Back in April of 2023, a 9-year-old girl in Shasta County, California was
raising a 4-H goat named Cedar when she realized that she couldn't go
through with giving up her friend to be sold and slaughtered, as the program
demands. The fair board, which runs the 4-H progra...
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After years of progress in reducing euthanasia rates in this country,
healthy, adoptable pets are once again being killed in our nation’s
shelters at record levels, simply because they’re homeless--it's especially
bad for dogs. So why is this happening? Are more pets bei...
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Back in February a Wyoming man named Cody Roberts deliberately ran over a
wolf in his snowmobile, traumatically injuring the animal. Instead of
immediately putting the wolf out of its misery, he taped its mouth shut and
posed for pictures with it. He then dragged the poo...
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They're a symbol of freedom and their protection is mandated by federal
law--but America's wild horses are being cruelly mismanaged by the very
government agency charged with making sure they are safe. On this edition of
Voices For The Animals, Michele Coppola talks with...
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This month we'll revisit some of the most urgent animal welfare issues
featured on VFTA recently. We'll talk about what's happening with:
the federal EATS Act, which threatens to undo even the small gains made to
improve conditions for food animals in the US
the conti...
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Back in February a Wyoming man named Cody Roberts deliberately ran over a
wolf in his snowmobile, traumatically injuring the animal. Instead of
immediately putting the wolf out of its misery, he taped its mouth shut and
posed for pictures with it. He then dragged the poo...
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If you've seen My Octopus Teacher or read the book Remarkably Bright
Creatures, you know that octopuses are incredible animals. Unfortunately,
people find them tasty as well, which is why a company in Spain wants to farm
them--basically the equivalent of an octopus facto...
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99% of the meat and dairy products we eat in this country come from
industrialized factory farms. By and large, these are terrible places for
animals, and voters in some states have passed laws to make those farms a
little more humane. Unfortunately, some in Congress are...
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