EXPOSED: USDA now only partially inspects some lab animal facilities, internal documents reveal
DAVID GRIMM: In February 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a significant — and apparently secret — change to how it oversees…
#FreeHappy: New York’s highest court will hear ‘Habeas Corpus’ case on behalf of imprisoned elephant
COLIN KALMBACHER: The New York Court of Appeals – the highest court in the Empire State–agreed to hear a major animal rights case... The decision…
THE LION AND THE LAMB: God’s plan for animals is a theology that we can all understand
CHARLES C. CAMOSY: Over the past decade in Christian theological circles, there’s been an explosion of concern for nonhuman animals... While much of…
THE RIGHT TO BE WILD: Should humans try harder to protect ‘wild’ animals from predators and disease?
DYLAN MATTHEWS: Agricultural scientists working in the industry or at research universities have learned tremendous amounts about how farmed animals…
SMALL WONDERS: Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants
BROOKE JARVIS: It is telling, the entomologist Eleanor Spicer Rice writes in her introduction to a new book of ant photography by Eduard Florin…
KINDRED SPIRITS: Oscar-winning documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’ celebrates worth of other species
JEN REEDER: In the opening moments of the Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher” — which took home a 2021 Oscar for best documentary feature — an…
R.I.P. Elliot Katz: Fervent animal rights activist who was arrested 37 times is dead
LILA SEIDMAN: Dr. Elliot Katz, a fierce animal rights activist and veterinarian who helped shape the modern movement with his advocacy group In…
TWO EVIL FOR HELL: The Secret and Cruel Footage of National Rifle Association’s Leader and Wife Shooting Elephants
MIKE SPIES: After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, told…
DESIGNED FOR GENOCIDE: Florida releasing up to a billion genetically modified mosquitoes to exterminate species
STACY LIBERATORE: The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech company, are starting the first-ever U.S. release…
NEVER MIND: Why do we care how smart animals are? Maybe we shouldn’t
SIGAL SAMUEL: From the 1993 blockbuster Free Willy to the recent Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, a core premise of the animal rights…