A Florida woman is facing dozens of charges of animal abandonment and animal cruelty this week after allegedly leaving a U-Haul filled with 53 animals...
Puppy mills, by definition,
come up short on animal welfare, taking moral and practical shortcuts in order
to churn out dogs for the pet trade - by co...
On this week's episode of Gwissues, I spend time with gay animal rights activist Dan Mathews, Senior Vice President of PETA. Mathews chit-chats with me about PETA regularly remaining ahead of the curve with its creative campaigns.
"The principle of confinement in so-called animal science is derived from the industrial version of efficiency. The designers of animal factories appe...
Stunned by repeated exposés revealing inhumane treatment of animals, big ag lobbyists are working to prevent Americans from finding out about animal abuse, rather than working to prevent it. And now Orwellian euphemisms are being pushed as so-called solutions?
After the trauma that he had suffered on the bile farm, it took some time for him to feel relaxed in his new spacious surroundings and trust those who were caring for him. To him, humans meant pain and cruelty.
April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, and the ASPCA is urging supporters across the country to support their efforts to fight animal cruelty. This post is dedicated to their efforts, and to the efforts of animal lovers everywhere who spend time saving all animals from cruelty and danger.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A bill that would have limited undercover farm animal abuse investigations has been pulled by its author amid stiff and growing ...
SUMMITTVILLE, Ind. -- A prosecutor said Friday that an Indiana barn where investigators found starving animals living on top of more than 100 rotting ...
At racetracks, much depends on the integrity of trainers who too often regard their equine athletes as expendable machines that can be worked to the point of breakdown and then discarded.
We need to look at every government agency that either uses animals or is responsible for animal control to determine if low cost alternatives are available for research experiments or population control.
Corporations, and governments too, have an incentive to limit the freedom of the press. These are powerful entities, often in cahoots, that can and will ignore the First Amendment when they can get away with it.
A "self-proclaimed animal lover" in Des Moines, Iowa, has been charged with animal torture after allegedly hanging her boyfriend's dog in the garage. ...
A woman from Wewoka Okla., will be charged with animal cruelty after authorities say they discovered between 20 and 30 dead horses, and another 64 suf...
April has more pet awareness events than any other time of year.. But why do we even need to have a month filled with reminders that we have to continue to bring cruelty to animals to the forefront of the news?
We must ask ourselves why we make arbitrary distinctions between the animals that allow some to end up in our homes and others to end up on our plates. If you wouldn't accept this treatment for an animal in front of you, why accept it for an animal behind closed doors?
Why did we set up a tableau that nearly caused London's taxi drivers to crash into each other on one of the city's busiest streets? Because Fortnum & Mason still has the indecency to sell foie gras, a "fancy foodstuff" that causes so much suffering that it is illegal to produce it in the U.K.
There's a lot of violence in the world, but here's an area where all of us can make a positive difference, first in our own lives, and then in the lives of others. Together, we can spread compassion far and wide.