animal rights

Opinion: Mounting concern for both the treatment of animals on Canadian farms and the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture is fuelling an increase in activism

The killing of the gorilla Harambe is sad. But in choosing between its life and that of a human child, the choice was obvious

From 2016: After a long battle with animal rights groups, the era of the circus elephant is coming to a bitter close

For animal rights activists, the Kit and Ace pom-pom investigation comes balled up with questions of cruelty, labelling laws and social responsibility.

Barbara Amiel on the slums no one is talking about

Lennox is dead. The black “pit bull type” canine became an internet sensation over the past few weeks as authorities in Belfast prepared to execute him under the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1992, which outlaws such animals. Lennox was euthanized early Wednesday despite worldwide appeals from celebrities, including Americans who offered to find a new home for him in the U.S. The family was not allowed to visit the dog before his death, or to be present for it; they learned first from a radio interviewer that the council order had been carried out. They haven’t been given their pet’s body, either; they have instead been told by city council that his ashes will be mailed to them.

Consumers increasingly demand meals that are not only healthier, but more ‘natural’

The lands of foie gras and puppy mills are suddenly horrified by animal slaughter

They can understand numbers and abstract concepts and have their own distinct culture and traditions

Controversy over UBC experiments on monkeys

Animal welfare group wants to spare monkeys from Parkinson’s experiment on campus

MP’s family photographed wearing coyote fur