MENTAL LITMUS: If animals are like our children, let us treat them alike
PAUL J. McLAUGHLIN: Animals are not humans in their mental processes or physical forms. However, that does not mean that they do not deserve…
FAUX OUTRAGE: Animal rights activists have carried out a ‘shocking’ protest
NEIL SHAW: Animal rights activists have carried out a shocking protest in London - displaying a dead dog, cat and pig. Farm investigations group…
BEHIND THE MASK: How ‘One Health’ instrumentalizes nonhuman animals
L. SYD M JOHNSON: One Health (OH) is an approach to health that views the health of humans, nonhuman animals, and ecosystems as interconnected.…
The ‘Animal-Based Food Taboo’: Climate change denial in media and journalism
NURIA ALMIRON: Climate change denial refers to the stances that advocate against the evidence posited for human-induced global warming... Since the…
‘War Through the Eyes of Animals’: Ukrainian anthology film set for release
MAX GOLDBART: Sean Penn-starring Ukrainian anthology movie War Through the Eyes of Animals has wrapped shooting in LA and more details have emerged…
From ‘Cowspiracy’ to ‘Seaspiracy’: Discursive strategies in contemporary vegan advocacy documentaries
ENRIC BURGOS: This article offers an analysis of the discursive strategies implemented in Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy, contrasting them with those…
ILLUSION OF FEAR: Who is scared of the Animal Liberation Front?
THE VEGAN REPORT: Terrorism, violent, criminal, extremist, radical, illegal, those are the kinds of words attached to the animal liberation front, a…
Communicating Vegan Utopias: The counterfactual construction of human-animal futures
MATTHEW ADAMS: There can be little doubt that industrialized animal agriculture reveals human-animal relations defined by routinized,…
‘UP IN THE AIR’: Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?
T. KORTETMAKI: Climate change compels us to rethink the ethics of our dietary choices and has become an interesting issue for ethicists concerned…
MORE THAN WORDS: Should the animal rights movement make use of ‘deliberative’ activism?
FRIDIRIKE SPANG: To date, animal rights activists rely primarily on non-deliberative activism, such as strikes, protests, boycotts, demonstrations,…