President Donald Trump could “continue his legacy” of fighting animal abuse by imposing tariffs on high-cruelty Chinese animal products, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week.
The results of a survey published by two animal rights organizations this week found that eating dogs is highly unpopular in the city of Yulin, China – home to a gory spectacle in which dog traders mark the summer solstice by butchering thousands of dogs in the streets and eating their meat with lychees.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights groups have found what some might consider an unlikely ally in President Donald Trump and his administration.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has reintroduced Violet’s Law, a bill named after a dog saved from a taxpayer-funded experimentation lab by White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and requires all federal labs to allow animals to be retired and adopted out when testing ends.
The truth is that there has long been a quiet undercurrent of support for the cause of animal rights among conservatives
Animal rights group PETA has once again thanked the Trump administration for its push to end government-funded animal testing after National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya announced the closure of the agency’s last beagle testing facility.
Animal rights nonprofit group PETA is praising the Trump administration for its work to end animal testing within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thanking them for “helping spare tens of thousands of animals each year.”
Animal advocacy group PETA has sent a letter to NCAA Southeastern Conference (SEC) Commissioner Greg Sankey, urging him to prevent University of Texas (UT) at Austin from bringing its live longhorn steer mascot, Bevo, to Friday’s Cotton Bowl Classic game against Ohio State University.
Climate and environmental activists warn a possible second presidential term for former President Donald Trump poses an “extreme” threat to animals and must be fought tooth and nail.
This year’s Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival – a harrowing display in Guangxi, China, in which vendors slaughter dogs openly for consumption on the street – appeared to attract significantly less interest that prior iterations, animal rights organizations told Breitbart News this week, though not due to any action to deter the event by Chinese authorities.
Protesters interrupted Harvard University interim president Alan Garber Friday during “Alumni Day” proceedings in Harvard Yard, with one person storming the stage and dumping green glitter all over Garber as he delivered a speech.
Houthi terrorist attacks are currently blocking a ship bound for Israel carrying 14,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle from completing its voyage, leaving the crew uncertain where its live cargo sourced from Australia will be taken.
Legal rights for all inhabitants of the animal kingdom have been formally recognised in the Southern California city of Ojai after a council vote Tuesday night.
The end of China’s coronavirus lockdowns, curious Western tourists, and “mass police corruption” have made this year’s Yulin Dog Meat and Lychee Festival, a ten-day outdoor animal slaughter event, one of the biggest ever, animal rights activists – including some currently rescuing dogs in the city, told Breitbart News.
Footage has emerged of Epsom Derby officials tackling an animal rights activist, who is accused of “threatening the safety” of the horses.
Three women who allegedly stole sheep from an estate owned by King Charles III have claimed they were motivated by Animal Rights.
The death of Spanish bullfighting has been declared many times, but the number of bullfights is at its highest level in seven years.
The once-prestigious Lancet medical journal urges a “revolutionary shift of perspective” away from human-centered health care in favor of “ecological equity” attributing equal value to all life.
A court in Finland began hearing a case of alleged illegal Halal slaughter of up to 2,500 sheep, claiming they were no-stun kills.
Colombian Senator Alirio Barrera arrived on horseback to Congress on Monday following a new ruling passed by the president of the Senate the week prior that declared the nation’s legislative building as “pet-friendly.”
The president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that it was “high time” medical personality Anthony Fauci resigned from his government positions and lamented that Fauci had presided over “transgender experiments on animals which make no sense at all.”
Hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut managed to take an animal rights protester down while setting a new hot dog eating record on Monday.
A representative of Plush Bear’s Shelter, an animal rights group operating within China, told Breitbart News this weekend that Chinese police have been stationed to prevent onlookers from photographing images of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival this year.
The Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in southern China began this week, a Summer Solstice celebration that typically involved the brutal butchering and consumption of what animal rights activists say is thousands of dogs, many of them suspected stolen from homes where they lived as pets.
Rocker Joan Jett spoke during SeaWorld’s annual shareholders meeting to accuse the attraction of “sexually abusing” animals during breeding.
Actor James Cromwell glued his 82-year-old hand to a Starbucks counter to protest the price of plant-based milk.
Two Belgian Muslim organisations have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge a ban on ritual slaughter.
Greece’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, has declared that the slaughter of animals in religious rituals, such as halal, is illegal without first stunning or sedating the animal.
Local government officials in Australia had dogs due to be rescued from a council pound shot dead, to stop shelter workers from going to pick them up during Covid.
Police arrested four men in Nantes after they allegedly slaughtered a pair of sheep in the middle of a street during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) urged the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Thursday to forcefully advocate for the shutdown of live animal meat markets in the interest of public health, particularly in light of ongoing concerns that they may have played a role in the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Swedish farmers working with animals say they have been forced to hire security companies to watch over their farms after threats from animal rights extremists.
The UK will look to ban the boiling of lobsters alive, however, the government has refrained from imposing similar restrictions on Halal.
Female members of the Swedish animal rights group Djurfront sold sexual services online to finance the court fines of the group’s male leader, who had been sent to prison.
A prominent animal rights activist in central Santa Clara, Cuba, accused the Communist Party this week of poisoning her pet dogs, and repeatedly killing stray dogs prior to visits by Cuba’s second-in-command, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
China’s state-run Global Times published multiple condemnations this week of a largely favorable article in Time magazine highlighting the growing meat substitute industry in the country, accusing those urging vegan diets in China of having a “sense of superiority” over Han Chinese people.
As much of Los Angeles remains under stay-at-home orders, Hollywood celebrity and fashion mogul Kylie Jenner reportedly went on a private shopping spree in Beverly Hills on Saturday, only to be confronted by a group of animal rights protestors who objected to the star’s affinity for fur and animal skin.
Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service (MI5), will have a unit dedicated to investigating far-leftists and anarchists plotting terror attacks in the United Kingdom.
The Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, a tradition in the southern Chinese city, is set to begin on Summer Solstice, or Sunday, despite years of global animal rights activism urging China to end it.
An animal rescue group flew 1,000 laying hens from an egg farm in Iowa to its sanctuary in California to save them from a depopulation plan.
