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Hidden in dark sheds, force fed other species body parts and waste, animals exist and die for the propaganda of "meat," that it tastes good, and is good for us. Nothing is further from the truth.
Those of us living in what we consider free societies often feel secure that if we comply by laws, pay our taxes, and maintain other civic duties we s...
Shocking a dog while he is doing something he thinks is fun -- something they've been bred to do for thousands of years -- seems particularly cruel, since it can forever link that pleasurable thing with the fear of an occasional unexpected jolt.
Switching to a plant-based diet can lessen your contribution to global warming and the overall use of resources. It can also boost your health.
When a Sudanese refugee, a grown man, was humiliated and abused at a military roadblock in northern Kenya, my journey to activism began; a soldier des...
Despite the huge progress made in promoting universal human rights, the advancement of animal rights has remained disturbingly stagnant throughout history.
A wire snare is cheap to make, easy to set and deadly for big cats. One recent victim close to my heart is a leopard called Ngoye. She is the central character of a project I started 10 years ago in Phinda, South Africa -- Panthera's Munyawana Leopard Project.
The use of animals in war goes much farther back than WWI, and much farther forward too, and spans more species and places than we would expect.
PETA's new campaign, "Never Be Silent," is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." It encourages everyone to speak up for others whose pain is often casually ignored.
Just as we require political ads to disclose the sources of their funding, we should make sure that these faceless front groups come out of the shadows and tell us up front -- on the ads themselves -- who exactly is paying for them.
Whether an animal welfare law will be effective often turns on whether it gets adequately funded. Having legislators seek that funding is crucial, especially when there are as many strong competing budget pressures as there are now.
One of the core problems modern Western people have is that we've forgotten that the rest of nature is alive. This is why we feel free to mistreat the land, the plants and the other animals -- to the point where we're actually destroying our own life support systems.
This is not as radical an idea as it may sound. The law is fully capable of making and unmaking "persons" in the strictly legal sense. But that would be unlikely to happen with whales, dolphins, or even great apes.
Beyond basic rights and freedoms, will some animals now claw back well-deserved royalties, residuals and rev-shares?
Komen does women a disservice by continuing to channel funds into animal tests, while other cancer charities have moved on from such old-fashioned abominations or never engaged in them to begin with.
Two longtime adversaries are leading an all-too-rare effort at compromise and cooperation: the United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States.
