In recent years, major news outlets have started taking note of the animal movement, and including coverage of animal rights, welfare, and conservation issues on a daily basis. Check out our curated selection of top stories from around the world, updated every day.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Two-year-old anti-sealing petition still gaining signatures
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Lisa Simpson, a vegan? 20,000 fans petition “Simpsons” writers to take “Lisa the vegetarian” to the next levelVeganism is a movement in need of one animated second-grader to lead it to the masses VIDEO
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Review: ‘Neon Bull,’ With Creatures Great and SmallGabriel Mascaro’s film explores the connections between humans and animals played out against the setting of the Brazilian rodeo event known as vaquejada.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
What I Learned From Tickling ApesHumans aren’t so special. Animals think much more deeply than we imagine.
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“By explaining the smartness of animals either as a product of instinct or simple learning, we have kept human cognition on its pedestal under the guise of being scientific.” .
“Comparisons up and down this vast ladder have been a popular scientific pastime, but all we have learned from them is how to measure other species by our standards.…[Read more]
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
https://www.thedodo.com/monkey-trapped-25-years-1712477921.html
Monkey Was Trapped Between Two Buildings For 25 YearsFor the love of animals. Pass it on.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Man Repeatedly Sacrifices Safety Rescuing Dogs From Underground Meat Trade
Man Repeatedly Sacrifices Safety Rescuing Dogs From Underground Meat TradeMarc Ching has rescued 249 dogs to-date, despite being beaten, robbed, shot at and threatened with a machete.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Masked Men Attack And Mutilate Man Suspected Of Running Dog Fighting Ring
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Masked Men Attack And Mutilate Man Suspected Of Running Dog Fighting RingAt least 16 emaciated Pit Bulls were recovered from the mans home on Thursday.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Americans are gorging themselves on cheap meatHere's why we are piling more onto our plates.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
http://www.care2.com/causes/why-are-we-moving-rhinos-to-australia.html
Why Are We Moving Rhinos To Australia? | Care2 CausesIf South Africa can't control poaching, conservationists think the best plan is to move rhinos to Australia instead.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Your cat knows you’re upset — he just won’t comfort youCats have long been one of our most mercurial pets. Only now are we starting to understand what makes them tick
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Widening reach of blasphemy law, Egypt targets poet for Facebook post on sheepConvictions show how the courts have become a religious battleground.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2016/court-overturns-government-refusal-to-protect-wolverine
Court Overturns Government Refusal to Protect WolverineDescribing the wolverine as a “snow-dependent species standing squarely in the path of global climate change,” a federal judge today overturned an August 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refusing to grant this rare and elusive species any protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
These chickens now have dinosaur legs — but that’s not as weird as you might thinkGenetic engineering has produced dinosaur drumsticks.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
10,000 pigs die in Dutch factory farm fire - DutchNews.nlPigs on a factory farm. Photo: Depositphotos
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Taman Safari denies drugging photo prop lion, says it was just sleepyWas this cub drugged, or just really sleepy?
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Wolf Gordon Clifton posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago“Epidemic diarrhea” pretty well describes the stench of ham, bacon, and other pork products to people like myself not conditioned to eat them as children, but it turns out it’s actually a virulent, uncurable disease to which at least 10% of all U.S. pigs succumb before slaughter, yet whose existence the meat industry has used its economic and…[Read more]
5 disturbing facts the food industry doesn’t want you to knowMaybe take a pass on that morning bacon. You could be exposing yourself to epidemic diarrhea virus and worse
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
Inside the cloning factory that creates 500 new animals a dayA controversial Korean lab led by Woosuk Hwang is moving from cloning pets to endangered animals. But will cloning help or hurt these species?
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Unfortunately, for many critically endangered species whose habitats are soon to be destroyed, preserving their DNA so that more enlightened future generations might revive and reintroduce them may be their only realistic alternative to extinction. But this sounds like a very creepy operation, headed by a deeply unethical person motivated chiefly…[Read more]
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160220-do-fish-have-feelings?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook
How do we know whether fish have feelings too?Most of us agree that humans have consciousness - an ability to experience thoughts and emotions - but what about fish, do they feel emotions too?
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/06/chimps-more-human-than-we-think?CMP=share_btn_fb
The images of chimps thrilled me: do they show evidence of spirituality in the wild?A ritual with rocks observed in a study in Guinea has profound implications for our relationship with the animal kingdom
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 9 years, 8 months ago
