Solidarity With Animals: Violence and Love
EILEEN CRIST: The animal economy, wherein animals routinely suffer truncated and brutalized lives, weaves massively through the global economy.…
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VEGANISM
LOOK AND LISTEN: The screams and scratches of pigs struggling to escape slaughterhouse gas chambers
VIVA: Of the 10.7 million pigs killed in the UK each year, almost 90 per cent are stunned via gassing before being slaughtered. Pigs are lowered…
‘But Can They Suffer?’: The malevolence of meat
MATTHEW ADELSTEIN: With the upcoming farm bill that could determine the fate of lots of animals, it’s time to question our consumption of meat. The…
THE RIGHT TO BE ‘EO’: How does the Oscar-nominated film about a mute donkey end?
ANDREW McGOWAN: With a plot centered around a meandering mute donkey, the Oscar-nominated Polish film EO has more than a few ambiguous moments, and…
THE PIG FACTORY: China’s plan to increase ‘pork’ production by building high-rise factory farms
DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI: The first sows arrived in late September at the hulking, 26-story high-rise towering above a rural village in central China.…
SICK TO DEATH: The fight for the right to rescue starts now
WAYNE HSIUNG: Nearly 20 years ago, Adam Durand was convicted and given a near-maximum sentence (6 months) for openly rescuing animals from an egg…
Gary L. Francione: Is eating plants as morally objectionable as eating animals?
GARY L. FRANCIONE: On my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, I often receive comments to the effect that we cannot morally distinguish animal…
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: The father of ‘Reducetarianism’ doesn’t believe people can be vegan
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: Brian Kateman, founder of the Reducetarian Foundation,... believes that people can save animal lives by eating less animals,…
‘Save the Last Pig’: Smithfield’s Farmer John slaughterhouse set to close in February amid animal rights protests
CITY NEWS SERVICE: The Farmer John slaughterhouse in Vernon is slated to close for good in a matter of days, leaving about 2,000 workers with…
THE FORESAKEN: The environmental movement forgot about animals
BRIAN KATEMAN: The environmental movement as we know it today is a lot bigger than hugging trees and picking up trash... When it comes to the…
‘White Gold’: The sickening cruelty behind the bull semen trade
JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL: As crimes go, it took balls. Just before Christmas, thieves stole 60 containers of bull sperm from a farm in Olfen, a small town…
As egg prices rise, evidence humans will never care about animals rises too
UNPARALLELED SUFFERING: About a decade ago I watched a partially unforgettable Josh Tetrick TEDx talk called The Future of Food. Josh is the CEO of…
Veganism: Why we should see it as a political movement rather than a dietary choice
A. COCHRANE & M-D. COJOCARU: Discussions around veganism often revolve around questions of what we should eat. Should vegans eat avocados, the…
‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie’: Ahead of his movie premiere, Moby reflects on being vegan and animal rights activism
NICK RUSKELL: Before he became a million-selling electronic artist in the ’90s, Moby was a mover and shaker in New York’s legendary ’80s hardcore…
Sailesh Rao: How the mainstream media censors the ‘Cow in the Room’
SAILESH RAO: In our system of normalized violence, deceptions are par for the course. But it is hard to fathom the comical extent to which…
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…
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…