HELL ON EARTH: Human progress has come at the expense of animals
BRYAN WALSH: The human present is better than the past, and barring catastrophe, we can likely expect the future to be better than the present. The…
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Carlo Alvaro: ‘Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul’
CARLO ALVARO: Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first,…
Gary L. Francione: Are you a Vegan or are you an Extremist?
GARY L. FRANCIONE: You probably think animals matter morally. That is, you don't think that non-human animals are merely things to whom we can owe…
Animal (De)Liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned?
JAN DECKERS: In this book, Jan Deckers addresses the most crucial question that people must deliberate in relation to how we should treat other…
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: Animal rights advocates censored and arrested for peaceful advocacy in public park
KATIE KORTEPETER: The Law & Religion Clinic at the University of Texas and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a lawsuit…
The Voices Behind the Chalk: The Vegan activists fighting for animal liberation
CHARIS FUNG: “For you, it’s a meal. For them, it's their life.” This is one of the many slogans tourists and locals encountered beneath their feet…
What If Veganism Is Not a Choice: The Moral Psychology of Possibilities in Animal Ethics
SILVIA PANIZZA: Discussion about the ethics of buying and consuming animal products normally assume that there are two choices equally available to…
THE ART OF ANIMAL LIBERATION: Renowned activist sculptor who viewed animals as her equals has died
ALEX GREENBERGER: Lin May Saeed, an artist whose sculptures encouraged empathy with animals by way of tender narratives and quietly forceful…
‘The Thoughtful Pig’: A global campaign challenging factory farming practices
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: 'The Thoughtful Pig', a groundbreaking global campaign in partnership with World Animal Protection and All Mighty Pictures,…
Ethical Veganism: A right recognized in the Ontario Human Rights Code?
NATION WORLD NEWS: Lawyers for a vegan firefighter argued in court that veganism is a non-religious belief and therefore the right is included in…
HUMAN ‘RAISISM’: Speciesism and human supremacy in biology and culture is pushing planetary boundaries
ROBERT SANDERS: It’s clear that humans have achieved a unique status in Earth’s history. We are the only creature that dominate all other organisms…
MEAT MARX: The base, superstructure and cultivated meat
JON HOCHSCHARTNER: For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. The technology faces a number of…
‘Every 30 Minutes’: New veganism billboard ad campaign makes some people angry for the wrong reasons
GEN V: Do you know how many animals are killed by the meat, egg, and dairy industries every year, every month, every day? The truth is way more…
THE LIES WE BURY: The myths we tell ourselves about American farming
KENNY TORRELLA: If you were to guess America’s biggest source of water pollution, chemical factories or oil refineries might come to mind. But it’s…
THE MARCH TO FREEDOM: The problem with ‘open rescue’
JON HOCHSCHARTNER: I have tremendous respect for Wayne Hsiung. Among other things, he founded Direct Action Everywhere, which I believe, whatever…
CRIME OF COMPASSION: Our ‘legal system’ protects those hurting animals and punishes those trying to save them
CASSIE KING: In 2018, DxE received whistleblower footage from Sunrise Farms, a massive egg-laying operation in Petaluma that — according to court…
‘Sea Things In a Different Light’: Controversial ‘dead cat’ advertisement not in breach of standards authority code
LIAM O'DELL: Back in April, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organisation revealed it had put up a billboard advertisement in…
‘OPEN RESCUE’: Activists call it rescue. Farms call it stealing.
RACHEL FOBAR: In March 2017, five activists entered Circle Four Farms, an industrial pig farm in Utah owned by Smithfield Foods, one of the largest…