Animal Cruelty

Joseph Petcka, Actor Who Stomped Girlfriend's Cat To Death, Resolves Case With 500 Volunteer Hours

AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — An actor who stomped his girlfriend's cat to death has resolved his case with 500 hours of volunteering. Joseph Petcka worked at a N...

Sharon McDonough Held On $100,000 Bail For Suspected Pet Torture

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York


CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A judge ordered a New York woman held on $100,000 bail Friday after prosecutors cited evidence that some of the 42 dead an...

Joshua Linhares Killed Mother Duck: Driver Sentenced To 1 Year Probation

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green


NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A driver who ran over and killed a mother duck walking her 12 ducklings across a Massachusetts mall parking lot has been se...

Abby Toll Pleads "Impaired Mental Condition" For Taping Dog

Daily Camera | Vanessa Miller | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver


A former University of Colorado student who was arrested in April on suspicion of taping her boyfriend's dog to the refrigerator pleaded in court Wedn...

Eating Animals: Caring Is Not A Zero-Sum Game

Laurie David | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books


Laurie David

One of the many problems with Michiko Kakutani's lame and flamboyantly irrational New York Times review of Eating Animals is that it suggests her own irrelevancy.

Sacramento Fisherman Arrested In Sea Lion Shooting

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head. California game war...

The Barbi Twins: Why We Bear Our Claws

Reedu Taha | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living


Reedu Taha

Little more than one year after the death of the declawed cat that forever carved out a spot in my heart, I find great irony in the fact that the declaw ban is sweeping through my home state of California.

Eating A Deep Fried Fish That's Still Alive (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green


Eating "rare" delicacies just got to a new level. In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to...

Oreo, Dog That Surivived Roof Toss, Euthanized

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A young pit bull mix that survived being thrown off the sixth-floor roof of a Brooklyn building still was not fit to live because of ...

Sharon McDonough's Home Was An Animal 'Concentration Camp': Son

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities are investigating whether any of the more than 20 animal carcasses found in the backyard of a Long Island home are th...

Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books


Wayne Pacelle

Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.

Sharon McDonough Found With 20 Dead Dogs Buried In Yard: Officials

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal c...

Rascell Williams: Man Charged With Videotaping Cat Torture

AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York


SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making...

What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books


Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books


Rabbi David Wolpe

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books


Dr. Andrew Weil

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books


Natalie Portman

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books


Aaron Gross

Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

New Zealand Bunny Toss: Town Is Outraged That It's Cancelled (VIDEO)

Posted 10.25.2009 | Green


A North Canterbury town in New Zealand has canceled its historical dead rabbit toss and was greeted with fierce opposition from the locals. WATCH: ...

Animal Anti-Cruelty Legislation Awaits Governor's Action

Pedro Nava | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Pedro Nava

There is an uncontroverted link between animal abuse and domestic violence, elder abuse, and child abuse. Animal abusers have little respect for human life.

Supreme Court Hears First Amendment Case In Selling Of Dogfight Videos

The New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON -- Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wanted to know if Congress could ban a "Human Sacrifice Channel" on cable television. Justice Ruth Bader G...

Justice Scalia Stands Up For "People Who Like Dogfighting"

Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact


Supreme Court justices weighed arguments over a 10-year federal law that bans the creation and sale of commercially available videos that depict graph...

First Amendment Under Siege

The Huffington Post | Judy Platt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


I'm in hot water again at home. You try explaining to a family that loves all creatures great and small that you're defending the rights of a man sen...

Supreme Court To Hear Animal Sex Fetish Case; "Crush Videos," Dogfighting Footage May Be Treated Like Child Porn

Newsweek | Krista Gesaman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics


Kittens, brutality, fetish videos, and dogfighting--these aren't the elements of a twisted cable-television show; they're just some of the factors in ...

The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green


Ari Solomon

I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...