ANIMAL LIVES MATTER TOO: What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King
MERRITT CLIFTON: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible…
‘O Caledonia’: A noir novel for the Anthropocene
CHELSEA JACK FITZGERALD: Elspeth Barker’s newly reprinted 1991 noir novel O Caledonia. Barker’s first and only novel set in postwar Scotland —…
‘TRANSFARMATION’: Invitation to free online premiere of film on what happens when farmers have a change of heart
WE ANIMALS MEDIA: In the new short film, “Transfarmation”, a woman from Switzerland helps transform more than 100 animal farms into vegan farms and…
IN CONTEMPT: British government rejects call to ban wildlife-killing snares in England, against public’s wishes
TRACY KEELING: Parliamentarians debated whether to ban wildlife-killing snares on 9 January. As MPs pointed out during the session, there’s…
‘Enough to Crush One’s Heart’: 50 alarming animal cruelty statistics
ALEXANDER LAYBOURNE: Animal cruelty statistics make for harrowing reading. If you have a sensitive disposition, then discretion is advised. While…
Gregory F. Tague: An evolutionary case for veganism
GREGORY F. TAGUE: Genetically, morphologically, and behaviorally humans are similar to great apes since we are apes. Michael Wilson (2021) believes…
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS: If animals are persons, should they bear criminal responsibility?
ED SIMON: If you were an animal in need of legal representation in early 16th-century Burgundy – a horse that had trampled its owner, a sow that had…
NONE BUT THE SLAVE: Thailand’s only surviving gorilla doomed to life behind bars in horror zoo
ALICE PEACOCK: Thailand’s only surviving gorilla Bua Noi dubbed the 'world’s loneliest gorilla ' is doomed to life in captivity as activists’…
HUMANIMAL RIGHTS: New open-access book provides an in-depth discussion of animal rights as new human rights
HARVARD UNIVERSITY: The new year brings us a new open access book by Visiting Scholar Dr. Saskia Stucki, which she wrote during her time with the…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: What humans owe animals
MARTHA NUSSBAUM: Animals are in trouble all over the world. Our world is dominated by humans everywhere: on land, in the seas, and in the air. No…