They Eat Horses, Don’t They?: Horses make things extra-complicated when we debate how humans should treat animals
LI ROBBINS: When Black Beauty was a foal he led an idyllic life, gambolling around a pond in a large pleasant meadow... The 1877 novel by Anna…
WITH PREJUDICE: Judge dismisses petition seeking personhood, relocation of zoo elephants
STEPHANIE EARLS: An animal rights group’s lawsuit accusing Cheyenne Mountain Zoo of illegally confining and neglecting its five elderly African…
The Vegan Dilemma: Do peaceful protests worsen attitudes to veganism?
RACHEL E. MENZIES: The vegan movement promotes non-violence towards animals, and a rejection of speciesism; veganism has therefore been proposed to…
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: Idealism and practicality in the recognition of the fundamental rights of animals
PRAVNI ZAPISI: The animal rights discourse is frequently influenced by the background of the authors of the specific ideas – practice or academia,…
Meat and Dairy: The far-right’s new battleground for ideological wars
RIPPLE RESEARCH: In partnership with the Changing Markets Foundation, Ripple Research spearheaded an in-depth examination focused on the…
COP-OUT 28: There’s less meat on the menu at this year’s climate talks, but there’s plenty of ‘bull’
KENNY TORRELLA: Over the next two weeks, an estimated 70,000 people will gather in Dubai for the United Nations COP28 summit. It’s the world’s…
WAR ON THE ROSE’S: Animal rights activist sentenced to three months in jail and ‘gag’ probation; others arrested
KATY ST. CLAIR: Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung was sentenced in Sonoma County on Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for…
Eric Purdy: Open letter to a Sonoma County jail cell
ERIC PURDY: Wayne Hsiung, founder of DxE (Direct Action Everywhere) is sort of the Malcolm X of the animal rights movement... Wayne has just been…
The Farm Animal Movement: The fight to end factory farming in America
JEFF THOMAS: America is undergoing an ethical revolution involving the industrial treatment of farm animals. This book tells its stories from…
Eating E.T.: Carnism and Speciesism
RAGNHILD SOLLUND: The categorical divisions humans make of non-human animals largely determine how we treat them—for example, ‘production animals’…