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…
HOMEWARD BOUND: More than 4500 beagles to be freed from hideous U.S. research lab, judge approves plan for adoption
MERRITT CLIFTON: Running out of patience with the laboratory animal supply company Envigo, U.S. District Court Judge Norman K. Moon late on July 1,…
Sherry F. Colb: Are women ‘livestock’?
SHERRY F. COLB: I recently received a flood of nasty messages... in response to a rather modest critique of Samuel Alito's 'Dobbs' opinion that I…
We the Animals: Declaration of Rights and Independence for Animals
"To the animals who have been killed by human greed, selfishness, and bloodlust. In their names, and in the names of current and future generations of…
HELL FACTORY: Inside China’s secret slaughterhouse where stolen ‘pets’ are blowtorched
JOSH SAUNDERS: Lifeless bodies lay strewn across the blood-and-urine-drenched floor next to a tank filled with crimson-coloured water – it was…
WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP: Animal activists sue Costco after releasing chicken factory farm undercover video
LISA FICKENSCHER: Costco was slapped with a shareholder lawsuit alleging the popular low-cost rotisserie chickens sold by the wholesale club are…
Meat, Monopolies, Mega Farms: How the U.S. food system fuels climate crisis
AMANDA SCHUPAK: Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food systems contribute about a third of all…