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…
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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…
THE BIG QUESTION: When will we stop eating animals?
CALUM CHACE: Jacy Reese Anthis is a polymath and rising star in the fields of Effective Altruism (EA) and artificial intelligence (AI). He is a…
‘Game-Changer’: The fascinating and wide-ranging creative lives of animals
MARC BEKOFF: Carol Gigliotti's eye-opening book 'The Creative Lives of Animals'... is a game-changer. She shows how important creativity —…
Challenge: PETA launches $1 million design competition to create vegan wool
JENNIFER HAHN: Animal rights organisation PETA has launched the Vegan Wool Challenge, calling on designers and researchers to develop a vegan…
‘Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism’
OPHELIE VERON: I am excited to share a new volume that I co-edited with my colleagues Paul Hodge (University of Newcastle), Andrew McGregor…
IN THE NILE: Watch attendees of COP27 conference in Egypt deny destructive impact of animal agriculture on climate change
KLAUS MITCHELL: Plant Based News (PBN) founder Klaus Mitchell gave a talk on the environmental impact of animal agriculture at COP27.
The 2022…
International celebrities, academics and business leaders call on world leaders to end factory farming
LOOK TO THE STARS: More than 200 prominent individuals have united through an international open letter to call on world leaders at the COP27…