Stunningly ‘Pignorant’: Documentary exposes the horrific use of gas chambers in animal holocaust
CLAIRE COLLEY: New undercover footage showing British pigs being gassed prior to slaughter has led to renewed calls to investigate the use of CO2.…
R.I.P. Flaco: Like many a hero, the caged zoo owl made his choice… Liberty!
CARL SAFINA: Flaco the owl is gone, but his life had all the elements of a classic hero’s story, not soon forgotten. Born in captivity, he lived a…
‘Creaturely Racism’ in the Media: Issues and solutions for speciesism in the Anthropocene
FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION: Decades of political struggles and social pressure from enlightened publics have forced the media to heed its ethical…
‘Mother Cow, Mother India’: The sacred and the profane exploitation of cows in India
AMBIKA AIYADURAI: In India, it is not rare to see the veneration of the cow on one street corner, and the same animals feeding on trash at the next.…
OMNIVORE DILEMMA: Moralistic stereotyping of vegans
BEN DE GROEVE: Attitudes toward vegans can be markedly ambivalent. On the one hand, vegans may evoke admiration among omnivores for their moral…
PRIDE IN PREJUDICE: Speciesism in everyday language
STEFAN LEACH: Anthropocentric speciesism manifests in the belief that the welfare of humans is more valuable compared to, for example, dolphins,…
‘Christspiracy’: Documentary set for release in over 600 movie theaters around the world
POLLY FOREMAN: Christspiracy will be screened in over 600 movie theaters around the world on March 20th and March 24th in all of the US, UK,…
R.I.P. Steven Wise: Legal force for animal rights, dies at 73
HARRISON SMITH: Steven M. Wise, a legal warrior for animal rights who argued that chimpanzees, elephants, whales and other highly intelligent…
MILESTONE: Vegans are protected by human rights, Danish court rules
VEGETARISK FORENING: On February 8th 2024, a lower court in Denmark, the court in the city of Hjorring granted the vegan movement in Denmark a…
‘Max Pain’: Lawsuit secures horrific videos and photos of NIH animal tests at bioagent lab
AMANDA NIEVES: A successful White Coat Waste (WCW) Project Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit has pried free never-before-seen photos and…