Thousands of live farmed chickens roasted to death during UK heatwave
JOE ROBERTS: 'Thousands of chickens roasted to death inside in an intensive poultry farm as temperatures reached 38C last week. Workers at the Moy…
HUMAN(UN)KIND: Dog Brutally Beaten By Guards For Seeking Shelter From Rain Inside Building
SUMAN VARANDANI: 'Stray dog was brutally thrashed in the western Indian city of Mumbai when it tried to take shelter inside a building complex…
Research Dogs Kept in Dirty, Crowded and ‘Barbaric’ Conditions, Says Animal Rights Group
ISABEL VAN BRUGEN: 'Hundreds of dogs to be used in research are being kept in dirty, overcrowded, and “barbaric” conditions at a Virginia breeding…
99% of U.S. Farmed Animals Live on Factory Farms
MATTHEW ZAMPA: 'The idea of factory-farmed meat makes most people feel uncomfortable, so they justify eating animals by claiming their food was…
Animals’ body sizes shrinking from climate change, study finds
PHYS.ORG: 'University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers have collected clear evidence—over a 23 year period between 1976 and 1999—that climate change…
New research explores factors that lead people to moralize meat-eating
ART MARKMAN: 'There are many things we choose to do or not to do that don’t seem to tap into our moral sense... Many people choose to eat meat. For…
The Rich Emotional Lives of Chimpanzees and Goats
MARC BEKOFF: 'Studies of the emotional lives of numerous and diverse nonhuman animals (animals) consistently show that some humans wrongly…
No-Kill USA dashboard: See if the shelter in your community is No-Kill
BEST FRIENDS: 'Last year, about 733,000 dogs and cats were killed in USA’s animal shelters, simply because they didn’t have safe places to call home.…
UK’s PM says animal rights activists to be treated as domestic terrorists, BUT NOT climate change disruptors
MILKEY SMITH: 'Boris Johnson has suggested extremism rules developed to tackle domestic terrorism could be applied to anti-fox-hunting activists. Mr…
New York Is Officially the First State to Ban Cat’s Paw Amputation or Declawing
OLIVIA ROSANE: 'New York is officially the first state in the USA to ban cat declawing. The landmark bill passed the state legislature in June, but…