Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature
MARC BEKOFF: Injuries and death occur among wild animals, and that's part of what it is to be one of these amazing beings. Adélie penguins leaping…
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
CHRISTOPHER LANCETTE: Christopher Preston’s 'Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals' skyrockets off the…
TO THE RESCUE: The vegan movement has failed; it’s time to build an animal rights movement around ‘rescue’
WAYNE HSIUNG: This week, the MIT Media Lab published a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of the word “vegan” on a person’s willingness…
WHAT IF: New billboard ad campaign of a woman being milked puts a spotlight on ‘speciesism’
SPECIESISM.WTF: A new billboard campaign that’s urging the UK public to confront their speciesism is currently on display in London... The campaign…
‘Human Controlled Evolution’: Lost in the vast, dark world of gene‑editing of farmed animals
KAREN DAVIS: Genetics researchers are developing chickens with “consumer characteristics” and factory-farm “resilience"... This is the ultimate,…
‘FREE RIDING’: The right response to the ‘causal inefficacy’ objection against ethical veganism
J. BARRETT & S. RASKOFF: The creation of animal products on factory farms causes animals a tremendous amount of pain and suffering. Learning…
COP-OUT MURDERS: When police kill dogs, who pays the price?
GINO FANELLI: On the morning of June 10, 2018, Marianne Anniszkiewicz called Rochester Animal Services and police to report that a pit bull was…
THE KITCHEN’S ‘PETRI’ DISH: Food from factory farming is the world’s most dangerous bioweapon
WAYNE HSIUNG: Pathogens such as H5N1, which kills 56% of infected human beings, are brewing in factory farms — and the industry knows this and yet…
The Walrus & The Whirlwind: In Search of the Transformative Turning Point in the Animal Freedom Movement
AAM: We’re sure about our vision to liberate animals, yet unsure how or when we’ll get there. Meanwhile, we continue to work in our own silos but…
THE TORTURE ‘R U.S. BILL: Legislation introduced to ban NIH from funding animal experiments in other countries
HENRY RODGERS: A bipartisan bill was introduced that would ban the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding experiments involving animals in…