ONE RIGHTS: Granting rights to animals doesn’t undermine human rights
MARC BEKOFF: Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often…
You’re not an ‘AI Vegan’? No wonder actual vegans get frustrated
ED WINTERS: The Guardian has an article with the headline ‘Meet the AI Vegans’. It seems there are those who claim that avoiding using AI is somehow…
SPACE ODDITY: We are still sending animals into space with no welfare protections
ANNA MARIE BRENNAN: Animals have played a pivotal role in space exploration since the 1950s. The former Soviet Union’s launch of the stray dog Laika…
Animal Farm at 80: Why the animals really matter in Orwell’s parable about Communism
CHARLOTTE SLEIGH: George Orwell’s Animal Farm turns 80 on August 17 2025. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that…
Systemic Veganism: Veganism as a super-phenomenon
DIOGENIS: Veganism is an interesting phenomenon, In that it is an almost exclusively urban and Middle-class+ (This refers to those in the middle…
‘Checkpoint Zoo’: New documentary retraces the evacuation of zoo animals from the Russia-Ukraine War.
NICOLAS RAPOLD: “Checkpoint Zoo” spotlights a (mostly) four-legged group that has also been affected by the Russia-Ukraine war: animals at Feldman…
Noël Sweeney: Barrister blends law and poetry in a call for animal justice
MILAN PERERA: Noël Sweeney, a barrister, poet and lifelong advocate for animal rights poses a question with moral weight: is our treatment of…
From Margins to Mercy: Why marginalized communities are uniquely positioned to embrace veganism
NANCY ARENAS: Veganism isn’t just about food. It’s about refusing to participate in systems of exploitation — systems that, when we look closely,…
Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
STEVE COOKE: An important reason why progress towards justice for nonhuman animals has been slow concerns how animals are constructed in our…
The ‘Franken Salmon’ is dead in the water, but other GM animals thrive
MARTHA ROSENBERG: AquaBounty Technologies, the company that produced the genetic modified (GM) AquAdvantage salmon “Frankenfish,” has shut down,…