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by Mark Jones Members of Parliament debated the badger cull on Thursday 25 October and voted overwhelmingly, by 147 votes to 28, against it. The vote followed a five-hour backbench debate on a motion put to MPs by Green MP Caroline Lucas in the House of Commons chamber. The motion read: That this

by Karen E. Lange The man with the plastic mesh bag is looking for a sale. Hanging out in the well-worn dirt strip on the edge of one of Managua’s main intersections, he eyes each vehicle, searching for customers—or police. He’s surrounded by other vendors, shirts hung with multiple pairs of cheap

Pesticides, from weed killers and rat poison to insect repellant and cleansers that claim to "kill germs," are among the most heavily animal-tested products in existence. Government regulations sometimes require dozens of different animal-poisoning tests to assess the safety of a single new

Basic and applied biological research is responsible for the greatest proportion of animal use in laboratory experiments, accounting for approximately three-quarters of the estimated 115+ million annual total worldwide. Attempts to model human diseases in other animal species—whether to study the

Only a small proportion of countries collect and publish data concerning their use of animals for testing and research, but it is estimated that more than 115 million animals—including mice, rats, birds, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, farm animals, dogs, cats, and non-human primates—are used and/or

Tests that use animals to assess the safety of chemicals and products such as cosmetics, pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs are still quite common. Although testing requirements differ from country to country and sector to sector, new ingredients that require safety assessment will very likely be

Q: What led you to advocating against animal testing? A:I’ve always been an animal person, but the experience of being a conscientious objector to high school dissection really opened my eyes—both to the plight of animals used in research, testing and education, as well as the need for every person

The Westminster government claims its badger culling policy is ‘science-led policy’ but scientists and experts closely involved in the issue strongly disagree. Randomised Badger Culling Trial Most of the science surrounding the role of badgers in the spread of bovine TB in cattle comes from the

The International Councils on Animal Protection in OECD and Pharmaceutical Programmes (ICAPO and ICAPPP) are umbrella associations through which animal protection organisations, including HSI, interact with global chemical and pharmaceutical regulators who meet under the auspices of the Organisation

It’s not only badgers that are at risk from the UK government’s policy of killing the animals across large areas of countryside, in its misguided attempt to control TB in cattle. Badgers are key members of the ecosystems they inhabit. Indeed they are among the top predators in those systems, and

Speak out against the badger cull The annual culling of badgers began in areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013 with contractors shooting badgers under a four year licence issued by Natural England. An additional licence was issued for an area of Dorset in 2015. In February 2016, the

by Alexandra Rothlisberger This past August, we visited the Mexican municipality of Teocelo to support Mayor Cristian Teczon’s decision to replace animal cruelty spectacles with music, dance and artistic performances. Teocelo, located in the Mexican state of Veracruz, has a little over 15,000

by Alex Rothlisberger Seniso is the epitome of the Mexican roaming dog. His ears are covered in ticks, he looks thin and dehydrated, and he has a gash a few inches wide on his back full of pus. Every day, he wanders the streets of Mezcales with two other male dogs, left to fend for himself. But

More than 1.4 million breeding sows are kept on Canadian farms, the majority of them confined in cages know as gestation crates. A gestation crate is a metal stall measuring approximately 0.7 m (2 ft) by 2m (7 ft)—barely larger than a sow’s body. A breeding sow spends almost her entire life confined

Pigs are extremely smart, social animals capable of feeling fear, pain, and stress. Studies show that they are more intelligent than dogs and even some primates, and scientists have demonstrated that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names

En América Latina, millones de gallinas ponedoras de las granjas industriales viven confinadas de manera permanente en pequeños recintos de alambre llamados jaulas en batería. Las jaulas en batería son tan hacinadas que las gallinas no logran caminar, hacer ejercicio o estirar completamente sus alas

by Mark Jones Sir Roger Moore has given his backing to calls by Humane Society International/UK and Compassion in World Farming for British firm Creek Projects Investments PLC to withdraw its plans to fund a massive foie gras factory farm in China. Sir Roger Moore said: "Foie gras is sold as a

by Sayara Thurston Of the more than 500 dogs HSI/Canada helped rescue from a commercial breeding facility in September 2011, one puppy in particular stole the hearts of both staff and volunteers. Named "Pocket" because she was so tiny she could almost fit into one, she found her forever home after a