UK butchers ‘living in fear’ as vegan attacks on the rise
HELENA HORTON: 'According to the Countryside Alliance, death threats, stoked by social media and encouraged by international groups of activists,…
Using virtual reality to show the reality of factory farming
STEPHANIE STROM: 'For years, animal-rights advocates trying to expose bad practices in the meat industry have surreptitiously shot grainy…
Abomination: Hybrid human-chicken embryos created in US lab
SEBASTIAN KETTLEY: 'A team of stem cell researchers have done the seemingly impossible and successfully combined artificial human cells with the…
Recognizing The Other Wartime Animals: They Had No Choice BUT ‘Serve’
GRAHAM HILLARD: 'Honoring the animals that worked and (were SACRIFICED) alongside soldiers and sailors... The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals…
PETA Names the Top Ten Vegan-Friendly Cities of 2018
PETA: 'Vegan eating is booming all over the country, as more people discover how it helps the Earth, our health, and animals. The release of films…
Humankind: Closer to Beast Than Angel
FRANS DE WAAL: 'Nonfiction sections of our bookstores feature two radically different kinds of books on the human condition. They update the age-old…
That Python in the Pet Store? It May Have Been Snatched From the Wild
RACHEL NUWER: 'In the market for a new pet? Maybe something a bit exotic? For many consumers, reptiles and amphibians are just the thing: geckos,…
Government crackdown on Egypt’s animal-drawn cart owners intensifies
MENNA A. FAROUK: 'Egypt’s animal-drawn cart owners are struggling as the government has intensified its crackdown on them in the last few months in…
NO amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts
MARTIN BAGOT: 'No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to a new global blueprint on how to beat cancer. Even small amounts of…
Animal rights group blasts Indiana University medical school for killing 116 lab animals
SHARI RUDAVSKI: 'An Ohio-based animal rights group is calling upon the Indiana University School of Medicine to fire staff and conduct an…