PASSED OVER: What might Passover offer to the cause of animal liberation
DANIELLE CELERMAJER: Passover is the holiday of liberation, and the Passover seder — the ritual meal that takes place on the first night — is…
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THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM: Animal advocates should turn their attention to Hollywood
BRIAN KATEMAN: “Coffee Wars,” a new movie starring singer, actor, and vegan activist Kate Nash hit streaming services last month, to the delight of…
ANIMAL WARFARE: ‘Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else?’
RACHEL MONAGHAN: Since the early 1970s, the United Kingdom (U.K.) has experienced political violence undertaken by militant animal rights actors.…
HATE HAS A HOME: Woke… except for my beef bowl
MARTHA ROSENBERG: It is amazing how many Woke people are not vegan. Their anti-racism, anti-white supremacy, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia and…
TERRIBLE INJUSTICE: Truck driver who killed animal rights activist gets off with $2k fine
KIMIA AFSHAR MEHRABI: The truck driver who caused the death of 65-year-old animal rights activist Regan Russell in 2020 has pled guilty to careless…
Karen Davis: False equivalencies between humans and other animals
KAREN DAVIS: Temple Grandin is an animal science professor at Colorado State University and a consultant to the meat industry. Catherine Johnson…
CASE STUDY: Learning from the landmark SHAC animal rights campaign
TRENT DAVIDSON: While social movements are often grounded in activism, no two campaigns are alike. Furthermore, most campaigns go through a number…
TO THE RESCUE: The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: After nearly six hours of deliberation, two animal rights activists facing misdemeanor theft charges were acquitted by a…
MARX V. DARWIN: Vegan revolution or vegan evolution?
JORDI CASAMITJANA: It was the German philosopher Karl Marx who in the 19th century theorised about how people would inevitably revolt when facing…
‘Under Their Skin’: A new report series on the cruel injustices of animal leather production
COLLECTIVE FASHION JUSTICE: While leather has been used in fashion for millennia, its production today is an ethical and environmental crisis.…
HI-TECH LOWS: New technologies are trying to make factory farming more ‘palatable’
BRIAN KATEMAN: Innovation and technology are doing big things for animal welfare and the health of the planet. Meatless burgers from companies like…
Thinking Like a Chicken: Do chickens mind seeing other chickens killed in their presence?
KAREN DAVIS: A fellow activist once asked me if I believed chickens don’t mind watching and hearing other chickens being killed in their presence.…
Do Animals Not Count?: Those who claim to care about ‘marginalized voices’ have nothing to say about those who have no voice at all
MATTHEW SCHULTZ: It often feels like the progressive circle of moral concern includes every ethnic, racial and sexual minority under the sun...…
Should Vegans Have Children?: Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism
JOONA ROSANEN: Moral vegans believe that we should not eat animals or animal-based products, such as eggs or milk, because producing them causes…
‘Intersectional Veganism’: How identity politics destroyed yet another movement
ROZALI TELBIS: According to the Vegan Society, veganism seeks to “exclude — as far as is possible and practicable — all forms of exploitation of,…
HEAVENLY BODIES: Animal rights group claims responsibility for hanging frozen pig ‘carcasses’ under Montreal overpasses
LILLIAN ROY: An animal rights group is taking responsibility for the frozen pig carcasses found hanging under overpasses in Montreal Thursday…
‘Maa Ka Doodh’: Watch award-winning documentary film about India’s ‘White Revolution’ against its dairy industry
INDIA TV: Maa Ka Doodh: Uncovering A Nation’s Dairy Disaster is an investigative feature-length documentary film that follows the journey of Dr.…
Animal Rights vs. Veganism: The intersection between animal rights and veganism
JORDI CASAMITJANA: In the last decade or so, the identity of vegan and animal rights persons have overlapped a lot, to the point many may assume…