Oreo, Dog That Surivived Roof Toss, Euthanized
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 ...
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 11.09.2009 | 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 10.20.2009 | 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...
Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact
PETA representatives have released a video comprised of footage taken during an undercover investigation of a Pennsylvania dairy farm that contracts t...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Over time, I am confident that most of the people who stand in the way of moral progress will be forgotten, just like most of the individuals who stood in the way of John Muir and Steven Mather.
The Associated Press | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor's backyard...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES Cook County sheriffs raided a suburban day care Tuesday after learning it was being used as a front for what officers describ...
Ari Solomon | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green
The next time you buy a new comforter or a warm jacket or a sleeping bag or some throw pillows, think first. There's a plethora of amazing alternatives to down.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Animal rights activists have released this shocking footage of baby seals being clubbed to death in Namibia. An estimated 80,000 seal pups are clubbed...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green
Animal welfare should be part of the Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio for any major corporation, and increasingly, companies are heeding the call.
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
DES MOINES, Iowa —(AP) The owner of a northwest Iowa egg hatchery where a video shows unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder says an ...
AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York