animal rights

The facility has been under increasing scrutiny for months, drawing concerns from animal rights groups, members of Congress and Virginia lawmakers.

The nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the lives of millions of hens in response to new laws and demands from restaurant chains.

Dolce & Gabbana says it will drop the use of animal fur in all its collections starting this year, and transition to eco-friendly faux fur

On Thursday, a vigil was held in Pico Rivera, California for the cows that escaped a slaughterhouse on Tuesday.

A handful of topless protesters joined around two dozen fully-clothed ones on Thursday to denounce a Manhattan retailer’s “cruel” use of coyote fur and goose feathers.

The New York City carriage horse that was spooked by a screaming pedestrian with an umbrella, crashing into three cars and injuring three people has retired.

A horse pulling a carriage near Central Park was spooked by an umbrella and hysterically crashed into three parked cars, police said.

Confronting images of a horse said to be collapsing in Central Park this week has sparked cries for an investigation into the horse’s welfare.

An animal-rights group announced Wednesday it has lodged a federal complaint saying that a recently opened hippopotamus attraction at the Los Angeles Zoo violates federal law by allowing visitors to come into contact with a hippo family.

A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday.