The ‘Animal-Based Food Taboo’: Climate change denial in media and journalism
NURIA ALMIRON: Climate change denial refers to the stances that advocate against the evidence posited for human-induced global warming... Since the…
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From ‘Cowspiracy’ to ‘Seaspiracy’: Discursive strategies in contemporary vegan advocacy documentaries
ENRIC BURGOS: This article offers an analysis of the discursive strategies implemented in Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy, contrasting them with those…
ILLUSION OF FEAR: Who is scared of the Animal Liberation Front?
THE VEGAN REPORT: Terrorism, violent, criminal, extremist, radical, illegal, those are the kinds of words attached to the animal liberation front, a…
Communicating Vegan Utopias: The counterfactual construction of human-animal futures
MATTHEW ADAMS: There can be little doubt that industrialized animal agriculture reveals human-animal relations defined by routinized,…
‘UP IN THE AIR’: Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?
T. KORTETMAKI: Climate change compels us to rethink the ethics of our dietary choices and has become an interesting issue for ethicists concerned…
How bad is it to eat an intelligent chicken? Children’s judgments of eating animals
JARED PIAZZA: Children engage positively with animals from a very young age. They have animal toys, care for pets, visit zoos, and learn ‘life…
‘Human Supremacy’: Selected works by vegan artist AGUGN (Agung Prabowo)
THE BACK ROOM: Agung Prabowo, better known by his artist name AGUGN, uses the printmaking technique of reduction linocut to convey themes related to…
ALTERED STATES: Associating factory farming with animal cruelty works better than zoonotic disease
OLIVIA E. GUNTHER: The human use of other animals for food is problematic for multiple reasons. For example, animals on factory farms are kept in…
‘Treating them like animals’: Presenting a case for animal rights
RAINER EBERT: When people are treated monstrously, we say they are “treated like animals.” This is because we treat animals monstrously. We mistreat…
STUDY: Motives for veganism and the influence of social media
LISA HORN: Veganism is a lifestyle choice and movement that is becoming increasingly popular, especially with the use of social media. The number of…
CLOAKED IN MALICE: Farmed animals and the greenwashing of wool
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: There is one big domain of livestock production that is often seen as exempt from the hard trade-offs of farming animals for…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…