A buoy and rope that was found entangling the whale was marked with the owner's name and number and was eventually traced to a Nova Scotia fisherman.

Another horse died at Southern California's prominent Santa Anita racetrack over the weekend, marking the third thoroughbred fatality at the facility in the last nine days, and the 26th fatality since December.

In the eyes of executives at the world’s biggest meat companies, slaughterhouse workers are disposable, just like the animals they process. Every year, 65.8 billion chickens live and die on factory farms. They spend their lives crowded into industrial feeding operations where they barely have enough room to flap their wings. Many suffocate and die to due overcrowding. It’s sad and sadistic, to say the absolute least, and slaughterhouse workers are not immune to the brutal conditions that the factory farming industry tries so hard to keep out of the public eye.

Dozens of activists have entered a pig farm in Abbotsford, B.C., on Sunday morning, days after "troubling" footage showing conditions inside the farm sparked an SPCA investigation. The video in question, released by PETA, appears to show female pigs and their piglets living in confined gestation crates, along with the bodies of some deceased pigs in varying degrees of decomposition at the Excelsior Hog Farm.

SeaWorld Orlando’s parent company reported another strong quarter of attendance, revenue and income growth to wrap up 2018, making the year one of the company’s best in the post-”Blackfish” era. That 2013 documentary, which criticized the use of captive killer whales in SeaWorld parks, led to years of slumping attendance at the Orlando park. But the company’s fortunes changed in 2013, as it reported positive results in each quarter.

California may ban all school dissections, thanks to new legislation. Assembly memer Ash Kalra introduced today AB-1586, the Replacing Animals in Science Education (RAISE) Act. The bill, co-sponsored by the non-profit organizations PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine), Social Compassion in Legislation, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), would replace animal dissections with modern, humane alternatives.

With veganism on the rise and entire supermarket aisles now dedicated to veggie and vegan food ranges, it’s a good time to consider what motivates people to go vegan. There are many reasons why people decide to cut animal products from their diet, but the negative health effects of excessive meat and dairy consumption and the enormous environmental impacts of industrial agriculture are popular ones. However, the suffering of billions of animals each year in factory farming, referred to in a 2015 Guardian article as one of the “worst crimes in history”, is the most powerful motivation for many, including myself.

Los Angeles has just become the nation's largest city to ban the sale of fur in a major victory for animal welfare activists around the world.

Despite its name, the National Chicken Council is most definitely not on the side of chickens. This year the NCC boasted in a press release that Americans would eat 1.39 billion wing pieces this Super Bowl Sunday alone, a staggering 27 million more than last year and a predicted record. That’s enough chicken wings to circle the earth three times—enough to go a third of the way to the moon and enough for every man, woman, and child in America to eat four apiece, according to Food & Wine magazine.

A pair of Florida congressmen reintroduced a bill last week that would make animal cruelty a felony nationwide. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act from Rep. Ted Deutch, D-West Boca, and Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, would target “crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating and impaling animals.” The measure would also address bestiality and other efforts to sexually exploit animals.

Undercover footage that appears to show extremely sick cows being smuggled into a Polish slaughterhouse and sold on with little or no veterinary inspection has raised alarm about standards in one of the EU’s largest meat exporters. Covert footage in a slaughterhouse in the central Polish region of Mazovia appears to show cows so sick that they are unable to...

The following is an open letter to people who boil animals alive. Dear Reader, Being boiled alive is easily one of the worst ways to die. Imagine this: As boiling water touches your body, your extremities are the first to burn. These extremities include your fingertips, which have more nerve endings than many other areas of your body.

Australian animal liberation activists locked down a farm at the end of last week, after footage emerged reportedly showing 'extreme violence inflicted on mother pigs and their babies'. This was the second time the 'Meat the Victim' activists have locked down Glasshouse Country Farms in Beerburrum. One scene shows babies being thrown across the room. Another scene shows a mother pig being killed in a laneway, thrashing on the ground for some time until she is dragged out by workers as others watch on.

South Korean officials on Thursday began to dismantle the country's largest canine slaughterhouse complex, as animal rights activists push to end the custom of eating dog meat. About one million dogs are eaten a year in South Korea, often as a summertime delicacy with the greasy red meat -- invariably boiled for tenderness -- believed to increase energy.

A few years ago I wanted to visit the best egg farm I could find. I had been inside an egg factory farm. I had seen a dozen sheds, each with a dozen rows of wire cages stacked two high and 150ft deep. Those cages were so small the birds inside couldn’t even spread their wings. They were half-starved, diseased, and undeniably miserable. Factory farming was clearly wrong, so I wanted to instead find a farm that represented an ethical and humane way to raise animals for food.

Spanish police are asking for help naming a rescued puppy that they plan to train as a new member of the force. Responding to a call, the authorities in Granada found a man kicking a German shepherd on the street. After stopping the man and rushing the dog to hospital, the officers decided to adopt and recruit the puppy.

The brand also announced a partnership dedicated to ending animal testing for cosmetics globally

The US government has decided to press ahead with controversial experiments on dogs, despite critics in congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary. The department for veterans affairs (VA) has approved the continuation of the testing, which it says will help doctors find new ways to treat wounded soldiers, according to USA Today. Researchers running the experiments will remove sections of the dogs’ brains that control breathing, sever spinal cords to test cough reflexes and implant pacemakers before triggering abnormal heart rhythms. All the dogs involved will ultimately be euthanised.

Controversial tests to proceed despite opposition from congress and others

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a landmark bill into law on Friday aimed at banning the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, authored by Democratic state Sen. Cathleen Galgiani, prohibits manufacturers to “import for profit, sell, or offer for sale” any cosmetic product that was developed or made using an animal test, if the test occurs after the law takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.