Aussie Plan to Kill Wild Cats Will Hurt More Animals
The Australian government has announced a new plan to protect wildlife by killing two million feral cats by the year 2020. The plan calls for baiting,…
Cecil Is the Least of It
At least Walter Mitty didn’t harm anyone in his fantasies of a heroic life. The same can’t be said for Walter Palmer, a nonentity who imagined…
Hercules and Leo: Judge’s Decision
Justice Barbara Jaffe at the hearing for Hercules and Leo July 30th: Justice Barbara Jaffe has issued her ruling on whether the two chimpanzees held captive…
Ocean Circulation May Be Shutting Down
Remember the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, where fresh water from melting polar ice pours into the North Atlantic, pushing down the warm salt water…
The End of Capitalism?
On December 25th, 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union came to an end. The communist system that…
Secrets of the Dolphin Brain
Two dolphins who died more than 10 years ago after becoming stranded on a beach in North Carolina have just given a team of scientists some…
End These Religious Festivals Now!
It’s hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for people like 20-year-old Benjamin Miller, who required three hours of surgery last February after being gored…
Mass Extinction and the Confederate Flag
I’m as horrified as anyone else at the terrorist attack that left nine people dead at a historic South Carolina church. And I’m disgusted by the…
Pope Francis and Mother Earth
Those who say that the Pope shouldn’t get involved in the issue of what’s happening to Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are either very stupid…
Pigs: Smart & Machiavellian
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that,…
Chimps Cooking … and Starving
How do you put together these three items in the latest news about chimpanzees? For the first time ever, a judge in the United States orders…
Hercules & Leo Hearing Wrap-Up
Here’s a round-up of news reports about the court hearing yesterday regarding chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, who are being imprisoned at Stony Brook University for use…
Chimpanzees v. New York State
This week, the Nonhuman Rights Project goes to court to argue before a judge that Hercules and Leo, two chimpanzees being held captive for locomotion experiments…
Walmart’s Animal Welfarism
Animal welfare groups are jumping for joy over Walmart’s latest animal welfare announcement. But it’s hard understand why. The company is asking its suppliers “to engage…
Almost Toast
You might reasonably assume that the red line in this diagram illustrates what happens if humankind takes no action at all on climate change. But no,…
Humane Certified Salmonella
Foster Farms, a factory farm outfit that’s responsible for the worst salmonella outbreak on record, was the subject of a major investigative report by PBS’s Frontline…
Gov. Christie at the Pig Trough
Remember last November when Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would ban the use of gestation crates for mother pigs at factory farms in New…
Is Princess Charlotte an Animal?
Last week, when zoo officials in Japan named a baby monkey Charlotte in honor of the newborn British princess, they set off a storm of protest.…
The Sinkhole Swallowing Southern Utah
The road to a planned development that’s been scrapped because the water table is drying up and creating sinkholes. Here in the beautiful red rock country…
Chickens with Flu and Pigs Who Dive
A few items from around the world of factory farming this week: Bird Flu in the U.S.: As of Tuesday, May 5th, just under 26 million…