‘Animals’ Under Siege in Gaza: An open letter to decolonial thinkers
ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: Over the last several weeks, I’ve been frustrated that animal advocates have largely remained silent about... the…
DEFIANT DISSENT: Voluntary prosecution and the case of animal rescue
JUSTIN MARCEAU, ET AL: The impacts of voluntary prosecution are canonical in American history, from the women’s suffrage movement to the civil…
Stunningly ‘Pignorant’: Documentary exposes the horrific use of gas chambers in animal holocaust
CLAIRE COLLEY: New undercover footage showing British pigs being gassed prior to slaughter has led to renewed calls to investigate the use of CO2.…
R.I.P. Flaco: Like many a hero, the caged zoo owl made his choice… Liberty!
CARL SAFINA: Flaco the owl is gone, but his life had all the elements of a classic hero’s story, not soon forgotten. Born in captivity, he lived a…
‘Creaturely Racism’ in the Media: Issues and solutions for speciesism in the Anthropocene
FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION: Decades of political struggles and social pressure from enlightened publics have forced the media to heed its ethical…
‘Mother Cow, Mother India’: The sacred and the profane exploitation of cows in India
AMBIKA AIYADURAI: In India, it is not rare to see the veneration of the cow on one street corner, and the same animals feeding on trash at the next.…
OMNIVORE DILEMMA: Moralistic stereotyping of vegans
BEN DE GROEVE: Attitudes toward vegans can be markedly ambivalent. On the one hand, vegans may evoke admiration among omnivores for their moral…
PRIDE IN PREJUDICE: Speciesism in everyday language
STEFAN LEACH: Anthropocentric speciesism manifests in the belief that the welfare of humans is more valuable compared to, for example, dolphins,…
‘Christspiracy’: Documentary set for release in over 600 movie theaters around the world
POLLY FOREMAN: Christspiracy will be screened in over 600 movie theaters around the world on March 20th and March 24th in all of the US, UK,…
R.I.P. Steven Wise: Legal force for animal rights, dies at 73
HARRISON SMITH: Steven M. Wise, a legal warrior for animal rights who argued that chimpanzees, elephants, whales and other highly intelligent…