THEY HAVE ‘BALLS’: Fox hunters demand ‘minority’ protection from animal rights groups
ABAGAIL BUCHANAN: Under the UK's 2010 Equality Act, discrimination on the basis of characteristics including age, sex, religion or belief –…
R.I.P. Frans de Waal: Primatologist who brought us closer to our nonhuman relatives passed away
JOSHUA M. PLOTNIK: Frans B. M. de Waal, one of the giants in the study of primate behavior and a remarkably prolific scientific and popular book…
‘DEAL’ OR ‘NO DEAL’: Is the animal rights/welfare movement united in getting things done?
KELSEY PIPER: It’s one of those facts of the world that most people know but don’t really want to know: Billions of animals on factory farms live…
The ‘Internet of Animals’: A new satellite-based system could transform what we know about wildlife
HILLARY ROSNER: Back in 2001, sitting on a porch one evening in Panama, the German ornithologist had the germ of an idea for an “internet of…
Callous Carnivores: Do only jerks eat meat?
SOPHIE ATTWOOD: Much has been written on the link between the 'OCEAN' model and diet, with personality, particularly higher neuroticism and lower…
CAUSAL CLAIMS: Animal rights is not a ‘left’ or ‘right’ cause, and never was
MERRITT CLIFTON: The venerable Eric Mills, among the oldest, longest involved, and still most dynamic of politically left-leaning animal rights…
VEGAN RADICALISM: Vegans are the dissenters in society’s war on animals; that’s why we need them.
JISHNU GUHA-MAJUMDAR: Despite decades of advocacy, vegans and veganism remain deeply unpopular, even detested. Many influential animal activists are…
REPORT: Choosing animal advocacy tactics to change public opinion and reform institutions
MAX CARPENDALE: In the pursuit of social change, social movements have used a variety of tactics to attempt to reform institutions and change public…
If the political ‘left’ is serious about democracy, animal rights must become a core issue
ASTRA TAYLOR: For decades, animal industries, including meat, dairy, and commercial fishing, have been working successfully to undermine democracy…
Rhetorical Provocation: Can animal ethics actually rest on rational arguments?
M. HUTH: As an emotionally charged field of argumentation, the debates regarding animals seem to be particularly open to provocative strategies.…