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Animals are much loved and hated at the same time in Korea - one in every four Koreans lives with companion animals, while over two million dogs are slaughtered every year for dog meat and animals are stipulated as objects under the current legal system.

Actors Theatre of Little Rock and Henderson State University are collaboratively staging "As You Like It," director Mark A. Burbanks adaptation of William Shakespeares comedy, today-Sunday in the 150-seat Studio Theatre in Arkansas Hall at HSU in Arkadelphia.

Sunlight filtered into the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Saturday as students gathered in front of their murals, adding the finishing touches.

What would it mean to treat other living creatures fairly?

While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases.

These New Yorkers were in categories of their own.

LAW alumnus and animal rights activist Steven Wise discusses a Supreme Court challenge to California’s ban on inhumane confinement of pigs and hens.

A parliamentary committee in New South Wales has recommended "rapidly phasing out" two experiments that are performed on mice for medical research.

Breeding animals for medical research is time-consuming and expensive but new technology might allow New South Wales to take a global lead in ending the use of testing on animals in labs.

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