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 11.30.2009 | 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 11.28.2009 | 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 11.23.2009 | 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 11.22.2009 | 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 11.18.2009 | 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 11.16.2009 | 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 | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
RICHMOND, Va. An executive for an anti-animal cruelty group says her 16-year-old blind and deaf dog died after she accidentally left him in her hot ca...
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.22.2009 | Comedy
Vick has paid his debt to society. Yes, he practiced killing and torture and violated the code of conduct he was sworn to uphold. That doesn't make him a monster. That makes him Dick Cheney.
Ed Sayres | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
We were the first animal welfare organization given the opportunity to work with Mr. Vick but turned him down due to the unique knowledge we had of his indescribable and barbaric acts of animal cruelty.
Global Post | Patrick Winn | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BANGKOK - It was a sad old beast, for sure. As the elephant dragged its feet towards city hall, the chains draped from its neck swung like twin pendu...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Michael Vick will need to realize that he triggered in his fans and certainly all animal lovers the 3 H's of Hurt, Hate and Hesitation to Trust. To reverse each of those he will need to respond with the 3 R's of Remorse, Restitution and Rehabilitation before those people will give him a second chance.
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago
On Chicago's South Side, Michael Vick spoke to at-risk youth and urged them not to get involved in dog-fighting, telling kids from personal experience not to go down this dead-end path.
Doyle Albee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Bring Vick back. Just make him work for it. The animals he tortured and killed deserve that, at the very least.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York
WEST HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. — A New Yorker convicted of animal cruelty has received three years of probation for running what a prosecutor called a "z...
AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York
BANTAM, Conn. — A Connecticut landlord has been accused of using a pellet gun to kill a cat on his property because the tenant didn't pay a $25 ...
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
No one could possibly think that trafficking in videos of women crushing small animals to death for sexual pleasure, or of people forcing two dogs to tear each other apart for entertainment and gambling, is a protected form of free speech.
New York Daily News | Jake Pearson and John Lauinger | Posted 09.01.2009 | New York
A young Brooklyn man hurled his dog from the roof of a Brooklyn housing project - but the pooch miraculously survived the six-story plunge, officials ...
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo along with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection hosted an exotic pet amnesty day on Saturday. The event ...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment
I believe in second chances. I believe that redemption is the soul of hope. I believe debts paid warrant fresh starts. Except when it comes to Michael Vick.
Carrie Pollare | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
How did we take something so simple -- the joy of finding and caring for a dog -- and turn it into such a mess?
AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green
DEARBORN, Mich. — Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and tras...
Ellen Susman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
The great Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how it treats its animals." If we are to be judged by his adage, then we have failed.
AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya seized more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn – some of it still bloody &n...
Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact