THIN RED LINE: Sentience and intrinsic worth as a foundation for fundamental animal rights
JANE KOTZMANN: The world is an unjust place in which human beings disrespect and exploit other sentient beings and our shared environment. To…
CLOAKED IN MALICE: Farmed animals and the greenwashing of wool
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: There is one big domain of livestock production that is often seen as exempt from the hard trade-offs of farming animals for…
Transition vs. Revolution: Towards animal legal personhood through the legislature
EVA BERNET KEMPERS: Much of animal law scholarship has been concerned with questions such as (i) which animals should be granted legal personhood;…
The EPA’s sellout to the animal research industry
RISE FOR ANIMALS: At the end of 2023, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Andrew Wheeler spoke out against animal testing and…
AG-GAGGED AGAIN: U.S. court revives law banning unauthorized recording on industrial farms
CLARK MINDOCK: A U.S. appeals court revived an Iowa law that substantially increases the financial penalties and jail time for individuals who…
UNSEEN VICTIMS: Animals, people and war
IFAW: Society is conditioned to accept that conflicts such as war and civil unrest will undoubtedly result in human harm. It is not, however,…
WE, THE ‘ANIMALS’: Whips, drones, donkeys and the future of resistance
ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: Palestinians have been live-broadcasting their genocide via social media since the beginning of the Israeli-U.S.…
‘All Illusions Must Be Broken’: Documentary probes mankind’s capacity for violence
STEVEN GAYDOS: “All Illusions Must Be Broken” is the third feature documentary the couple Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell has made for executive producers…
VEILED MEANINGS: Defending the word ‘vegan’
JORDI CASAMITJANA: In a broad context, a defender is a person who defends a particular thing or being that has been criticised or questioned, and…
‘The Pig That Therefore I Am’: Visual art and animal activism
ELIZABETH CHERRY: How does visual art affect the work of social movements? In her photography series “The Pig That Therefore I Am,” artist Miru Kim…