WITH PREJUDICE: Judge dismisses petition seeking personhood, relocation of zoo elephants Dec 8, 2023 STEPHANIE EARLS: An animal rights group’s lawsuit accusing Cheyenne Mountain Zoo of illegally confining and neglecting its five elderly African…
The Vegan Dilemma: Do peaceful protests worsen attitudes to veganism? Dec 7, 2023 RACHEL E. MENZIES: The vegan movement promotes non-violence towards animals, and a rejection of speciesism; veganism has therefore been proposed to…
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: Idealism and practicality in the recognition of the fundamental rights of animals Dec 6, 2023 PRAVNI ZAPISI: The animal rights discourse is frequently influenced by the background of the authors of the specific ideas – practice or academia,…
Meat and Dairy: The far-right’s new battleground for ideological wars Dec 5, 2023 RIPPLE RESEARCH: In partnership with the Changing Markets Foundation, Ripple Research spearheaded an in-depth examination focused on the…
COP-OUT 28: There’s less meat on the menu at this year’s climate talks, but there’s plenty of ‘bull’ Dec 4, 2023 KENNY TORRELLA: Over the next two weeks, an estimated 70,000 people will gather in Dubai for the United Nations COP28 summit. It’s the world’s…
WAR ON THE ROSE’S: Animal rights activist sentenced to three months in jail and ‘gag’ probation; others arrested Dec 1, 2023 KATY ST. CLAIR: Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung was sentenced in Sonoma County on Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for…
Eric Purdy: Open letter to a Sonoma County jail cell Nov 30, 2023 ERIC PURDY: Wayne Hsiung, founder of DxE (Direct Action Everywhere) is sort of the Malcolm X of the animal rights movement... Wayne has just been…
The Farm Animal Movement: The fight to end factory farming in America Nov 29, 2023 JEFF THOMAS: America is undergoing an ethical revolution involving the industrial treatment of farm animals. This book tells its stories from…
Eating E.T.: Carnism and Speciesism Nov 28, 2023 RAGNHILD SOLLUND: The categorical divisions humans make of non-human animals largely determine how we treat them—for example, ‘production animals’…
EXPOSED: Cats crippled and forced to swallow balloons in NIH-funded experiments Nov 27, 2023 ALLISON MCDONALD: The NIH has shipped millions of dollars to the notorious University of Louisville (UL)...for sickening and unnecessary tests to…