STUDY: Chimps and bonobos can recognize long-lost friends and family for decades
CORINNE PURTIL: For humans, memory is essential to maintaining our complex web of social relationships. We have to remember who is a friend and who…
‘The Politics of Sight’: Bearing Witness, animal rights and the slaughterhouse vigil
STEVE COOKE: Many forms of animal rights activism are seen as threatening, shocking, confrontational, even militant. Some, however, escape these…
THE BEAST WITHIN: Animal cruelty is the price we pay for cheap meat
PAUL SOLOTAROFF: Sarah, like anyone who’s spent much time working farms, is functionally built through the thighs and trunk, herding pregnant hogs…
UNCIVIL ACTS: Animal rescue as civil disobedience
TONY MILLIGAN: The two dominant forms of animal rescue, in this militant and challenging sense, are covert rescue (with identity concealment) and…
RUN, CHICKEN, RUN: What should kids know about factory farming?
KENNY TORRELLA: The children’s movie Chicken Run is one of the darker and more subversive films made for kids: The story follows a flock of lovable,…
EDEN WAS VEGAN: Human Wrongs Tribunal of Ontario rejects protections for ethical vegans
CAMILLE LABCHUK: In a surprising and troubling decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled against Adam Knauff, a firefighter who…
They Eat Horses, Don’t They?: Horses make things extra-complicated when we debate how humans should treat animals
LI ROBBINS: When Black Beauty was a foal he led an idyllic life, gambolling around a pond in a large pleasant meadow... The 1877 novel by Anna…
WITH PREJUDICE: Judge dismisses petition seeking personhood, relocation of zoo elephants
STEPHANIE EARLS: An animal rights group’s lawsuit accusing Cheyenne Mountain Zoo of illegally confining and neglecting its five elderly African…
The Vegan Dilemma: Do peaceful protests worsen attitudes to veganism?
RACHEL E. MENZIES: The vegan movement promotes non-violence towards animals, and a rejection of speciesism; veganism has therefore been proposed to…
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: Idealism and practicality in the recognition of the fundamental rights of animals
PRAVNI ZAPISI: The animal rights discourse is frequently influenced by the background of the authors of the specific ideas – practice or academia,…