If the plans are approved, the $396 million breeding facility will house up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques, which will be sold to pharmaceutical companies for animal testing.

The fashion group joins the growing list of brands ditching animal fur.

Bear bile farming is not only a cruel endeavor, but a needless one.

Welfare experts from the ASPCA who assisted in the operation said many of the dogs have scarring consistent with organized dog fighting.

The legislation received broad public support and reflects the industry’s increasing move away from forcing animals to perform.

The Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act aims to prohibit the intensive breeding of octopuses and ban imports of octopus products from international farms.

The young female wolf has become well-known for her restless roaming, after she traveled from Arizona into New Mexico.

Authorities clarified that the bear was killed after becoming conditioned to human food and repeatedly breaking into houses.

The country’s parliament has approved a controversial new law to round up millions of free-roaming dogs and put them into shelters, with animal lovers and the main opposition party seeking to fight the legislation.

The four decade study of more than 130,000 people also found that swapping one serving of processed meat for nuts, beans, or tofu could lower risk of the disease.

The US-Finnish food company uses precision fermentation to make bio-identical egg protein - with no animals and around 90 percent less environmental impact.

The activist group which obtained footage of the illegal horse slaughter industry warns that the unregulated horse meat could make its way into South Florida’s food supply.

The brand’s latest Beyond Sun Sausage focuses on the flavors of its healthy ingredients like yellow pea, brown rice and faba bean instead of trying to taste ‘meaty’.

The arrest of Captain Paul Watson, who also co-founded Greenpeace, is thought to have been for his previous anti-whaling interventions in the Antarctic region.

This year at least half of the meals provided to athletes as well as spectators are vegetarian or vegan.

A controversial new bill wants to confine millions of the country’s free-roaming dogs, alarming activists who fear the move will result in the widespread killing of the animals.

Dutch supermarkets are leading the way with plant-based products already making up 40 percent of all proteins sold.

Nearly six years after being caught illegally possessing 81 pangolins in Malaysia, a former police officer has received one of the longest prison sentences for a crime involving the world's most trafficked animal.

“I never expected to be so affected by the suffering of the cats”, said the farmer, who now supports a ban on the cat meat trade.

An investigation found most of the horse shipments from Canada to Japan exceed the legal 28-hour limit on how long horses can go without being given food, water and rest.