John Kerry made a last ditch stand to gain more votes in his presidential campaign by donning camo gear and heading out to shoot small animals. This, his campaign managers, believed, would make him seem like more of a leader.
Church inaction over animal welfare compounds animal cruelty, said Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian at Oxford University and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Our society places much stock in being intelligent and having smart children, which is why schools administer so many different kinds of tests. But over the last decade, educators and parents have seriously challenged such approaches, standardizing tests, and the premise upon which they are based.
The animals and nature no longer play a part in our modern belief systems. Beyond the occasional blessing of the animals, like on St. Francis Day, our mainstream modern religions ignore them almost entirely.
A scene at the end of the movie Contagion portrays the nightmare scenario for a pandemic flu. And it’s basically just waiting to happen so say doctors and scientists.
While it doesn’t bother ethics experts much when genes are mixed from two non-human animals, it’s much more alarming when they create human-other chimeras.
Is it OK to inject human cells into other animals like laboratory mice and create hybrids?
A U.K. study shows that one child in five has never set foot in the countryside, and a third of all children have either had no contact or just the slightest contact with the world of nature.
Some simple research you can do at home tells the real story of our attitudes toward animals. They’re not quite what we tell ourselves and each other
A college student in Mexico gets real-life lessons in anthropology — and prejudice — when she learns that white dogs are welcome in well-to-do homes, but brown dogs are not. Animals aren’t just animals; they’re cultural symbols, too
Psychologists say you can learn a lot about human nature by studying how people behave toward other animals. So a group of scientists put a fake turtle and a fake snake on the road and watched to see how drivers reacted.