‘Vanguardism’: Who can lead the animal rights movement to the ‘promised land’?
NICO MULLER: How can and should systems of animal exploitation be dismantled? Philosophers in the past have sometimes brushed this off as “to a…
NARD 14: National Animal Rights Day (June 2, 2024)
NARD: The National Animal Rights Day (NARD) is an annual day observed in more than 50 countries around the world, on the first Sunday in June, for the…
STUDY: International survey of animal advocacy groups’ strategies and needs
FAUNALYTICS: Animal advocacy organizations employ diverse strategies to support farmed animals that range from individual action all the way up to…
RIGHT TO EXIST: If corporations are people, then animals should be too
LYDIA MILLET: The terrifying truth of the climate and mass extinction crises is that we don’t understand all that we stand to lose... So we need to…
VARC 2024: Inaugural ‘Vegan and Animal Rights Conference’ held on April 23-24 (Manchester, UK)
VARC: The inaugural Vegan and Animal Rights Conference (VARC) was held on April 13-14, 2024 in Manchester, UK. The aim of the conference is to create…
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,…