‘Animal Freedom Movement’: Are our messages as persuasive as we think?
Animal Think Tank launched a most ambitious public opinion study, testing 60+ of the most commonly used messages from the animal freedom movement –…
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DEAD-ENDERS: What the murder of a leading conservative activist means for the animal rights movement
An ideology that holds "speech is violence, so therefore actual violence in response is justified" is a 100% dead-end ideology that will most…
Echoes of Oppression: Human slavery and animal exploitation
TOBIAS LEENAERT: In the very impressive Legacy Museum in Montgomery (AL), among the many testimonials from formerly enslaved people, it reads: “The…
‘The Real Cost of Eggs’: A global investigation exposes the hidden lives of caged hens
WE ANIMALS: From Brazil to Bulgaria, a new investigation lays bare the price hens —and humans—pay for cheap eggs. In collaboration with the Open…
Warped Logic: In Israel, veganism and genocide go hand-in-hand
ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: A lesser-known element of Israel... is its self-proclaimed status as the leading nation in animal rights. A rich body of…
BEYOND MEAT: No, our ancestors weren’t the carnivorous cavemen we once thought
HATTY WILLMOTH: Data from Google Trends shows that searches for the term “carnivore diet” roughly tripled in the UK and US from 2022 to 2025, and…
Tactics In Practice: The impact of vegan documentary and video
Björn Ólafsson: Footage of animal suffering taken in factory farms, slaughterhouses, or other contexts is undoubtedly controversial — but is it…
HELL ON EARTH: The bone-chilling evil of factory farming
BENTHAM'S BULLDOG: Extreme suffering is bad. Anyone who has been tortured, beaten, or severely hurt in some other way knows that. Its badness…
The Descent Into Horror: How activists risked everything to expose the truth about ‘gas chambers’ in the meat industry
PALA NAJANA: Animal rights activists Anna and Hendrik did something most of us would never dare. In the middle of the night, they broke into a…
Unparalleled Suffering: The first person to investigate an Eid Al-Adha massacre in North America
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Back in June countless millions (or billions) of Muslims participated in the annual tradition called Eid Al-Adha, the…
‘The Price of Milk’: A new docuseries digs into the dairy industry’s widespread influence in America
NINA B. ELKADI: A new documentary series, “The Price of Milk,” details the influence the dairy checkoff has on American eating habits, from putting…
THE TIPPING POINT: How a small minority of vegans can cause a social paradigm shift
SERHII DOVHAN: Social justice movements are often met with harsh criticism, misunderstandings, and a lack of interest from the broader public. This…
You’re not an ‘AI Vegan’? No wonder actual vegans get frustrated
ED WINTERS: The Guardian has an article with the headline ‘Meet the AI Vegans’. It seems there are those who claim that avoiding using AI is somehow…
Animal Farm at 80: Why the animals really matter in Orwell’s parable about Communism
CHARLOTTE SLEIGH: George Orwell’s Animal Farm turns 80 on August 17 2025. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that…
Systemic Veganism: Veganism as a super-phenomenon
DIOGENIS: Veganism is an interesting phenomenon, In that it is an almost exclusively urban and Middle-class+ (This refers to those in the middle…
Noël Sweeney: Barrister blends law and poetry in a call for animal justice
MILAN PERERA: Noël Sweeney, a barrister, poet and lifelong advocate for animal rights poses a question with moral weight: is our treatment of…
From Margins to Mercy: Why marginalized communities are uniquely positioned to embrace veganism
NANCY ARENAS: Veganism isn’t just about food. It’s about refusing to participate in systems of exploitation — systems that, when we look closely,…
A Moral Misfire: The insect deaths argument against veganism
ROLAND AZAR: There’s a familiar critique that often poses as ethical concern when confronting the vegan message: “Veganism is hypocritical — you…