Boohoo online store faces backlash for banning wool products over animal rights concerns
EMILY MEE: 'Fashion website Boohoo has become the first UK mainstream retailer to ban the use of wool in its products - but has faced backlash over…
Ethical Views on the Use and Abuse of Animals
MARC BEKOFF: 'The use of animals is a contentious issue, but the ethical orientations that people draw on when evaluating different forms of animal…
Wildlife park visitors play tug-of-war with lions at UK’s Dartmoor Zoo
TERRI-ANN WILLIAMS: 'A 'moronic' zoo has been blasted for letting children as young as eight play a tug-of-war with lions and tigers in a…
Michael Gove: British dairy farmers must be protected from vegan activists
JACOB JARVIS: 'Dairy farmers require protection from vegan activists who cause "fear" and try to stop businesses from operating, Michael Gove said.…
The great escape: Chimps use branch as ladder to escape Belfast zoo enclosure
BEN QUINN: 'Chimpanzees have used a branch to escape from their enclosure at Belfast zoo in the second breach by animals in recent weeks. They took…
Campaigners urge South African zoo to move ‘lonely’ elephant Lammie to a sanctuary
CHRIS DYER: 'Lammie, the last African elephant at Johannesburg Zoo, and her mate Kinkel had been together for 17 years after he was rescued in the…
Australians join battle to stop brutal dolphin slaughter in Japan
JAKE STURMER: 'With dolphin-hunting season in full swing in Japan, Australian and Japanese environmentalists have launched legal action to try to…
Playing with God: Are GM mosquitoes the only way to wipe out malaria?
SOPHIE ARIE: 'Target Malaria, the name of the Imperial College-led research consortium, is just one of many projects exploring ways to engineer…
Animal Rights Group NhRP Dealt Another Blow in Fight to Free Elephants
ROBERT STORACE: 'The founder and president of an animal rights group that is trying to remove three elephants from a Connecticut-based petting zoo…
Congress must stop USDA’s animal experiments, says whistleblower
JIM KEEN: 'In December 2018, the US Senate introduced legislation called the Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now (KITTEN) Act, the companion to a…