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Ever wonder how the down feathers used in down-filled comforters, jackets, and vests got from the birds to your back? There's nothing warm and fuzzy about it. Undercover video footage obtained by PETA reveals that down production is a nightmare for birds.

The video footage shows workers picking up and restraining …

This is part of an occasional series exploring questions of consistency and other moral dilemmas facing vegans and animal rights advocates.

My home state of Pennsylvania holds the nation's oldest and largest indoor agricultural exhibition, the Pennsylvania Farm Show, every year in January. The show takes place at the Farm Show Complex, which includes 24 acres of indoor …

If you've been considering going back to school, you might be pleasantly surprised by the variety of offerings in current course catalogs, including a quickly growing number of animal studies programs.

The Animals and Society Institute now lists more than 100 university courses across the country that fall under the rubric of animal …

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Last year, PETA and other animal advocates successfully defeated "ag gag" bills in Florida, New York, Minnesota, and Iowa. Now, another "ag gag" bill that would make it illegal to shoot video on a factory farm has just passed in the House of Representatives in Utah. And once again, we're fighting back against this unconstitutional …

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The media have made a big fuss over McDonald's January announcement that it would stop using a substance known as "pink slime"—technically ammoniated beef trimmings (uh, yum?)—in the restaurant chain's hamburger patties after its use of the substance was exposed by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and others.

While putting an end to the "Quarter …

"Don't climb the ice dunes," warned park rangers, signs, and local residents. Yet all seemed serene as I scanned the silent, frost-bitten landscape of Presque Isle State Park, a 7-mile spit of land arching into Lake Erie from Pennsylvania's far northwest corner.

Locals share tales of daredevils who've ascended ice dunes only to crash through …

Excuse me for stating the obvious, but racists are dumb. That's not just my opinion. It's the conclusion of a provocative new study published in the journal Psychological Science. Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, and his colleagues found that children with low intelligence are more likely to grow up to be racist …