DEATH IN A FUR COAT: The minks, the virus, and the massacre
JULIA VERGIN: The pictures from Denmark are hard to bear. They show minks being gassed and millions of the animals being buried in mass graves using…
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: The lives of animals behind the products we consume
JO-ANNE MCARTHUR: Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene is a collection of work by 40 photojournalists from around the world, documenting the lives of…
FELINE PHILOSOPHY: What humans can learn from cats
SEAN ILLING: Humans might be the smartest animal on this planet, but are we the wisest? Wisdom, after all, isn’t really about knowledge. Humans are…
THE SPECIESISTS WITHIN: PETA’s employees revolt against organization’s plan to speak-up for animals on MLK Day
EMILY SHUGERMAN: Employees of the People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are revolting against the organization’s plan to “speak up for…
TOO MANY TO COUNT: More than 111 million mice and rats are tortured in U.S. labs
DAVID GRIMM: The most numerous mammals in U.S. research are also the most invisible. Mice and rats comprise the vast majority of lab mammals, yet no…
NO SHERIFF IN TOWN: Animal rights activists assaulted for confronting illegal cockfighting event
LIAM NEIMEYER: Members of an Illinois-based animal protection group say one of their members was assaulted and another was driven off the road…
PARTIDO ANIMALISTA: The rise of vegan and animal rights political parties in Spain and European Union
DIEGO TORRES: The green wave sweeping parts of Europe could take on a more radical form in Spain. Green parties have been gaining ground in…
THE ROAD TO PERDITION: What We’ve Lost – Animal Species Declared Extinct in 2020
JOHN R. PLATT: A few months ago a group of scientists warned about the rise of “extinction denial,” an effort much like climate denial to…
EDITED FOR YOUR PLEASURE: Britain’s new gene-editing plan ‘dark day’ for animals, would cause real suffering
JANE DALTON: Gene-editing will be bad for animal welfare and bad for efforts to curb greenhouse gases, organic farmers and environmental experts…
MURDER BY ANY OTHER NAME: Fishermen kill whale trapped in Japan’s infamous cove by forcing head underwater
SAM HANCOCK: A juvenile minke whale has been killed by fishermen off the coast of Taiji, a town in Japan notorious for its annual dolphin cull, 19…