‘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…
‘We Are Nature’: A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans
TOM OLIVER: What does the word nature mean to you? Does it conjure visions of wild places away from the hustle and bustle of people, or does it…
Reducing Speciesism: Interventions to change people’s attitudes and behavioral intentions
NICOLE BANACH: Why do we eat pigs, wear cows, and experiment on dogs when most people claim to love animals? Generally, people condemn animal…
TAMING THE ‘KINGDOM’: What shall we do with our vainglorious aspirations?
LEE HALL: The first human beings on Earth were bad ancestors. Our longing for redemption from the biblical Fall percolates through many generations…
Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
PAUL LUCARDLE: In recent years political parties advocating animal rights and animal interests have sprang up in several countries and seem to…
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
KRISTOF DHONT: Despite the well-documented implications of individual differences in ideology with regard to reactions toward human out-groups,…