The movement to end the dog and cat meat trade is gaining momentum across Asia. Nearly 90% of South Korea’s dog meat farms have now closed ahead of the country’s historic ban taking full effect on February 7th, 2027. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Japan are considering legislation to prohibit the consumption of dog and cat meat […]

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A man from London, England, has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison for leading an international network that paid to have baby monkeys tortured and killed to create videos for online distribution, according to Sky News. Bartosz Poklek administered online groups whose members requested specific acts of torture against monkeys in […]

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Rodeos are sanctioned animal cruelty events that force terrified baby cows, bulls, and horses to suffer from fear, abuse, injuries, and sometimes death — all for human entertainment. Calf-roping, widely considered to be the cruelest event, involves chasing baby cows on horseback, catching them with lassos, yanking and twisting their necks as they’re violently slammed […]

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PETITION TARGETS: Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry and the Indonesian Zoos and Aquariums Association (PKBSI) Behind the holiday photos and animal attractions in Bali, wild animals are paying the price. Investigations by Lady Freethinker, Jakarta Animal Aid Network, and Bali Animal Welfare Association have documented disturbing treatment of captive wildlife across Bali – including animals kept […]

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PETITION TARGETS: U.S. Government Accountability Office Acting Comptroller General Orice W. Brown Wild horses, cruelly rounded up from their rangeland homes, don’t deserve to be brutally killed in a slaughterhouse. Yet horses sold through a federal placement program have reportedly been sent to their deaths, according to Congressman Steve Cohen’s office. While the Bureau of […]

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Hundreds of nonhuman primates and more than one million horseshoe crabs could be spared from drug testing each year under federal efforts that also include the closure of the National Institutes of Health’s last in-house beagle laboratory. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched more than 20 actions across its agencies to […]

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This World Rabies Day, Lady Freethinker is celebrating major progress for dogs and cats in Sulawesi, Indonesia, through PROJECT Sulawesi – an initiative founded and led by Lady Freethinker to tackle rabies and the brutal dog and cat meat trade as interconnected issues. More than 50,000 rabies vaccine doses have already been distributed, while new […]

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Inside Edition just featured our work exposing fake animal rescue videos, showing viewers across the country the truth behind this cruel, deceptive social media content. LFT Founder and President Nina Jackel explains how people deliberately put animals in danger, then pretend to save them on camera for views and profit. The report explains the hidden […]

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More than 46,000 people have joined Lady Freethinker, Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN), Action for Primates, and other advocates in calling on Indonesia to stop exporting endangered long-tailed macaques for biomedical research and testing. To tackle this issue, organizations joined forces to create United For Primates, a coalition dedicated to protecting Indonesia’s long-tailed macaques from […]

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South Korea’s final Bok Nal before the country’s dog meat ban takes full effect has now passed – something that would once have seemed almost impossible. Next year, for the first time, Bok Nal will take place in a South Korea where the dog meat trade has been banned. That is what we fought for […]

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The European Union recently approved legislation to increase the welfare and traceability of millions of dogs and cats across the continent. Dogs and cats throughout the EU will soon share the same basic care standards. Better record requirements will make it easier to see where each animal came from and halt illegal sales. The new […]

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Maybe you caught cruelty on a security camera—or saw an animal being hurt and took a photo. That evidence could help stop the abuse. Federal authorities have opened a new FBI email tip line for serious animal cruelty. A $5,000 reward is available when information leads to a successful prosecution under the Preventing Animal Cruelty […]

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Low-flying helicopters chased herds of innocent wild horses miles away from their homes and into a trap as part of a federal Bureau of Land Management roundup that resulted in 11 deaths between July 10 and 27, 2026. Lady Freethinker’s field observer documented the heartbreaking scene at the Callaghan Complex Horse Management Area in central […]

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PETITION TARGET: Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni, Director General of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation Satyawan Pudyatmoko, and Director of Species and Genetic Conservation Ahmad Munawir Indonesia has resumed plans to export long-tailed macaques for use in research and testing, putting thousands of these intelligent, social animals at risk of capture, confinement, transport, […]

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After a controversial pet store shut down in Kentucky and reopened across state lines in Indiana, ongoing concerns prompted officials in its new town to adopt stronger protections for animals kept and sold in retail pet shops, according to local news. Puppygram, a pet store chain specializing in purebred and designer puppies, came under scrutiny […]

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A man from Cincinnati, Ohio, has been sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for participating in online groups that created and shared videos of baby and adolescent monkeys being sexually abused, tortured, and mutilated, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Nicholas T. Dryden — […]

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Animals used in research labs — including dogs, cats, and monkeys — are forced to endure some of the most horrific cruelties imaginable. They are often condemned to short lives of terror and agony: isolated in cages, crying out in pain, and trembling in fear. Once their bodies and spirits are broken, they are routinely […]

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Compassionate activists from Lady Freethinker, In Defense of Animals, Animal Save Movement, SPCA International, Stray Dog Support, and the IAWPC — a coalition representing over 80 organizations worldwide — came together throughout the month of June at various FIFA World Cup matches to protest the mass killing of dogs in Morocco ahead of the 2030 […]

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Just days after 18-year-old tourist Romanch Mahajan was killed in a horse-drawn carriage crash in New York City’s Central Park — and less than two weeks after a 16-year-old horse named Deniz collapsed and died hauling passengers — the cruel, outdated industry was back in business. Lady Freethinker documented its return to New York, where […]

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Captive wildlife around the world need your help! Please join Lady Freethinker for a week of online action from July 6-10 to encourage ethical tourism and stop photo ops with animals – where terrified tigers, elephants, primates and more are chained and whipped, roughly handled for photo ops, and forced into submission through violence and […]

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