Seb Alex: On photographing the animals society doesn’t want to see
POLLY FOREMAN: While walking around an Indonesian rabbit farm with his camera, Seb Alex noticed a baby rabbit was about to suffocate. They had…
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BLIND RAGE: Animal rights group releases undercover video of shocking conditions inside Finnish fur farms
DANIEL HARPER: An animal rights group has published a shocking video of animal cruelty within Finnish fur farms revealing obese, infection-ridden…
‘Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves’: What harms them harms us
MARC BEKOFF: NYU professor Jeff Sebo's book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other…
ANIMAL LIVES MATTER TOO: What animal advocates owe to the legacy of Martin Luther King
MERRITT CLIFTON: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, in whose honor we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, never had any visible…
‘TRANSFARMATION’: Invitation to free online premiere of film on what happens when farmers have a change of heart
WE ANIMALS MEDIA: In the new short film, “Transfarmation”, a woman from Switzerland helps transform more than 100 animal farms into vegan farms and…
‘Enough to Crush One’s Heart’: 50 alarming animal cruelty statistics
ALEXANDER LAYBOURNE: Animal cruelty statistics make for harrowing reading. If you have a sensitive disposition, then discretion is advised. While…
Gregory F. Tague: An evolutionary case for veganism
GREGORY F. TAGUE: Genetically, morphologically, and behaviorally humans are similar to great apes since we are apes. Michael Wilson (2021) believes…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: What humans owe animals
MARTHA NUSSBAUM: Animals are in trouble all over the world. Our world is dominated by humans everywhere: on land, in the seas, and in the air. No…
‘FIRST, DO HARM’: The bitter civil war dividing American veterinarians over cruel factory farm system
MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the premier organization that represents most of America’s 121,000…
Stephen F. Eisenman: Confessions of a vegan evangelist
STEPHEN F. EISENMAN: What omnivores complain about is true. Vegans are evangelical. Case in point: On the day I ate my last morsel of Parmigiano…
Karen Davis: Why are farmed animals forsaken by their advocates?
KAREN DAVIS: Today, most animal organizations in the U.S. include farmed animals, whose plight on factory farms they acknowledge. The question is,…
Unparalleled Suffering: The dumbest thing I believed in to date
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Like most humans, one of my favorite things to eat growing up was cheeseburgers made from cow carcasses... but it’s been…
MORALIZED MINORITY: What can we learn from studying anti-vegan groups online
REBECCA GREGSON: Vegans are examples of “moralised minority practice identities” (or “moral-identity minorities” for short): small segments of the…
UNTIL EVERY CAGE IS EMPTY: The escalating fight against animal agriculture
NORA KELLY: At 6 a.m. on April 28, 2019, two school buses stopped on Harris Road in the heart of Abbotsford farm country. The doors opened and out…
IN MEMORIAM: Help animals on ‘International Animal Rights Day’
ANIMAL EQUALITY: On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to…
‘SHOCKING’ CRUELTY: Dutch authorities investigating abused pigs after animal rights group record secret footage
DUTCHNEWS: The Dutch product safety board NVWA has started a criminal investigation following the publication of undercover footage showing pigs…
‘Bones and All’: Cannibal-themed film makes the ultimate case for veganism
CAT WOODS: A love story, and one with intriguing ethical questions of culture and class, "Bones and All" is the acclaimed new movie from director…
STUDY: How pigs resolve conflicts, according to science
TOVE DANOVICH: As anyone who has ever been on a team or a tight friend group knows, an unresolved conflict can tear a group apart. Sometimes it can…