‘Do Not Destroy the Work of God For the Sake of Food’: From slaughterhouse worker to vegan advocate
SARX: Former slaughterhouse worker Doug Maw offers some eye-opening insights into the meat industry, the enormous challenges of working in an…
SADDLED WITH PAIN: The unknown emotional and physical lives of sport horses
MARC BEKOFF: Many who enjoy watching equestrian sports and love horses do not know how the horses are treated behind the scenes. Julie Taylor,…
‘NOT PROPERTY’: Here’s how the animal exploitation industries thwart legal progress
JOE WILLS: On June 14, the New York Court of Appeals handed down its eagerly anticipated opinion in Nonhuman Rights Project v Breheny. The case…
KILLER ‘ART’: Art displaying slowly dying animals removed from museums
TAIYLOR SIMONE MITCHELL: An artist who uses dead or dying creatures in his artwork had his installation — filled with 15 goldfish in IV bags —…
UN-HAPPY: Legal fight to free Happy the elephant continues in New York
NhRP: The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a motion to reargue the 5-2 decision by New York’s highest court issued in June in a landmark case…
MURDER BY NUMBERS: Latest global animal slaughter statistics and charts
KAROL ORZECHOWSKI: In 2020, we published a comprehensive blog looking at the number of animals slaughtered globally for food every year, based on…
INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: Animal activists of Canada may have new weapon against cruelty
KYLE MACDONALD: Spearheaded by Canada’s efforts for reconciliation, legal actors and law institutions have within the last decade integrated…
U.S. court rules university withheld animal experiment records, spied on animal rights group
COURTNEY VAUGHN: A court has determined Oregon Health & Science University withheld public records and illegally surveilled an animal rights…
On Biolabs and Cows: Getting to the heart of the matter
MAUREEN MEDINA: The demand for bovine heart valves to treat cardiovascular disease—the top global killer—is rising, and there is a cruel irony—with…
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): The animal crisis is a human crisis
ALICE CRARY & LORI GRUEN: Today it is undeniable that the human use and destruction of animals and their habitats, including practices that…