KILLER ‘ART’: Art displaying slowly dying animals removed from museums
TAIYLOR SIMONE MITCHELL: An artist who uses dead or dying creatures in his artwork had his installation — filled with 15 goldfish in IV bags —…
UN-HAPPY: Legal fight to free Happy the elephant continues in New York
NhRP: The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a motion to reargue the 5-2 decision by New York’s highest court issued in June in a landmark case…
MURDER BY NUMBERS: Latest global animal slaughter statistics and charts
KAROL ORZECHOWSKI: In 2020, we published a comprehensive blog looking at the number of animals slaughtered globally for food every year, based on…
INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: Animal activists of Canada may have new weapon against cruelty
KYLE MACDONALD: Spearheaded by Canada’s efforts for reconciliation, legal actors and law institutions have within the last decade integrated…
U.S. court rules university withheld animal experiment records, spied on animal rights group
COURTNEY VAUGHN: A court has determined Oregon Health & Science University withheld public records and illegally surveilled an animal rights…
On Biolabs and Cows: Getting to the heart of the matter
MAUREEN MEDINA: The demand for bovine heart valves to treat cardiovascular disease—the top global killer—is rising, and there is a cruel irony—with…
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): The animal crisis is a human crisis
ALICE CRARY & LORI GRUEN: Today it is undeniable that the human use and destruction of animals and their habitats, including practices that…
‘End the Cage Age’: Major new undercover investigation reveals cruelty, torment and frustration of sows in European farms
RONNIKA A. MCFALL: A major new investigation by Compassion in World Farming released on July 7, 2022 reveals the immense suffering of sows in cage…
EVIL IS IN THE AIR: Animal rights activists’ drone video details livestock cruelty on factory farms
BRUCE CRUMLEY: The broadening deployment of UAVs for rapidly diversifying purposes in recent years has allowed operators to get eyes on – and in –…
A FLY IN THE OINTMENT: Study determines insects do indeed feel pain, findings raise ethical concerns about farming insects for food
SHIVALI BEST: Researchers from Queen Mary University of London claim that insects feel pain, 'most likely' because they have central nervous control…