A ‘COW’ ON CANNES’ MENU: Film documentary generates empathy for animals better than Disney ever could
ERIC KOHN: “Cow” opens with the closeup of a gooey calf yanked from the vaginal canal, and follows her all the way through her rough, solitary…
BREAKING THE ‘SUPPLY PAIN’: Major supplier of lab animals to close, sparking fresh debate about use of mice and rats in research
MELISSA DAVEY: A major supplier of laboratory animals to Australian researchers since 1988 will close within the next 18 months due to financial…
WE ARE ANIMALS: Documentary film ‘Cow’ was made to remind us of ‘the millions of non-human lives we use’
ANDREA ARNOLD: I grew up in north Kent on an estate surrounded by liminal wilderness. From early, I would spend entire days roaming wherever the…
SOMEONE, NOT SOMETHING: Changing how we talk about nonhuman animals
DEBRA MERSKIN: Nonhuman animals value their own lives, have their own interests and experience a range of emotions similar to our own that run the…
#FreeHappy: Legal brief filed with New York’s highest court in landmark elephant rights case
LAUREN CHAPLIN: The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a brief with New York’s highest court in our habeas corpus case demanding the right to…
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: Inside sickening animal slaughter festivals, from burning bulls to blow-torched dogs
JOSH SAUNDERS: Thousands of dogs were brutally killed as part of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival last month – but the controversial event... a 10-day…
LORDS OF THE FLIES: Lobsters’ feelings loom large as House of Lords debates Britain’s ‘animal welfare’ bill
WILLIAM BOOTH: How does a lobster feel when it's dropped into the boiling pot?... Is an octopus sad, sometimes? Does the squid learn its lessons?…
EXPORTING TORTURE: Zebrafish on Ecstasy and feeding mice human feces, NIH hikes funding for animal testing abroad
CARLIN BECKER: The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in the last two…
‘PET’ CLOWNS: Responsible ‘pet ownership’ regulations are racist, some scholars argue
GRACE BUREAU: The term “responsible pet ownership” has its roots in “racism, classism, and the White dominant culture.” That is according to…
UNBEARABLE TRUTHS: Mom unhappy with vegan activists after son confronted by images of slaughtered animals
DAVE OWEN: A young mother has rounded on vegan activists who she says exposed her three-year-old son to gruesome graffiti depicting butchered…