Leonardo da Vinci: The animal rights and vegan activist within the artist
JONATHAN JONES: 'Leonardo da Vinci was not just a wondrous artist. He was also a wonderful man. Anyway this is what his first biographers claimed in…
Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’
ARIELLE SEIBER: 'Unlike many thinkers of his time who anthropomorphized the Earth, Leonardo da Vinci terra-morphized man. But it was not just man…
Leonardo da Vinci’s Quotes About Animals
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now…
Australia lacing sausages with poison to painfully murder TWO MILLION cats
JANE WHARTON: 'Poisonous sausages are being airdropped across huge swathes of Australia in a bid to kill millions of cats. The government has been…
Animal rights group protest secretive rabbit experiments at Nottingham University
LUKE WHELAN: 'A group of students dressed as bunnies have been protesting at universities they accuse of not sharing information about their cruel…
Watching the film Dominion is a more realistic and humane way to teach school children about meat
ANDY GREGORY: 'A primary school’s plan to slaughter two young pigs that have been reared by pupils on its mini farmyard has found itself at the…
Animal rights activists occupy British Columbia pig farm over abusive conditions
SEAN BOYNTON: 'Roughly 200 animal rights activists descended on an Abbotsford hog farm to protest abusive treatment of the animals inside. About 50…
How the social lives of animals should form part of our conservation culture
PHILIPPA BRAKES: 'Shared knowledge is an important currency for humans... Some things we learn individually, some things we learn socially... Social…
Stop the Cruel Trapping and Hunting of Bobcats in Colorado
PRAIRIE PROTECTION COLORADO: 'Bobcats are mostly hunted for their fur, which is then sold to China and Russia to make high-end fashion items. The rest…
‘Animal protection isn’t just a left issue’: Meet Australia’s vegan MP whose policies may change what you eat
ANDREW TAYLOR: 'Few politicians are asked about their diet as much as Emma Hurst, who is required as a candidate for the Animal Justice Party to be…