VEILED MEANINGS: Defending the word ‘vegan’
JORDI CASAMITJANA: In a broad context, a defender is a person who defends a particular thing or being that has been criticised or questioned, and…
‘The Pig That Therefore I Am’: Visual art and animal activism
ELIZABETH CHERRY: How does visual art affect the work of social movements? In her photography series “The Pig That Therefore I Am,” artist Miru Kim…
Natural Born Killers: The latest secret government mission in Washington, D.C.
ANDREW DUEHREN: For more than a decade, the U.S. government has been waging a secretive campaign against restive local insurgents, deploying a team…
‘Conservation’ Paradox: Where are the vegan conservationists?
MICHAEL BURROWS: The scientists, government officials, and activists that make up the fields of conservation and wildlife management govern many…
‘Not Dumb Creatures’: New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of farmed animals
DAVID GRIMM: Over the past decade, researchers at The Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), one of the world’s leading centers for…
Lex ‘Mundi’: “I quit my job to become an animal activist, now I travel the world to protect them”
LAUREN BEAVIS: A former librarian is now on a mission to promote "total animal liberation" after quitting her job years ago. Lex Rigby, who is based…
‘BODY’ POLITICS: Veganism as Left praxis
JONATHAN DICKSTEIN: When bacon appears on the shelves of a supermarket refrigerator – pre-sliced, cling-wrapped, and bloodless – it does its best to…
WAR & PEACE: War on the animals; Peace to the plates.
MARKUS WILD: Humanism has elevated humanity above its natural condition, but our relationship to animals remains in a state of war. The legally…
WE ANIMALS MEDIA: Animal photojournalism wins at international photography awards
WE ANIMALS MEDIA: A collective of We Animals Media (WAM) photojournalists have been awarded Honorable Mentions in the Siena International Photo…
Veganism as a Threat: When meat-eaters expect vegan food to taste bad
DANIEL L. ROSENFELD: Underlying the consumption of meat, dairy, and eggs is a dominant ideology that philosophers and psychologists have termed…