‘A Living Hell’: Scientists call for the world’s first octopus farm to be shut down
COLIN FERNANDEZ: Plans for the world's first commercial octopus farm should be scrapped on grounds of cruelty, according to campaigners. Details of…
HIGH ON LIFE: Research shows great apes alter their mental states by spinning rapidly
MARC BEKOFF: A recent open-access research paper published in the journal Primates by... Adriano Lameira and Marcus Perlman analyzed 40 YouTube…
CASE STUDY: Learning from the landmark SHAC animal rights campaign
TRENT DAVIDSON: While social movements are often grounded in activism, no two campaigns are alike. Furthermore, most campaigns go through a number…
TO THE RESCUE: The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: After nearly six hours of deliberation, two animal rights activists facing misdemeanor theft charges were acquitted by a…
Thailand’s ‘Mall Gorilla’: No freedom on the horizon for innocent prisoner Bua Noi
THANAPORN PROMYAMYAI: Seven storeys above a shopfloor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, Thailand's "shopping mall gorilla" sits alone in a…
INVESTIGATION: ‘Chicken roping’; another way of cruelty
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Anyone who watches can see the unquestionable bullying and maximized disregard inflicted onto the unwilling participants of…
MARX V. DARWIN: Vegan revolution or vegan evolution?
JORDI CASAMITJANA: It was the German philosopher Karl Marx who in the 19th century theorised about how people would inevitably revolt when facing…
THE FINISH LINE: How U.S. racehorses end up on dinner plates
RACHEL FOBAR: At a feedlot in Alberta, Canada, up to 10,000 horses await their death. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -30 degrees…
‘Under Their Skin’: A new report series on the cruel injustices of animal leather production
COLLECTIVE FASHION JUSTICE: While leather has been used in fashion for millennia, its production today is an ethical and environmental crisis.…
Why Does Creation Groan?: Scripture and science suggest that animal suffering fits into a divine artistic story
JOHN R. SCHNEIDER: In 1859, Charles Darwin published his bombshell hypothesis of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. The core idea is…