To the dismay of food safety and animal advocates, the USDA has approved increased line speeds as part of a one-year trial period to increase profits and production.

The legislation, which would have restricted regulations on businesses that exploit animals, has been halted thanks to strong opposition from advocates, including the Species Unite community.

A new animal welfare bill is making its way through Utah's legislature. If passed, businesses including puppy mills, circuses, and factory farms will be completely unregulated.

After a grueling investigation and lengthy three-year legal battle by Animal Outlook, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has ordered the DA to prosecute the dairy mega-farm.

The footage, documented by Mercy for Animals, reveals the terrible truth of what chickens experience on factory farms.

Campaigners are calling for companies to take urgent action over potentially preventable barn after fires hundreds of thousands of animals perish.

Spanish firm Nueva Pescanova Group prepares to open a farm capable of producing 3,000 tonnes of octopus per year in 2023.

The science that decapods and cephalopods can feel pain is now irrefutable after a new study reviewed hundreds of scientific papers on pain reception among the invertebrate groups.

“Terrible, terrible disaster” strikes British Columbia as heavy rainfall leaves hundreds of farms submerged underwater.

The investigation draws attention to the extreme abuse inherent in the animal experimentation industry.

The United States legal system defines animals as ‘property’, with their legal rights closer to inanimate objects rather than living beings. Now, for the first time, a legal ruling has recognized a community of wild hippopotamus as legal persons.

A new expose by animal investigation group Animal Outlook reveals cruelty and abuse at a Case Farms hatchery.

Animal advocacy group Species Unite is calling for the Kenyan government to reinstate their ban on the slaughter of donkeys.

Investigators filmed the aquatic animals slowly suffocating and being slaughtered while fully conscious.

In a world-first, France will join Germany in the prohibition of culling male chicks following years of protests over ethical concerns.

Congress given a 'prime opportunity' to finally close a legal loophole that has allowed over one million American horses to be trucked across state lines to their deaths.

This is the third swine flu variant to hit the Manitoba province this year.

Government reforms set to prohibit most live animal exports, ban imports of trophy hunting, and outlaw the sale of foie gras.

Thousands of live horses are sent on cramped, long-haul flights from the likes of Canada and France so that they can be slaughtered for human consumption.

Only three ‘barns’ were caught in the fire, revealing just how tightly-packed together the tens of thousands of animals were inside.