EXPOSED: Birds Punched, Beaten at Australia’s Largest Chicken Producer
PETA: 'A PETA exposé of Australia’s largest chicken producer, Baiada, which slaughters approximately 35% of chickens raised for meat in Australia,…
Can Animals Imagine Things That Have Never Happened?
THOMAS HILLS: 'The possibility that animals might have imaginations strikes some as anthropomorphic—we are projecting our own qualities into the…
‘Property’ or ‘Person’?: How animal rights could open new moral frontier
EOIN O'CARROLL: 'In a forested reserve in central Florida, Sandra is settling in to her new home. Thanks to a 2015 ruling by a judge in Argentina,…
THE KILLING FIELDS: The Largest Mass Animal ‘Sacrifice’ in the World Is About to Begin
ARISTOS GEORGIOU: 'At the beginning of next month, Nepal will host an event which features the largest mass animal sacrifice in the world. The…
Eva Meijer: ‘Of course animals speak. The thing is, we don’t listen’.
PATRICK BARKHAM: 'Eva Meijer, a Dutch philosopher, novelist, visual artist and singer-songwriter, is visiting the splendidly acronymed Faith (For…
Chinese medicine Ejiao has left the world’s donkey population in crisis, British study finds
JULIAN RYALL: 'A study by a British charity dedicated to protecting donkeys says soaring demand in China for the traditional medicine ejiao has left…
LONG JOURNEY TO DEATH: Nearly all 14,600 sheep on board capsized cargo ship in Black Sea have died
OZ KATERJI: 'Thousands of sheep were feared dead a day after a vessel carrying almost 15,000 of them overturned off the Romanian coast, leading to…
Skull study suggests pre-humans weren’t as bright as modern apes
BROOKS HAYS: 'New research suggests it wasn't superior intelligence that set our earliest pre-human ancestors, like Australopithecus, apart from…
Report finds slaughterhouse where workers trampled sheep took no action to prevent it, despite warnings
LUKE ANDREWS: 'A Welsh slaughterhouse where sheep have been trampled by workers and trapped underneath carcasses failed to take action to prevent…
Add Another Animal to the List of Tool Users: Pigs
KARINNA HURLEY: 'Tool use was long believed to be unique to our species—a defining feature, like language. Utilizing objects to achieve goals is not…