Image source This Halloween, please remember that your pets have feelings too. No matter how social they are or how excited they are initially to participate in whatever you're doing, it's not fair to

TripAdvisor to stop selling tickets to many animal attractions  TripAdvisor announced this week that by early 2017, it will stop selling tickets to hundreds of attractions that threaten the health or wellbeing

Kangaroo fur slippers – the latest fashion craze Add another animal to the list of those trapped and killed for their fur because fashion demands it.   fashionistas are hungry for pelts used

What is a Personal Choice? One of the most common things people say in response to arguments for veganism goes something like this, “I have no problem with people being vegan. I think that’s great if it

Lawyer Steven Wise was first introduced to the ideas of animal rights and animal personhood by reading philosophy books. He soon realized, however, that philosophers and lawyers mean different things when

Labor Day has a bloody history, and I’m not just referring to the slaughtered animals grilled and served up at barbecues at Labor Day picnics. The holiday was a hard-won concession labor unions got out

Lists have a long history in literature, dating back to Sumerian times with a king’s instructions to his son on how to live a good life, with advice like, “the eyes of the slanderer always move around

Why do we respect other people? Because we like them or have relationships with them? Because they are capable of reciprocating? Because they belong to the same social group, or ethnic group? Or is it

Things and Persons You’ve probably heard the expression, “Animals are people, too.” It’s a cute expression meant to show respect for animals, but actually being a person has a great deal of significance

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You can make money from curating quality content on Steemit, but it has nothing to do with voting or commenting. I’ve been on Steemit for a little more than a week now. I’ve tried writing what I thought

Does nature know best? Animals in the wild suffer all the time from accidents, injuries, diseases, hunger, and thirst in situations in which we could help them. Yet many people believe that we shouldn’t

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus have announced that by 2018 they will no longer feature elephants in their shows. This comes after many lawsuits, fines, and cities that have banned circuses

A modern-day chimera is “a hybrid organism with organs or tissues from multiple species… Scientists have mixed-and-matched human and animal cells for years, hoping to one day grow replacement human organs

Recently @powercouple wrote a blog post on “why we think Steemit will take over Facebook, Twitter and other social networks within this year! ” which I suggest reading. Among other things, they mentioned

Remember the cow in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns

From the graphic below, you can see that there are many more domesticated animals than humans on the planet. About 70 billion of them are killed for food every year around the world. But that's nothing

Chickens like to spend time in the sunshine, spread their wings, dust bathe, spend time with their families and find safe places to hide their eggs.