Many of McDonald’s biggest competitors, including Burger King and Subway, have pledged to ban some of the cruelest practices inflicted on animals. But McDonald’s has refused to do the same.

The putter of a tiny outboard motor echoes out over an eerie stillness.

Many people will tell you that there’s nothing cuter than a baby animal.

Our thoughts are with North Carolina residents today as they brace for the storm, and especially with those who had to leave their homes in the coastal flood region to an uncertain fate.

Peer-Reviewed Scientific Article Concludes that Chickens Are Behaviorally, Cognitively and Emotionally Complex Individuals

In early March, we received a call about a couple of chickens roaming around a rest stop. Knowing how dangerous it is for chickens to be loose and unprotected, we immediately set out to see if we could locate them. After a long and thorough search of the area where they were spotted, we still hadn’t located the birds. We were close to giving up, fearing the worst, when we noticed a small, white ball of fluff in a dense patch of trees and brush.

Bessie, Satchmo, and Bird spent the first four months of their lives in an aquarium on a third-floor apartment balcony in Los Angeles County.

It was the Thursday before Memorial Day, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, when we got the call: 60 “broiler” chickens had fallen off a transport truck headed for a Brooklyn live market.

Officers who stopped a truck in Glendale, CA, in early October thought they had a routine traffic violation on their hands.

We almost didn’t meet Jane. Last week, she was on her way to slaughter, along with dozens of other “broiler” chickens.