EXPENDABLE: Colleges euthanizing lab animals to ‘protect’ employees from Covid-19 facing an onslaught of criticism
MARC PARRY: The pandemic is curtailing all but the most critical lab research. Many scientists are responding by sacrificing mice as they shelve…
Jane Goodall: ‘Disrespect for animals’ caused pandemic
STEPHANE ORJOLLET: World-renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall says the coronavirus pandemic was caused by humanity's disregard for nature…
Matthew Scully: China’s Wet Markets, America’s Factory Farming
MATTHEW SCULLY: Already, in the Western media, chronologies of the pandemic have taken to passing over details of the live-animal markets, which…
UNMASKED: World Health Organization (WHO) refuses to join global effort to close all ‘wet’ animal markets
CHRIS WHITE: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are one of many animal rights activists that are demanding China end so-called wet…
Scientists: Next pandemic is already coming unless humans change how we interact with animals
KARIN BRULLIARD: As the world scrambles to cope with an unprecedented public health and economic crisis, many disease researchers say the Covid-19…
Physicians Urge U.S. Surgeon General to Shut Down All U.S. Live Animal Markets
AP: In a legal Petition for Rulemaking filed with Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, the U.S. Surgeon General, the Physicians Committee — a nonprofit of 12,000…
Broad coalition forming in U.S. to pressure China to close ‘wet’ markets
ANI: A coalition consisting of Senators, activists and Humane Society of the United States is being formed to exert pressure on China to close the…
Animal liberation during the Coronavirus pandemic
LOUISIANNA WARING: When new pandemics occur an almost immediate reaction is to pinpoint the blame on someone, or something. Despite not knowing the…
Court permanently bans enforcement of Kansas ‘Ag-Gag’ law
SF GATE: A federal judge blocked enforcement of provisions in a Kansas law that ban the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock…
#DumpDairy: Coronavirus is hitting dairy farms especially hard. What about the cows?
RICK BARRETT: Coronavirus is delivering a blow to Wisconsin agriculture at the worst possible time as milk prices that were poised for a rebound are…