Animals

Monday blues work hard—but cute animal photos work harder. We’ve compiled some of our favorite photos of animals living their best lives!

This groundbreaking technology is a promising step toward a kinder future.

In the fantastic worlds of Studio Ghibli’s master storyteller Hayao Miyazaki, pigs are parents, gods, and—yep—fighter pilots.

It’s a well-known fact that billions of cows, pigs, and chickens suffer in our food system. But the reach of intensive animal agriculture stretches far beyond the walls of factory farms.

On World Egg Day, the chicken should come first.

A hen’s closest wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, will produce 10-15 eggs in a year. A commercial egg-laying hen on a factory farm can produce around 300.

Every day, 3.8 million pigs are killed around the world. Pickles is one of the lucky few spared from this fate.

Cicadas provide a window into our biases toward certain insects: Do insects raised for food need legal protections?

Horse racing is on the decline.

The growing emergence of diseases from animals suggests that we need to rethink our reliance on animals as a food source.