Laws making it illegal to document animal abuse or food-safety violations on farms are taking the nation by storm. There’s nothing like a proposed ag-gag law in California to burst my little bubble of faith in a progressive-thinking state. I was floored when I got the email asking for an [...]

Japanese makeup company Shiseido has banned animal testing for its products and vows to only test on animals on the off chance that an ingredient is deemed unsafe, according to Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). This comes in light of last month’s decision by the European Coalition to end animal experimentation by [...]

When the US government announced a new scheme to control the population of invasive brown tree snakes in Guam, it didn’t take long for PETA to object. It’s easy to understand why the plan makes animal lovers queasy: the US Department of Agriculture is planning to poison the snakes by [...]

Marineland is the home to mass animal graves—four mass graves with thousands of animals—even though the park has no permits. The park, which opened in 1961, contains the corpses of whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals and walruses, amongst other animals. “One of life’s sad truths is that animals sometimes die [...]

A federal Wildlife Services employee is under fire after pictures of gratuitous animal abuse and torture were posted on his Facebook page filed under “work.” Jaime Olson, a trapper for USDA Wildlife Services, looks to enjoy his job. Proudly displayed on his public Twitter account and on his Facebook, some [...]

After taking on the massive pet overpopulation issue with a ban on the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores, the Los Angeles City Council is now considering an outright ban on the use of wild and exotic animals in circuses. The Los Angeles Board of Animal Services Commissioners [...]

It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled – Mark Twain News outlets across the country are calling the newly released undercover video footage of workers at a dairy farm in Idaho stomping on cows stuck in the milking bars, dragging a sick [...]

To bypass our own Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Georgia Aquarium has petitioned the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Fisheries Service to allow it to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales currently being held in Russia. Sea World Parks, the largest marine park operator in the world, will most likely [...]

Amid a long list of various petitions and campaigns circulating addressing the consumption of dogs, and cats to a much lesser degree in South Korea, about 500 Korean Dog Meat Association members rallied Sept. 24 to demand the government legalize the farming of dogs for meat, saying there are at [...]

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting women in the United States, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer. Only very few species aside from humans develop the disease. So why do so many animals end up suffering because of a disease they don’t naturally develop? Because of its [...]