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Animal Rights

As Big Ag Targets Activists, Animal Rights Leader Arrested on Felony Charges for Saving Sick Baby Goat

Rain the goat

Hundreds Rally, Dozens Arrested in Effort to Save Chickens from 'Horrific Cruelty' at Industrial Egg Farm

Jon Queally, staff writer

When more Americans see "what's happening behind the doors of factory farms, they know it's against their values."

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Citing 'Common Good,' Nearly 1,500 Scientists Demand Congress Shield Endangered Species Act From GOP Attacks

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

BFF

Their call comes on Endangered Species Day and as the Trump administration and...

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piggies

"We need to work together around the country to stop factory farms and protect...

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otter

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fisher

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While Shooting Massacres of Kids Could Not, Dog Killed by Airline Spurs GOP Senator to Act Fast

chicken

Angering Organic Farmers and Advocates, Trump's USDA Kills Animal Welfare Rule

After Calling Practice 'A Horror Show,' Trump Reverses Ban on Animal Trophy Imports

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is startled by Cody the Dachshund

Corbyn's Labour Party Unveils Plan to Make UK 'World Leader on Animal Welfare'

"Victory" for Animals as Federal Court Smacks Down Parts of Idaho's Ag-Gag Law

As World Warms, Heart-Breaking Video Shows What Starving Polar Bear Looks Like

Conservation Groups Slam Trump's 'Reprehensible' Reversal on Elephant Trophies Ban

tiger

'Amazing News': Rights Groups Celebrate After Italy Bans Use of Circus Animals

Big Meat and Dairy’s Supersized Climate Footprint

The Pacific walrus

'Dark Day' for America's Wildlife as Interior Dept Denies Protections for 25 Species

Newswire

Direct Action Everywhere

Animal Rights Group Founder Arrested at Airport - Bail Set at $25,000

Greenpeace

Illegal Operations in Indonesia Threaten More than 1,000 Orangutans

Direct Action Everywhere

39 Arrested as Hundreds of Animal Rights Activists Occupy California Factory Farm

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Scientists Tell Congress: Don’t Strip Science Out of the Endangered Species Act

Food & Water Watch

Calling for a Ban on Factory Farming in the United States

Food & Water Watch

Groups to Call for First Ever National Ban on Factory Farming

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Views

Krissy Kasserman

Big Ag's False Solution

Patty Lovera

A Food Revolution: The Climate Case for a Factory Farm Ban

Kitty Block

Horrible Hundred Report Highlights Problem Puppy Mills in the U.S.

Glenn Greenwald

Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

Elizabeth Enochs

Steve King Wants to Force States to Hurt Animals—and People

Arshad Khan

Of Animals and Bees and Flowers Wild as Earth Day Nears

Kenny Torrella

McDonald's Once Made Progress on Animal Welfare, But Has Now Fallen to the Back of the Pack

Jill Filipovic

What the Death of a White Rhino Really Tells Us

Linda McQuaig

No More Silence About the Torture of Animals

Subhankar Banerjee, Terry Tempest Williams, et al.

Scholars for the Arctic Refuge

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