Three big fur fashion announcements build on one long-ago campaign discovery NEW YORK, N.Y.––“What would it take to rid fashion of animal fur?” mused longtime sustainable fashion consultant Lucianne Tonti for the fashion magazine Vogue on December 11, 2025. “In the space of a couple of weeks in early December 2025,” Tonti recounted, “animal rights […]
San Antonio & Brussels reign in horse-drawn carriages
But New York City carriage debate still plods in circles through the same old horseshit SAN ANTONIO, Texas––San Antonio, Texas appears poised to follow Brussels, Belgium as the latest cities to see the end of horse-drawn carriages on city streets, following Montreal (2019), Chicago (2020), and Philadelphia (2022.) The five-member San Antonio city council transportation […]
Lab beagle breeder Envigo cops $35 million plea. Shareholder suits ahead.
Envigo is also permanently enjoined from further f–––ing the dogs CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia––Envigo RMS, formerly one of the leading U.S. suppliers of dogs to laboratories, on June 3, 2024 agreed in U.S. Federal Court for the Western District of Virginia to a plea bargain settlement of alleged Animal Welfare Act and Clean Water Act violations, requiring […]
The devil went down to Georgia, looking to breed macaques for labs
Hong Kong macaque-to-human virus case exemplifies worst fears in Bainbridge, Georgia BAINBRIDGE, Georgia; HONG KONG, China––The Yan Chai Hospital in Hong Kong, China, is 8,550 miles and 12 hours on the global clock from Bainbridge, Georgia, but the fate of a 37-year-old patient who is in critical condition there might be of urgent concern to […]
Covino SeaQuest Littleton follows duck-billed dinosaurs to extinction
Shopping mall aquarium survived just six years DENVER, Colorado––The site of the Mile High City was last an enduringly successful habitat for marine species circa 100 million years ago, when the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains hosted duck-billed dinosaurs as part of the Western Interior Seaway. That reality, however, has scarcely discouraged developers from […]
“Bloody hell!” finds PETA probe of dog & cat transfusion supplier
Despite decades of exposés, only California closely regulates the veterinary blood business VALLONIA, Indiana––A seven-month People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals undercover investigation of the Veterinarians’ Blood Bank in Vallonia, Indiana, has again put the largely unregulated veterinary blood industry under a microscope. The Veterinarians’ Blood Bank exposé comes seven years after a similar […]
Monkey business invades Brazoria, Texas, & Bainbridge, Georgia
Charles River Laboratory execs, current & former, are involved BRAZORIA, Texas; BAINBRIDGE, Georgia––What’s worse than one gigantic new monkey colony built to supply laboratories? Two gigantic new monkey colonies built to supply laboratories, headed by former executives of Charles River Laboratories and Inotiv, two of most notorious alleged corporate scofflaws in the laboratory animal supply […]
Jail break for Colombian owl monkeys; hippos remain on the lam
Arbitrarily assigned conservation status protects owl monkeys, but designates hippos Public Enemy Numero Uno. CALI, Colombia––What a difference 15 million years makes! The most distant ancestors of Colombian owl monkeys, a subspecies of night monkey, are believed to have floated across the then much narrower South Atlantic ocean circa 30 million years ago on logs […]
What Charles River Laboratories has in common with Al Capone
Monkey business, secret labs, & the French Canadian connection MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada––The liquid monkey business flowing across the 3,987-mile U.S./Canadian border these days is literally about liquid monkey parts: blood, guts, spinal fluid, and other internal organs pureed in a blender for use in biomedical research. A century ago, from the introduction of Prohibition with […]
Supreme Court split verdict on California pig law sets up another round
California “wins” right to enforce ban on sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation stalls, but Justice Kavanaugh tells agribusiness how they might reverse the decision WASHINGTON D.C.––Rendering a decision split more ways than a pork belly by a supermarket butcher, with little consideration of pig suffering but a great deal of attention to […]