SOMEONE, NOT SOMETHING: Changing how we talk about nonhuman animals
DEBRA MERSKIN: Nonhuman animals value their own lives, have their own interests and experience a range of emotions similar to our own that run the…
#FreeHappy: Legal brief filed with New York’s highest court in landmark elephant rights case
LAUREN CHAPLIN: The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a brief with New York’s highest court in our habeas corpus case demanding the right to…
THE HUMAN SPIRIT: Inside sickening animal slaughter festivals, from burning bulls to blow-torched dogs
JOSH SAUNDERS: Thousands of dogs were brutally killed as part of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival last month – but the controversial event... a 10-day…
LORDS OF THE FLIES: Lobsters’ feelings loom large as House of Lords debates Britain’s ‘animal welfare’ bill
WILLIAM BOOTH: How does a lobster feel when it's dropped into the boiling pot?... Is an octopus sad, sometimes? Does the squid learn its lessons?…
EXPORTING TORTURE: Zebrafish on Ecstasy and feeding mice human feces, NIH hikes funding for animal testing abroad
CARLIN BECKER: The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in the last two…
‘PET’ CLOWNS: Responsible ‘pet ownership’ regulations are racist, some scholars argue
GRACE BUREAU: The term “responsible pet ownership” has its roots in “racism, classism, and the White dominant culture.” That is according to…
UNBEARABLE TRUTHS: Mom unhappy with vegan activists after son confronted by images of slaughtered animals
DAVE OWEN: A young mother has rounded on vegan activists who she says exposed her three-year-old son to gruesome graffiti depicting butchered…
‘VIEWS THAT ABUSE’: New report says cruel, fake animal rescue videos still prevalent on YouTube
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: A new investigation from the global charity World Animal Protection further exposes the shocking scale of a cruel and…
THE HEART OF THE MATTER: Animals’ hearts reveal their hidden emotional worlds
CLAUDIA WASCHER: It’s not only humans who feel emotions. In his 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin…
WILD SOULS: What makes an animal wild?
BOYCE UPHOLT: Before Zion was a name for a national park, it was another word for Jerusalem. Eventually, it morphed into a metaphor, shorthand for…