THE ‘TRAGEDY’ OF ERROR: Performance artwork featuring live dogs generates outcry
ALEX GREENBERGER: A Nina Beier performance featuring live dogs was met with allegations of animal abuse... after footage of it went viral on social…
THE KILLER ELITE: Study proves humans are the planet’s most frightening super predator
SCIENCE DAILY: A new study conducted by Western University biology professor Liana Zanette, in collaboration with Calum Cunningham and Chris Johnson…
BLOOD MONEY: North Carolina state government to pay $885,000 to animal rights groups for undercover video lawsuit
RACHEL WEINER: North Carolina spent eight years arguing that it was constitutional to ban employees from recording undercover video at work. After…
‘LEFT’ BEHIND: Why we need ‘conservative’ politicians advocating for animals
DAVID OLROYD: Animal advocates reflect a diverse group. As well cropping-up in all demographics of age, gender, class, and nationality, those…
Mission ‘Impossible’: Plant-based meat alternatives are trying to exit the culture wars
S. MAREK MULLER: Increasingly, vegans, vegetarians and others looking for meat alternatives are seeing a new option on the menu: patties that look,…
‘An Angry Cow Is Not A Good Eating Experience’: How global media are shifting from ‘crude’ to ‘camouflaged’ speciesism
NATALIE KHAZAAL: When it comes to the treatment of nonhuman animals used for food (NUF), do global media like The New York Times coddle their…
CARNIVORE CARNAGE: The meat industry’s war on wildlife
KENNY TORRELLA: A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just…
WAR ON ‘TERROR’: Why did the successful Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign fall apart?
NOVARA MEDIA: For many people, the name 'Huntingdon Life Sciences' will live forever in infamy... In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won…
‘Dog On Trial’: Film about animal-human relationships are put to the test at Cannes Festival
SHANNON L. BOWEN: A dog is not the same as a table, right? Wrong, at least in the eyes of the law. Traditionally, judicial systems around the world…
Vegans and ‘Green-Collared Criminals’: The Depoliticization of animal advocacy in public discourse
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: Despite the pervasive public interest in animal welfare, the framing of animal rights activism in the media has largely…