A member of the Comanche Nation, Voelker learned about the importance of eagles and their feathers in American Indian culture and rituals from his father

South Florida is seeing a jump in the horse meat market as restaurants quietly serve up the illicit fare, butchers provide it to trustworthy customers and police officers find slaughtered horse carcasses on roadsides.

An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder

An Australian town with deep historical ties to Japan has severed its sister city relationship with a Japanese village to protest an annual dolphin slaughter, civic leaders said

The skies next month will be filled with thousands of dogs, cats and other creatures escaping death row through the kindness of strangers. From Sept. 12 to Sept. 20, small-plane pilots.........

USDA statistics show that, in 2008, the US exported 56,731 horses to Mexico and 77,073 horses to Canada for slaughter, resulting in the second highest slaughter total since 1995. Diners abroad eat American horsemeat shipped from plants across our borders.

This photo was taken in the back room of a Petland store in Akron, Ohio, and posted on Facebook by Elizabeth Carlisle, who can be seen grinning as she holds two dead, soaking-wet rabbits by the scruff of the neck--rabbits she just drowned while on Petland

Speciesism is an ideology--a belief system-- that human animals are superior to non-human animals. This belief is usually upheld by two reasons.

"After thoughtful consideration and reviewing medical research, we have determined it is in the best interest of the pets we treat, as well as the overall practice, to discontinue performing these unnecessary cosmetic procedures,"...

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