Veal calves are brutally treated their whole lives, long before they reach a slaughter house like Bushway. Veal calves are those male calves that are unwanted and removed from their mothers immediately after birth; they are confined often by tethers

There is a debate over whether just any animal and particularly wild animals can or should be service animals. In just the last month two federal courts, one in Arizona and one in Missouri, found nonhuman primates in those particular situations could not

Orangutans used to live all across east Asia, but now have been restricted to just the small Islands of Borneo and Sumatra in South East Asia. This is mainly due to logging in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, which used to cover vitrually all of

About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,

It's 10:35 a.m. on an April day at the headquarters of Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. A woman in a gray uniform is busy dispatching personnel to the scene of a car accident in the preserve that occurred just moments before I walk in the door.

A Long Island woman is accused of kidnapping and murdering neighbors' pets with the help of her children, and burring them in her backyard, sources said. Sharon McDonough, 43, was arrested Saturday and charged with animal cruelty. Authorities have

A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one

In Spain, the bullfight is on its way out. In Britain, it was fox hunting, which is now illegal. In the U.S., we have our own shameful traditions, including slavery, to dwell on. And in South Africa, apartheid may be a thing of the past, but another

Update Nov. 2, 2009: A Congressional staff member has confirmed to Animal Law Coalition that the House Natural Resources Committee is calling on BLM to stop all gathers or removals of wild horses and burros until Congress takes action on the controversial

Every day, people enjoy roughly 1.4 billion cups of coffee. That's a lot of coffee. More importantly, all those grounds add up in landfills across the world. But coffee grounds offer more then just a fantastic and addictive drink; use the grounds around y