Oceans Away from Home: The Suffering of Fish in Captivity
BORN FREE USA: Fish represent some of the most overlooked and neglected species in terms of basic animal husbandry and welfare yet remain some of…
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LOST INNOCENCE: Endangered tribe from the Amazon breastfeeds animals and treats them as family
NEHA BORKAR: The Awa tribe residing in the Amazonian forests in east Brazil are on the verge of extinction. The tribe, which once numbered in the…
OUT OF FOCUS: The worrisome trend of industrial animal farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
JO-ANNE McARTHUR: The industrial farming of animals is on the rise on the African continent, and this is mobilizing animal and environmental…
Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature
MARC BEKOFF: Injuries and death occur among wild animals, and that's part of what it is to be one of these amazing beings. Adélie penguins leaping…
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
CHRISTOPHER LANCETTE: Christopher Preston’s 'Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals' skyrockets off the…
TO THE RESCUE: The vegan movement has failed; it’s time to build an animal rights movement around ‘rescue’
WAYNE HSIUNG: This week, the MIT Media Lab published a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of the word “vegan” on a person’s willingness…
WHAT IF: New billboard ad campaign of a woman being milked puts a spotlight on ‘speciesism’
SPECIESISM.WTF: A new billboard campaign that’s urging the UK public to confront their speciesism is currently on display in London... The campaign…
‘Human Controlled Evolution’: Lost in the vast, dark world of gene‑editing of farmed animals
KAREN DAVIS: Genetics researchers are developing chickens with “consumer characteristics” and factory-farm “resilience"... This is the ultimate,…
‘FREE RIDING’: The right response to the ‘causal inefficacy’ objection against ethical veganism
J. BARRETT & S. RASKOFF: The creation of animal products on factory farms causes animals a tremendous amount of pain and suffering. Learning…
COP-OUT MURDERS: When police kill dogs, who pays the price?
GINO FANELLI: On the morning of June 10, 2018, Marianne Anniszkiewicz called Rochester Animal Services and police to report that a pit bull was…