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VICTORY: Barbaric ‘Toro de la Vega’ Bull Stabbing Festival Finally Banned!
We’ve just received some wonderful news – a horrific annual “festival” in which men on foot and horseback pursue and stab a terrified young bull to death, has just been banned by the regional government in Spain.
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Can You Relate to This Vegan Student’s Dilemma?
When Aless started at her university, she had to make a choice about how to stand up for her principles.
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Video Footage Shows Squalid Conditions at One of the UK’s Last Wild-Animal Circuses
A recent investigation by ADI into one of the last circuses that still uses wild animals in the UK showed the shocking conditions the animals are kept in.
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This Elderly Dolphin Has Cancer – but Is Still Being Forced to Perform
Despite his illness, Bucky is still being made to drag tourists around on his back, jump through hoops and offer “dolphin kisses” at this Australian marine park.
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MoD Infecting Marmosets With Deadly Diseases: PETA Founder Endures Public ‘Torture’ in Protest
In a striking demonstration against animal experiments carried out by the UK government, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk was strapped to a “torture table” and “gassed” by a protester dressed as an animal experimenter.
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11 Things We Learned From ‘Should We Close Our Zoos?’ on BBC’s ‘Horizon’
Speaking to experts from around the world, the programme addressed issues such as the welfare of captive animals, the shocking “culling” of healthy animals and the “conservation con” that many zoos use to justify their existence.
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7 Shocking Photos That Show What Will Happen to up to 400,000 Seals This Month
Canada’s horrific annual seal slaughter has just started again, and thousands of young seals will be shot or bludgeoned to death for their skins.
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Inky’s Great Escape Shows Us Why Octopuses Don’t Belong in Aquariums
Octopuses are highly intelligent animals and don’t belong in aquarium tanks.
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5 Horses Died at This Year’s Grand National Festival. Here’s How Social Media Reacted
This year’s Grand National horse racing event has claimed four horses’ lives before the biggest race has even begun.
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Government U-Turn on Outrageous Plans to Scrap Official Animal Welfare Codes
After hearing from PETA and other animal protection groups, Defra has backtracked and told us it will not be allowing the poultry industry to set its own rules about how chickens should be treated.