Controversial plans to grow human organs inside animals set to go ahead in Japan
STEPHEN MATTHEWS: 'Controversial plans to grow human organs inside the bodies of animals have moved one step closer to going ahead in Japan...…
Chinese tourists murder kangaroo, hurling bricks to make it hop
AFP: 'Visitors to a zoo in southeastern China killed one kangaroo and injured another by throwing bricks at them in an attempt to get a reaction…
Choosing Animals Over People?
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: 'Are we betraying our own species when we write checks to help gorillas (or puppies or wild horses)? Is it wrongheaded to fight…
More than one-thousand trapped and abandoned farm animals die in Spanish floods
CRISTINA ABELLAN MATAMOROS: 'Abandoned animals drowned after a nearby river burst its banks in Zaragoza, a province in the northeast of Spain.…
Tortured for fur: Terrified foxes fattened in cages to be slaughtered for UK market
RUSSELL MYERS: 'Farms producing fur for the UK market have been exposed for caging animals in sickening conditions. An undercover investigation in…
The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation
SOUTIK BISWAS: 'What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely…
One Hongkonger’s mission to get pets saved from Chinese dog meat festival to new homes
EMILY TSANG: 'One Hongkonger is recruiting volunteers to join a trans-Pacific rescue mission getting dogs saved from the Yulin dog meat festival…
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay reveals he’s ‘going to give this vegan thing a try’
OLIVIA PETTER: 'Gordon Ramsay has revealed he is going to try following a vegan diet. While the three-Michelin-star chef has yet to explain his…
‘Discarded like rubbish’: Swedish zoo kills hundreds of rescued lizards with liquid nitrogen
RT NEWS: 'More than 500 exotic lizards were dipped in liquid nitrogen after a Swedish zoo failed to find proper homes for them. The animals had…
Rescue dog who escaped kennel at Canadian airport shot dead after running onto runway
CHELSEA ROBINSON: 'A Canadian rescue dog, who was on her way to a foster home, was shot dead at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson…