Do you know why people want to ban foxhunts? Because foxes are not only one of the earth’s creatures and deserve better than to be chased and killed in this cruel way, but also because they are pretty cool! No animal deserves to be treated like that. It’s cruel and [...]

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 [...]

I distinctly remember my outrage after reading an Associated Press clip just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, sometime near the late 80’s. It was a tiny press clip about an inch by two in size; and relegated to the back pages. What struck me as odd at the [...]

When most people think of sharks, they think of a human predator but the reality is quite different—humans are the shark predators. While the media reported 12 shark deaths, according to National Geographic, in 2011, a new report published in the journal Marine Policy estimates that each year humans are responsible for [...]

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 [...]

An Ontario judge will hear a motion today on whether “Darwin” the monkey found in an Ikea parking lot should be returned to a Toronto woman. Darwin’s owner, Yasmin Nakhuda, alleges that the tiny primate was illegally taken away from her by Toronto animal control officials. The monkey has been [...]

Marineland is set for a sweeping inspection of its mass animal graves by Ontario’s environment ministry. This week, the Niagara Falls tourist attraction will have to open its doors to government inspectors, who had no idea these mass graves existed because the park has no permits. There are reports that [...]

A wildlife protection group has announced that the elephant population in South Sudan could be eliminated in the next five years if poaching is not controlled. South Sudan, which became an independent nation last year after decades of civil war, has less than 5,000 elephants left according to the United [...]

A unique species of resident killer whales living off the coast of Washington’s iconic Puget Sound has unwittingly garnered the ire of big ag. Pacific Liberty Foundation, an infamously anti-environment property rights group, has filed a petition on behalf of two large Central California valley farms – Empresas Del Bosque [...]