Tag: animal rights
The lab mouse paradox: Why science still depends on animals who...
Despite significant advances in human-based research, millions of mice and rats are still used in U.S. laboratories each year—at immense ethical and scientific cost.
Vermont installs beaver-saving, flood-preventing device
Beaver deceivers are known to be "humane infrastructure designed to regulate water levels while allowing beavers to remain in place."
Grassroots conservation efforts in Laos helps reintroduce critically endangered Siamese crocodiles...
With less than 1,000 surviving in the wild, this was a last refuge for one of the rarest reptiles left on Earth.
Ventilation shutdown is one of the cruelest ways to kill animals
The least humane way of culling poultry and pigs has become increasingly common.
The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and...
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Adidas follows global trend to end use of kangaroo leather in...
Adidas' announcement follows a global trend toward ethical and sustainable fashion, where Nike, Puma, New Balance, and Diadora also ended the use of kangaroo leather in its products in recent years.
Fur seal populations in California increase after near extinction
The population has grown rapidly, and in 2024, biologists recorded 2,133 fur seals, including 1,276 pups.
How a worker cooperative is mitigating the stray animal crisis in...
Houston’s Pet Care Co-op empowers humans and helps animals survive.
The Gilded Age of animal advocacy: A transformative era for America’s...
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.
States are doing a terrible job enforcing laws meant to protect...
Lack of law enforcement leads to needless suffering for sentient beings.
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Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.