THE LIES WE BURY: The myths we tell ourselves about American farming
KENNY TORRELLA: If you were to guess America’s biggest source of water pollution, chemical factories or oil refineries might come to mind. But it’s…
THE MARCH TO FREEDOM: The problem with ‘open rescue’
JON HOCHSCHARTNER: I have tremendous respect for Wayne Hsiung. Among other things, he founded Direct Action Everywhere, which I believe, whatever…
‘Female Wolf 2745’: Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and Asha the wandering wolf
ERIK MOLVAR: The Mexican gray wolf Asha’s return to the wilds has garnered nationwide attention, thanks to reporting by the Associated Press and…
CRIME OF COMPASSION: Our ‘legal system’ protects those hurting animals and punishes those trying to save them
CASSIE KING: In 2018, DxE received whistleblower footage from Sunrise Farms, a massive egg-laying operation in Petaluma that — according to court…
THE TORMENT OF ‘OTHERS’: What can caged lab monkeys tell us about free human beings?
GARET LAHVIS: After publishing more than 40 scientific papers, I left academia. In part, I left on principle. I believed that if we experimented on…
‘Sea Things In a Different Light’: Controversial ‘dead cat’ advertisement not in breach of standards authority code
LIAM O'DELL: Back in April, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organisation revealed it had put up a billboard advertisement in…
‘OPEN RESCUE’: Activists call it rescue. Farms call it stealing.
RACHEL FOBAR: In March 2017, five activists entered Circle Four Farms, an industrial pig farm in Utah owned by Smithfield Foods, one of the largest…
‘FEEDBACK’: A pig farm investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice of forced cannibalism
KENNY TORRELLA: At a pig breeding farm in Minnesota, 120 miles southeast of Minneapolis, between late 2019 and early 2020, an undercover…
UNYIELDING DEFIANCE: Why you shouldn’t laugh off rebellious orcas and sea otters too quickly
ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: The field of critical animal studies analyzes structures of oppression and power and considers pathways to dismantling…
FOR GOD’S SAKE: ‘We must do it for the animals’
FR. TERRY MARTIN: I have read much of the Revd. Professor Andrew Linzey breakthrough work concerning animals and theology/ethics, and trawling…