Canada, Japan, and Norway consider horrific whale and seal hunting essential during pandemic
ARISTAS GEORGIOU: Animal rights groups have criticized the governments of Canada, Japan and Norway for continuing to allow commercial hunting of…
Largest shark-fin seizure ever: 26 tonnes taken from 38,500 endangered sharks
CLIFFORD LO: Hong Kong customs officials have made their largest shark fin seizure ever, uncovering 26 tonnes taken from 38,500 endangered sharks…
MAN-EATER: Can a book make you Vegan?
ELIZABETH SULIS KIM: Imagine a world where a virus rendered other animals inedible. Then, with people still craving the taste of meat, human…
INVESTIGATION: Horrific tax-payer funded “cranial window” experiments at Cleveland Clinic
PETA: Experimenters at the Cleveland Clinic call it a “cranial window.” Less euphemistically, it’s a hole in a mouse’s skull exposing the brain and…
STREET LIFE: India’s newfound respect for the country’s millions of free-roaming canines
DEEPA LAKSHMIN: India’s streets are home to roughly 35 million dogs, a number that’s grown by 17 percent since 2016. The majority live tough lives,…
ENDLESS SEPARATION: Humans Are Not the Only Ones In Quarantine
ASHLEY CAPPS: In addition to the logistical and financial crises so many continue to endure as a result of COVID-19, extended social distancing has…
DEAD END: Rather than ‘Cull’ Millions of Livestock, Let’s End Animal Agriculture
JOSEPH WINTERS: As the U.S. economy reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s meat producers are facing a logistical disaster... With nowhere…
‘ANIMAL 2003’: Monkey suffocated at U.S. research lab, according to complaint
JEFF MCDONALD: A research monkey was found strangled to death at a Sorrento Valley laboratory nearly two years ago, according to a federal complaint…
Horse-drawn carriages in Chicago banned by year’s end
ABDEL JIMENEZ: Horse-drawn carriages in Chicago will be a thing of the past after City Council voted 46-4 Friday to ban them by the end of the year.…
FOOLS’ ERRAND: If We Can Make Animals Smarter, Should We?
SHAYLA LOVE: In pockets of the real world, bioethicists, philosophers, futurists, and transhumanists are contemplating in a serious manner what it…