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...
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...
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...
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...
Laurie David | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
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.
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...
Reedu Taha | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
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.
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...
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...
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...
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
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.
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
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.
Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.
Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
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.
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: ...
Pedro Nava | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
There is an uncontroverted link between animal abuse and domestic violence, elder abuse, and child abuse. Animal abusers have little respect for human life.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Ari Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
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...
AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York