ROAD TO FREEDOM: 10 major victories for animal rights in 2021
ELISA ALLEN: These past 12 months have been quite a rollercoaster ride. But while we adjusted to the “new normal”, animal rights campaigners made…
Karen Davis: Does guilt have a place in animal rights activism?
KAREN DAVIS: The fact that animals are suffering and dying for appetites that can be satisfied in many other ways makes some people, perhaps many,…
NIH under investigation for $1.2M purchase of beagles for ‘hideous’ experiments
ANGELICA STABILE: The National Institutes of Health was accused of involvement in a $1.2 million contract over the past decade to purchase beagles…
Karen Davis: Moral injury in animal advocates and nonhuman animals
KAREN DAVIS: Through the years, people have asked me how I can stand knowing what chickens and other farmed animals go through without going insane.…
VET MIND-SET: Probe into Australia’s New South Wales veterinarian training program reveal shocking animal cruelty
CATIE McLEOD: Veterinarians slaughtered 12 sheep by cutting their throats without stunning them first as part of a training program two top NSW…
Seagulls, Songbirds and Parrots: What new research tells us about their cognitive ability
CLAUDIA WASCHER: It isn’t that easy to assess how an animal perceives information from the environment, processes it and decides to act. But…
A RACE TO THE DEATH: The death of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit illuminates the cruelty of horse racing
MEREDITH CASH: Medina Spirit, the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby who was shrouded in controversy following a failed drug test, died... The…
PEAK CRUELTY: Christmas has become a celebration of animal abuse
CHAS NEWKEY-BURDEN: It’s often said that turkeys wouldn’t vote for Christmas. But why would any animal put a tick in that box? The 12 days have…
‘The Animal That Therefore I Am’: The silence of the beasts and the words of fools
SHANNON BAILEY: One can say about animals what Nietzsche said about books (at least about all the books he wrote before him), that is, they suspect…
THE ELEPHANT IN THE POOL: The cruelty and exploitation of elephant tourism in Thailand
DAVID LUEKENS: An Asian elephant struts into the pool and dips its head beneath the surface, using the tip of its trunk like a snorkel. Standing on…