Overcoming Vegan ‘Burnout’: Mass gatherings can rekindle shared identity and social action efforts
ANNAYAH M.B. PROSSER: Moralized minority actors can play important roles in social change processes by rejecting majority social norms and modeling…
Why Did You Quit?: Leadership turnover in the animal advocacy movement
VERA FLOCKE: Strong leadership is important for any social movement. Great leaders empower everyone in their organization, create alignment around a…
Uniting for Progress: Overcoming divisions in the vegan community
ROLAND AZAR: Veganism is often embraced as a transformative response to the urgent need to end animal exploitation and promote compassion and…
‘Unanimal’: New documentary explores the relationship between humans and other animals’
GEORG SZALAI: “Imagine that you are a jellyfish,” says the voice of Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini at the start of a trailer for 'Unanimal', a…
LIKE IT OR NOT: Ours is a speciesist world, really!
FRANCOIS JAQUET: It is a common view among animal ethicists that ours is a speciesist world. The fact is that most people relentlessly treat…
DARE TO CARE: Challenging the egocentric worldview and advocating for animal rights
ROLAND AZAR: We are guilty of an egocentric worldview. The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. In the ashes of what remains, our…
ZERO % SOLUTION: Leading voice for ‘pragmatic’ veganism advocacy responds to latest criticism
TOBIAS LEENAERT: For the past twenty year or so, in my work in the vegan/animal rights movement, I’ve been suggesting a pragmatic approach. In…
WARNING: ‘Some vegans were harmed in the watching of this movie.’
ANNE AGUIAR: Inside a dark theater in Midtown Manhattan, Allison McCulloch watched “Kraven the Hunter,” an origin story for the obscure Spider-Man…
Burning Down the World: Anarchy, Veganism, and Total Liberation
IDIOTEQ: Born in 2013, WARZONE DISTRO free zine project, stands at the intersection of nihilist, anti-civilization anarchy, and total liberation,…
Beyond ‘Ethical Veganism’: Veganism as ‘Political Solidarity’
ALASDAIR COCHRANE: Veganism is commonly described as the attempt to avoid, as far as possible, the exploitation and consumption of animals and…