How industrial meat and dairy trap us in an infectious disease cycle.

A new investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice that goes into making your bacon.

A year-long investigation uncovers a sadistic abuse network stretching from Indonesia to the US.

Authorities attempt to find a permanent habitat for it as activists criticise its "brutal" treatment.

Elephants may be known for their size and strength, but tourists who ride on their backs can still do great harm, as this photo shared by a wildlife rescue group in Thailand shows.

Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig factory farms to feed the country’s appetite for pork. The agro-industrial phantasmagoria grows in scale with every iteration.

New York became the tenth state to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a measure into law Thursday evening.

The world’s biggest single-building pig farm has opened in Hubei province, but critics say it will increase the risk of larger animal disease outbreaks

Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagree

Authorities have seized around 300 dogs from a property in Nevada in what officials have described as a "large-scale" animal cruelty situation. Detectives from Nye County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) obtained a search warrant for a property in Amargosa Valley following an investigation and visited the location on Tuesday.

Experts claim that deadly spillovers of disease between livestock and wildlife are increasing with the growth in intensive methods

Columbia University reportedly paid a $2,000 fine to settle charges under the Animal Welfare Act connected to Oz’s research.

A federal judge has struck down the third attempt by the Iowa Legislature to stop animal welfare groups from secretly filming livestock abuse.

Hearing granted for Humane League, which says use of fast-growing chickens breaches welfare rules

Oil-crisped tentacles, paper-thin carpaccio and octopus meat plump from slow-cooking have been popping up on restaurant menus across the country, where the long-time Mediterranean ‘superfood’ is fast being adopted as the British gourmand’s dinner-plate darling. What was once an exotic holiday meal is now consumed to the tune of 1,300 tons per year in the UK, up 12-fold since 1990. In the decade to 2019, the global trade doubled to a value of more than £2 billion.

"People are battling each other to get to the monkeys and to have these monkeys for research,” one expert told VICE World News.

More than a million meat chickens are dying every week in the UK before reaching slaughter weight, according to a new report. An analysis of government figures by the animal welfare charity Open Cages reveals about 64 million chickens die prematurely each year in the UK. The dead birds can be incinerated or rendered into usable materials such as protein meal.

How well we lionize physical courage while repudiating bravery’s rarer form — moral courage. That’s the ability to know what is right, writ-large, and what is wrong (no matter what the law) and then to act on it, not for self-profit or glory or even selfies, but because not acting is intolerable.

A diverse group from the equine industry, along with several animal welfare organizations just announced the “Final Stretch Alliance to End Horse Slaughter”—a collaborative effort to permanently ban the unnecessary slaughter of American horses. In an open letter to congressional leaders, including U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and U.S. Senators...

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually.