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SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program. Here's why.
"This year we will end all orca breeding programs — and because SeaWorld hasn't collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld's care. We are also phasing out our theatrical orca whale shows."
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‘No kill’ animal rescue is a disaster for animal welfare
‘No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death? In March 2013, my husband and I were on our way to a museum when we saw a sign advertising an adoption event at the Petco pet store on the Upper West Side in New York City. ‘Should we adopt another cat?’ my husband asked. We’d got our scaredy-cat Gilbert from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
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Maybe It’s Time to Take Animal Feelings Seriously
Dogs can read human emotions. So, it appears, can horses. Whales have regional accents. Ravens have demonstrated that they might be able to guess at the thoughts of other ravens — something scientists call “theory of mind,” which has long been considered a uniquely human ability. All of these findings have been published within the past several weeks, and taken together they suggest that many of the traits and abilities we believe...
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What Happens to Your Dog When You Get Arrested?
A lot of the time, the dogs go to a jail of their own. By Mike Pearl.
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A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’
As a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune in the months following 9/11, Will Potter was already growing weary of reporting on cops, crime, and shootings in the city. On a whim during some time off, he decided to help a group of activists hand out leaflets opposing animal testing. “It wasn’t what journalists usually do,” says Potter, now 37. “But I was feeling like I wasn’t making a difference in the world as a reporter.”
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Runkle: Tell your kids where lunch comes from
Ask almost any American child to draw a farm, and she will likely sketch a picture of happy animals in a sunny, green field next to a red barn. This is the fairy-tale image of agriculture we spoon feed children before they’re even old enough to read. Ask the fifth-grade students of Michael Fields, a science teacher in Arenac County, Mich., to draw a farm, and you might get a different image. Last month, Fields came under fire from parents and...
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Yellowstone To Slaughter Up To 900 Bison
At one time, there were as many as 60 million buffalo roaming North America, so many that they became the symbolic representation of our westward expansion. Unfortunately for them, they were also a popular food source for a rapidly expanding army of settlers, profitable for traders, and relatively easy to capture and kill. By 1884, there were only around 325 of the beasts left in the wild, with just 25 of them in Yellowstone National Park.
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Michael Jackson’s Pet Chimp, Bubbles, Is Living Out His Twilight Years in Florida
Bubbles plows a big blue bucket along the border of his enclosure, tracing an invisible line. His fleshy feet thud against the concrete path. "He's just letting us know he's here," one of his caretakers says. By Dyllan Furness. (Feb. 2)
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Germany becomes the first country to ban disturbing 'chick shredding' practice
Germany has just become the first country to outlaw the practice of ‘chick shredding’. Every year millions of male chicks are ground up alive or suffocated by the commercial egg industry. This is because male chicks don’t grow up into egg-laying chickens, and they’re not considered suitable to be slaughtered for meat. Around half of all chicks born into the egg industry are male, and end up being ‘shredded’ right after hatching.
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Horrifying video shows Petco supplier killing pets
WARNING: The following video includes disturbing content A farm in Pennsylvania that supplies animals to PetSmart and Petco has been slaughtering animals by the hundreds...
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It’s Almost Impossible to Ethically Justify the Use of Animals in Research
A conversation with ecofeminist Lori Gruen by Dayton Martindale.
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The FBI Now Considers Animal Abuse a Class A Felony
In a move seen as a big win for animal rights activists, the FBI has added animal cruelty to its list of Class A felonies, alongside homicide and arson. Cases of animal cruelty fall into four categories — neglect; intentional abuse and torture; organized abuse, such as cock and dog fighting; and sexual abuse of animals — and the agency is now monitoring them as it does other serious crimes. Starting January 1, data is being entered into the National Incident-Based Reporting...
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Monkey Can't Own Copyright To His Selfie, Federal Judge Says
The legal saga of the monkey selfie continues: On Wednesday, a federal judge said the macaque who famously snapped a picture of himself cannot be declared the owner of the image's copyright. At least, until Congress says otherwise. There's "no indication" that the Copyright Act extends to animals, U.S. District Judge William Orrick wrote in a tentative opinion issued Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco.
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A big win for animals: The FBI now tracks animal abuse like it tracks homicides
It was more than 10 years ago that Mary Lou Randour realized she couldn’t answer what should have been a simple question: Was cruelty against animals on the rise or in decline? Randour, a psychologist who switched careers to devote herself full time to animal rights advocacy, found there was no one keeping track of animal-abuse crimes. Even the most egregious cases, like dogfighting, fell under the category of “other” when local police agencies...
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This Mad Scientist Will Clone 100,000 Cows
This year, a Chinese company plans to open a massive factory to clone 100,000 cows. Just how far will this mass reproductive technology go? Two decades after the birth of Dolly the sheep—the world’s first successfully cloned mammal—the year 2016 will likely see the rise of mass-produced animal clones, thanks to an enterprising and madcap scientist in China.
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‘Ag-gag’ laws head to court: So far, animal rights activists are winning
A Wyoming judge allowed a case to go forward this week challenging the state's two new data trespass laws, saying he had 'serious concerns and questions about the constitutionality of various provisions.' By Warren Richey.
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Animal minds
The inner lives of animals are hard to study. But there is evidence that they may be a lot richer than science once thought.
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If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat
It's the kind of image that is really difficult to forget. A disturbing undercover video shot by an animal rights activist released earlier this month showed pigs being subjected to horrific conditions inside one of the nation’s largest pork processing plants. The video went viral and Hormel, the sole customer of that plant, has reportedly called for tighter controls and extra training as a result.
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The Case Against the Woman Who Dared to Give Water to Someone Else’s Pigs
Is it possible for us to provide a bit of humane treatment to livestock? They may have to prove they can fly first. By James McWilliams.
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In danger
The strange life and tragic death of Julia the gorilla. By Anna Krien.
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