US retailers adopting cage-free eggs — laid by non-battery hens — sooner rather than later could gain a profit advantage over competitors.

A US cattle industry spokesman said nearly all meat bound for American dinner tables were treated humanely, despite a secret video showing workers at a slaughterhouse abusing sick or crippled animals.

Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is under fire from an animal welfare group for buying eggs from a company the Humane Society of the US says mistreats chickens.

Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills-McCartney will travel to the ice floes off the Canadian Maritimes this week to observe seal pups before the country’s annual hunt opens, the Humane Society of the US said yesterday.

A LUCKY dog named Dosha may have as many lives as a cat. She was hit