NOW WITH FEELINGS: ‘Assume that animals have feelings too’, say cognitive biologists
LEIDEN UNIVERSITY: We should assume that animals can have feelings too. From an ethical point of view this should inform our dealings with animals,…
MURDER CONFIDENTIAL: Animal research panel sues own university, fearing harassment from animal rights activists
DAVID GRIMM: In an unprecedented move, members of a confidential group that oversees animal research at the University of Washington (UW) have sued…
#NoAgGag: Federal court strikes down Iowa’s second ‘ag-gag’ law as unconstitutional
CLARK KAUFFMAN: Iowa’s second attempt to criminalize unauthorized surveillance inside agricultural facilities has been ruled unconstitutional by a…
UP-CLOSE AND PERSONAL: Why the anti-factory farming movement needs direct action
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: In January of this year, seven activists were driving through factory farm country in central Iowa. For those who have never…
‘They’re cooking them alive’: Calls to ban cruel killing methods on U.S. farms
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: Vets and animal advocates in the US are calling for restrictions on “cruel” methods of culling birds, as farmers face killing…
WITH PREJUDICE: The Vegan Society calls for UK Government’s human rights reform proposals to be abandoned
THE VEGAN SOCIETY: The Vegan Society called for the government’s reform proposals to the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1988), that would undermine or…
SUPER-NATURE: The owl is an engineering ‘spirit animal’
MANASEE WAGH: Since the earliest days of human flight, inventors have been inspired by birds. The Wright brothers, for instance, recognized that…
STOLEN HEART: First person to receive gene-edited pig heart dies two months after historic transplant
KAREN WEINTRAUB: David Bennett, 57, who received a pig heart in January in place of his own failing one, died. It's not yet clear precisely what…
‘DOWN’ ON THE FARM: Animal cruelty is legal on farms; a U.S. judge is questioning that
KENNY TORRELLA: In 2018, Erin Wing worked for two months at a 1,000-cow dairy farm in Chambersburg, a small Pennsylvania town about three hours west…
Geertrui Cazaux -Tierbefreiung: On animal resistance, human saviourism and challenging the speciesist ‘common sense’
TRUDI BRUGES: Last year, Geertrui Cazaux -Tierbefreiung was interviewed by the German animal rights magazine Tierbefreiung (Animal Liberation). It…