According to the National Football League (NFL), this year's Super Bowl LX, the final game of the NFL season that determines the world champions of American football, was viewed in the US by nearly 125 million people. The halftime show generated over four billion global...
Since December 2023, WBI has published six articles discussing the use of animals in biomedical research and testing. These articles comment on a variety of government, industry, and academic initiatives aimed at reducing animal use in laboratories by transitioning to NAMs (Non-Animal Methods or New...
In the early years of this century, I met Jason Matheny, an early advocate for cultured meat and the founder of the cultured meat company, New Harvest, in 2004. Matheny asserted that meat cultivated from the cells of cattle, pigs, chickens, and other farmed animals...
In 2002, Google launched an ambitious project to scan a large portion of the world's books and create a digital library accessible to everyone. However, this library has not yet materialized due to legal challenges from authors and publishers. Although the public cannot currently access...
If the animal protection movement were to anoint an official cartoonist, it would most likely have selected Gary Larson and his iconic "The Far Side" cartoon series. From early in the 1980s, it was virtually impossible to attend an animal protection conference without seeing a...
These two books deal with the same topic, animal research and testing, in quite different ways. Both describe very personal explorations of the topic, grounded in the two authors' interactions with laboratory animals. Melanie Kaplan, author of Lab Dog and a journalist, adopted a beagle, Hammy,...
Livestock and wildlife live along the Ewaso River in Kenya's northern rangelands, a region frequently affected by prolonged droughts. Livestock are existential for the Samburu people in the region. In the words of Lavias Lekuuk, a Samburu elder: "We are a pastoralist community. Cows are...
The true story, A Street Cat Named Bob, is an international best-seller about twin redemption: that of a homeless tabby street cat and a homeless Englishman who adopt each other and help one another heal, leading to celebrity status for both cat and human. The author,...
A Message of Gratitude: As we enter this season of gratitude, we at WellBeing International want to pause and thank you from the heart. Your compassion and support make it possible for us to care for animals, protect our environment, and nurture communities in need. In...
In the first part of this series, an ancient relationship between humans and beaver, largely exploitative, was noted., Almost gone from Western Europe by the early Middle Ages, beavers were found to be abundant and available in the New World. There, they were exploited for...
