TRADING IN SHAMING: Are childless people who adopt ‘pets’ selfish?
ZOE WEIL: On January 5, 2022, Pope Francis spoke in Rome and described people who have pets instead of children as selfish. He went on to say that…
STUDY: Crows keep special tools extra safe
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT: Just like humans, New Caledonian crows are particularly careful when handling their most valuable tools, according to a new…
PEACE IN THE WILD: The rhino that became an icon for peace
GEETANJALI KRISHNA: The call came at midnight on 1 September 2008. One of the first greater one-horned rhinos, brought 400km (250 miles) from…
‘And the innocent slay thou not, for I will not justify the wicked’: Pig heart transplant recipient stabbed a man seven times
LIZZIE JOHNSON: Leslie Shumaker Downey was at home babysitting her two grandchildren Monday when a message pinged on her cellphone. Her daughter had…
Karen Davis: What does it mean to be an ‘animal lover’?
KAREN DAVIS: The term “animal lover” sounds like a relic of a bygone era, pre-1990s at least. For modern animal rights advocates, “animal lover”…
MORAL ENEMIES: FDA blocks and ignores technology alternatives that would likely end outdated and cruel animal testing
DAVID GORTLER: Recently the FDA scolded Americans interested in Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment by tweeting “You are not a horse. You are not a…
DR. EVIL AT WORK: Fauci’s NIH division paid $205K for researchers to study transgender monkeys
PATRICK HAUF: Dr. Anthony Fauci's division of the National Institutes of Health paid over $200,000 during the coronavirus pandemic for researchers…
The Social Lives of Animals: They talk, mourn and are just like us
JAMES McCONNACHIE: We like to think we are a very special species. We base this claim not just on our intelligence, but on the richness of our…
Will Tuttle: The pandemic and the goddesses of retribution
WILL TUTTLE: In ancient Greek mythology, the three Furies (the Erinyes) were goddesses of retribution who punished human beings for committing…
‘QUITTING DAIRY’: Dutch animal rights group banned from saying dairy causes serious animal suffering
DUTCH NEWS: Animal legal rights campaign group Dier & Recht must remove posters saying separating a calf from its mother at birth constitutes…