Most state anti-cruelty laws also exempt farmed animals or allow standard practices that are patently cruel. No federal law in the United States explicitly regulates the treatment of animals on farms, ...

The owner of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., has been forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks due to positive bird flu tests.

Two farms have been suspended from New Zealand Merino’s ZQ quality standard supply programme after undercover videos appeared ...

President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards ...

PETA supporters in New York City on Thursday protested at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals headquarters for promoting animal welfare certification labels that PETA claims ...

A Woodstock state representative is proposing changes to Georgia’s pet euthanization and impound policies in response to the euthanizations of two animals popular on the internet who were seized and ...

Red 3—also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or E127—has been widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals since its FDA approval in 1969. You've likely encountered Red 3 before. It's a common ...

Dressed in “bloody” snake suits to welcome the Lunar New Year, members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals held a demonstration in Binondo, Manila yesterday to protest the use of snakeskin ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a two-acre plot in a Southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week.

Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), dressed in snake costumes, urge the public not to buy or support any products made from ...

People in Southern California are risking their own safety to rescue animals, both big and small, from the wildfires that have killed 27 people and displaced even more after thousands of structures ...

The cold weather earlier this week, Millman-Rinaldi said, likely stopped Charlie’s heart and took his breath — and life — away. As tragic as the dog's end was, the rescuer speculated it likely was ...