for around 17 years in filthy dark cages while undergoing painful…
BLOOD MONEY: Huge sums of unaccounted for cash in Zimbabwe’s cruel elephant slave trade to China
TRACY KEELING: The controversial sale of elephants from Zimbabwe to other countries, mostly China, is again in the spotlight. The renewed scrutiny…
DEATH RACE: Will Alaska’s horrible 2021 Iditarod be the last?
KATHERINE SULLIVAN: The 2021 Iditarod death race kicked-off on March 7, and PETA hit the ice protesting. The Iditarod’s usual ceremonial start may…
CHICKEN-SHIT: ‘A victory for animals’, so says Peter Singer; but banning cages won’t make eggs humane
JAN DUTKIEWICZ: “A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it... when…