Tag: Animal Welfare - Page 3
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New Mexico Gun Store Sponsors Coyote Killing Contest
A gun store owner is hosting a contest to see who can kill the most coyotes this weekend, offering guns as a prize.
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Butterball Employees Caught Abusing Turkeys, Again (Video)
Mercy For Animals has again shown the abuse meted out upon turkeys at a Butterball factory farm in North Carolina.
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Wildlife Services Worker Posts Graphic Photos Depicting Wild Animal Abuse
Several conservation groups are now petitioning to have him fired.
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Green Gift Guide: The Animal Lover
From an über-adorable recycled iMac cat bed to shark adoption or soap that supports Gulf clean-up efforts, find the best gifts for your animal lover here.
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Vanishing Mustangs: Are America's Wild Horses In Danger of Disappearing?
More wild horses now live in government holding pens than in the wild, yet round-ups continue. Advocacy groups point out smarter management strategies to save the iconic mustang.
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Save Europe's Disappearing Cows, Say Campaigners
In Europe, there's a steady shift to intensive indoor farming of cattle. Animal rights campaigners are getting ready to fight back.
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Global Meat Consumption Falls Slightly in 2011
However, meat production is up, albeit slightly and less than in previous years.
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Wisconsin Invites Hunters to Kill 1/4 of its Wolves
Up until January of this year, Great Lakes wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act. But just ten months after being delisted, hunters are being given a chance to bait, trap, and shoot them for sport.
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UK Police Hunt for a Herd of Stolen Elk
The surreal nature of this headline masks a very real problem for farmers everywhere.
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Lab-Grown Leather: Cool or Creepy?
Modern Meadow plans to mass produce "tissue-engineered" animal skins by 2017. Would you wear it?
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Western Scrub Jays Call Their Friends to "Funerals"
The call a jay makes upon finding a dead jay causes other jays to gather. Scientists report on their attempts to understand these "bird councils".
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Sharks Learn New Skills From Other More Successful Sharks
For the first time in cartilagenous fish social learning has been demonstrated.
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Genetically Modified Camel Milk Could Help Produce Pharmaceuticals
A ways off from commercial development, researchers in Dubai are attempting to make transgenic cloned camels, whose milk could help make cheaper drugs.
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Meowhaus is a Student Architect- Designed Home For Disabled Cats
It's for cats suffering from Cerebellar Hypoplasia and need a special home, and it is a very clever use of pallets.
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Limited Edition John Bartlett T-Shirts Help Farm Animals
The vegan fashion designer teams up with Farm Sanctuary of behalf of abused and neglected animals.
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Most Popular Articles of July: Crocheted Playgrounds, 1 Confused Chicken, No-Bake Desserts, and More
A fiber artist creates magical crocheted worlds for children. We also have extinct animals in photos, 10 no-bake deserts, and more.
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Thai Tourist Trade Contributing to Burma Elephant Trafficking
A new video from the Ecologist Film Unit shows how baby elephants are being smuggled into Thailand from Burma for tourism.
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Vaccines Used on Factory Farms Causing New Resistant Viruses
It's not just bacterial diseases that are developing resistance to the medicines required to be administered to keep animals from dying on factory farms.
