AG-GAG’S SURVEILLANCE STATE: How the animal agriculture industry uses U.S. spy agencies to monitor and punish critics
GLENN GREENWALD: Animal agriculture industry groups defending factory farms engage in campaigns of surveillance, reputation destruction, and other…
THE KILLING FIELDS: Why did the U.S. Department of Agriculture kill 1.2 million wild animals in 2019?
DHARMA NOOR: The mission of U.S. Wildlife Services, an office in the Department of Agriculture (USDA), is “to provide federal leadership and…
WAYNE HSIUNG: He put his freedom on the line to rescue animals, now wants to be Berkeley’s next mayor
FRANCES DINKELSPIEL: In 2016, Wayne Hsiung moved to Berkeley with the explicit intent of using the city as a lever for the liberation of animals.…
Don’t blame cats for destroying wildlife, shaky logic is leading to moral panic
WILLIAM S. LYNN, ET AL: Conservationists and the media often claim that cats are a main contributor to a mass extinction, a catastrophic loss of…
DESPICABLE: Thousands of abandoned baby chicks die in cardboard boxes at Madrid airport
CNN: About 23,000 baby chicks have died after being abandoned in transit at Madrid Barajas airport in Spain. The birds, who were only a few days…
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM: A New Legal and Ethical Approach is Needed to Protect Animals
SARA PATTERSON: Professor Martha C. Nussbaum has built her storied career on championing underdogs. Now, the influential philosopher and humanist is…
MATTHEW SCULLY: The Animal Protection Movement is everything that Social Justice ‘Woke’ activism isn’t
MATTHEW SCULLY: Going back to the 1990s, I have often advocated for reforms in law to assure animal protection, a cause I consider underrated by…
DISGRACEFUL: U.S. government N.I.H. lab refuses to release ‘retired’ chimps to sanctuary as promised
JAMES GORMAN: Montessa, a 46-year-old chimpanzee, has been through a lot. The first record of her life is the note that she was purchased from an…
Animal rights activists storm Saks store in Toronto to protest sale of fur coats
LAUREN O'NEIL: An anti-fur protest inside a swish downtown Toronto department store went sideways this weekend — quite literally — when a store…
VICTORY: Israel becomes first country to ban ‘immoral’ animal fur trade
BBC NEWS: Israel says it intends to ban the buying and selling of animal furs, apart from in specially approved cases, making it the first country…