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Sellers and activists clash as California moves toward becoming the first state in the union to ban furs.

The French star of classic cinema faces charges of hate speech and inciting racial hatred following comments she had previously made about islanders on the French-ruled island of Réunion. The charges came after Ms Bardot labelled the natives on Réunion, “aboriginals

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) responded to PETA’s call on social media to end anti-animal language with a video of him enjoying a bacon snack.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for an end to what it calls “speciesism,” or using negative animal remarks.

(AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves.

A campaign has been launched to save the life of a dog that was reportedly found “raped by a human” and dumped with severe injuries on the streets of London.

A group of animal rights activists staged a demonstration Saturday at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park to protest dolphin shows as part of their annual “Empty the Tanks’ campaign against holding marine animals in captivity.

Visitors to the canteen of a major London hospital have been left with no choice but to eat halal food, a decision apparently taken despite the Muslim population of the local area being a small minority.

The animal rights group, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), says dairy cows are raped to produce milk. The organization attempts to equate artificial insemination of farm animals to women being raped and human trafficking sex crimes. “When

Animal rights experts say that rumors of a Chinese government ban on the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, in which thousands of dogs are estimated to be killed, have severely decreased international awareness efforts to save the animals, typically tortured, killed and eaten.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has dismissed reports of a starving African elephant, the only one in the country, in a nation that lost twenty pounds on average in 2016, claiming there is a right-wing conspiracy to create a “media show… to demoralize the people” into no longer supporting socialism.

The Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are just two of the groups expressing outrage over the fact that Michael Bloomberg’s daughter Georgina is dating Carlos Arruza Jr., a trophy hunter.

Animal rights activists are suing religious Jews in Irvine to stop the tradition of kapparot, an annual ritual in some Jewish communities in which chickens are waved in the air, slaughtered and donated to the poor as atonement for sin in preparation for Yom Kippur.

After recently posting a photo of a giraffe she killed on a hunt in South Africa, 12-year-old big game hunter Aryanna Gourdin came under attack on social media.

On his way to Twitter’s offices in London, a Milo fan convinced a group of protesters that Milo was a captive donkey who needed to be freed.

Five animal rights activists stormed the field at Dodger Stadium in the top of the ninth on Sunday to protest Dodger Dogs. A greater number, 41,831, did not.

Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.

A petition calling on the government to ban halal and kosher slaughter of animals is well on the way to receiving the 100,000 signatures required to prompt a debate in Parliament on the issue. Halal and kosher slaughter of animals

OAKLAND — Over a dozen animal rights activists from the Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) animal liberation group rushed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as he spoke onstage at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland on Monday afternoon, before being assaulted by his supporters and taken away by the Secret Service.

The pro-European Union (EU) environmentalist, Stanley Johnson, has admitted that the Leave campaign is “100 per cent right” about the benefits of Brexit when it comes to the welfare of exported farm animals. Mr. Johnson, father of the prominent Brexit campaigner and outgoing

The Turkish government has announced an interest in adopting an eagle-training program currently in use in the Netherlands, which teaches eagles how to capture unmanned drones mid-air, allowing for a rapid elimination of the threat of any rogue flying objects.

Sensing that Illinois might be an opportunity, if not to beat Donald Trump to at least dip into his Illinois delegates, Texas Senator Ted Cruz hastily set up five events in Illinois to convince Republican primary goers to vote for him on March 15.

A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat. After the video went viral on Tuesday, February 2, Chicago Police arrested

John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio and Republican candidate for President of the United States, refused to vote in favor of a bill that would increase dog fighting penalties, while he was serving in the Ohio Senate in 1980, Breitbart News has learned.

California’s Coastal Commission bowed to left-wing animal rights activists with approval of an amendment stripping SeaWorld of the ability to breed killer whales as a condition of building a massive new $100 million habitat expansion for the orcas living there now.

One California man is creating a world of change for dogs in China and Korea that are suffering brutal, torturous deaths in “puppy mills.”

Another day, another heart-rending, animal-related tweet from Ricky Gervais, who has abandoned his once promising career as an irreverent and outspoken comedian in order to capitalise on the internet’s insatiable appetite for stories about cats, puppies and social injustice. RIP

A city ordinance banning the use of horses to pull the traditional carriages around Rome went into effect Thursday, in response to a wave of 100+ degree weather that is said to threaten the horses’s lives.

The Charity Commission has rejected a request made by a Holocaust survivor to investigate a newly elected Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals (RSPCA) board member who compared the mass murder of Jews to farming. Agnes Grunwald-Spier,

Yang Xiaoyun, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher, traveled 1,500 across China to the Yulin Dog Festival, where she bought 100 dogs with $1,000 and saved them from being dismembered alive, cooked, and served with lychees to celebrate the summer solstice.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), formerly one of Britain’s most respected charities, has elected a radical vegan who compared farming to the Holocaust to its governing board. Peta Watson-Smith, who outraged Jewish leaders with

A Kim Kardashian New York City book signing was crashed Tuesday by roughly ten animal rights activists, who confronted the reality TV star about her fondness for fur.

The Tibetan mastiff, a large dog breed once so prized among China’s elite that each sold for between $130,000 and $250,000, have become so unpopular that slaughterhouses will pay $5 for them.

A huntress has been inundated with death threats after comedian Ricky Gervais posted a picture of her posing next to one of her kills. Rebecca Francis, who hunts with a bow and arrow, is one of America’s premiere hunters. She

In a remarkable turn of events, Virginia legislators reportedly have had to step in to protect animals from PETA, which runs a gulag-style animal shelter at its headquarters on the banks of the St. Elizabeth River that euthanized over 80 percent of the animals in its care in 2014.

Fallout from the Blackfish documentary, and continued activist criticism, may be to blame for SeaWorld’s disappointing 2014 earnings report, which still shows a downward decline. Park attendance was down only a small amount–22.4 million in 2014, versus 23.4 million in 2013. Earnings, however, suffered more.