Ingrid Newkirk

With George Zimmerman's upcoming trial in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the role that racism may have played in this incident will continue to be a heated topic of debate. And while these discussions may be uncomfortable, they should be welcomed since only by bringing prejudices to light do...

Cows are gentle, interesting animals. They don't advertise anything unless someone spraypaints a slogan on their sides. The California Milk Processor Board (CMPB) has done almost everything short of that in its increasingly bullish efforts to push consumers in the direction of the dairy case. For the last few years,...

Donald Trump's sons are no chip off the old block, as The Donald, who helped get the diving horse off the Atlantic City pier, is against hunting on ethical grounds. But Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are the targets of more media scrutiny than Barack Obama's birth...

After Susan G. Komen for the Cure came under a firestorm of criticism for cutting off hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood for administering breast exams to low-income women, Komen announced that it is reversing its position and will reinstate the existing...

The annual bloodbath that comprises the largest kill off of marine mammals in the world, the Newfoundland seal "hunt" (a misnomer if ever there was one), is scheduled to start within weeks.

For years, world leaders including Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, scores of international stars (going back to that...

The young royals are a delight to behold - such good ambassadors for the United Kingdom with their gleaming white smiles, perfect posture and impeccably tailored clothes. But, like a horror film in which the beguiling love interest strips off his mask to reveal an alien monster's face beneath, the...

Years ago, during World War I, British and German soldiers did something that horrified their superiors: they called an unauthorized truce on Christmas Day in 1914, climbing out of their trenches and sharing cigarettes, rations, family photographs, jokes and songs with their mortal enemies, the men they would later attempt...

On my desk, there's a cartoon of a swamp with the caption "Those who throw objects at the crocodile will be obliged to retrieve them," so I'm no Buddhist. But at this time of year, amid the hurly-burly of last-minute present-buying and travel, I do tend to calm down and...

SeaWorld got away with it once, using political bullying to force California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) not only to back down from its prediction that it was "only a matter of time" before a trainer would be killed by an orca, but also to grovel and apologize for...

All movements for social change take forever -- especially if you are the one in shackles, up the chimney, or having your bottom pinched at work. Finally, the chimpanzees' moment is approaching. Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett -- a former Navy physiologist who once experimented on primates --

Beer, bulls and blood. Oh, and tourists so soused that they can't even pull their pants up after adding another stinking outpouring of urine to the already saturated cobblestones. These have all come together in the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain, kicked off...

There's no question that four-time Super Bowl winner Terry Bradshaw is a champion, but, vested interest aside, why is he talking up an industry in which even winners are losers?: horse racing. Footballers can retire with money in the bank, but ten thousand castoff athletes who are thoroughbred...

By now, unless you were in Osama bin Laden's cave throughout April, you know all about how badly GoDaddy's CEO miscalculated when he challenged the boundaries of how mean to animals a CEO can be and still get away with it. He shot an elephant in cold blood...

PETA's Ashley Fruno has been working in Sendai and the surrounding areas since the first flight into Tokyo after the tsunami. She is helping people who wouldn't go into shelters there because they can't take their animals and their animals are family to them. Stories of reunions abound....

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities -- not something that they chose. People trap them and poison them, and now the former fighter Mike Tyson is going to showcase how...

As Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico packed his bags and prepared to relinquish his office, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave him a beautiful going-away present. It was something that the governor had journeyed to Washington back in August to ask the NIH to do: call a halt...

In the wake of Pope Benedict's controversy-igniting comment that condom use may be acceptable under certain circumstances to reduce the risk of HIV infection, PETA has started some controversy of its own. We're seizing the opportunity to draw attention to dogs' and cats' inability to control their burgeoning overpopulation problem,...

First, there was the jaw-dropping story of a British woman who was caught on camera tossing an affectionate cat into an outdoor trash bin. Then, it was an Eastern European girl slinging crying puppies into a fast-moving stream. Now, right here in America, some people have imprisoned a dog inside...

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

Imagine what it must...

New Mexico's Governor Richardson met with National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials this week in a last-ditch effort to stop NIH from moving 202 "retired" chimpanzees out of Holloman Air Force base and back into invasive experiments. NIH is moving swiftly to transfer the chimpanzees into facilities so substandard that...