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…
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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.
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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…
UNDENIABLY WAIRY: How ‘big dairy’ infiltrated TikTok
BJORN OLAFSSON: If you don’t know who “MrBeast” is, your kids almost certainly do. He’s massive with the Gen Z demographic, consistently trending on…
‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie’: Moby to open film festival with animal rights movie then give it away for free
JEREMY KAY: Musician and animal rights activist Moby will open the 29th Slamdance Film Festival with his feature directorial debut Punk Rock Vegan…
Karen Davis: Our violence toward nature and animals permeates everything
KAREN DAVIS: Most people Left, Right, Center are dissociated from the world that exists outside our parochial domain. Environmentalists too are…
‘The Land of Ahimsa’: New vegan documentary deep-dives into India’s complicated history with food and peace
PLANT BASED NEWS: A new feature-length documentary aims to restore the meaning of ahimsa – respect and non-violence towards all living beings –…
‘Barn 8’: The story of a band of animal activists who plan a heist to free 900,00 chickens
SARX: Deb Olin Unferth, American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist is interviewed on her latest novel Barn 8, the enthralling story of a…
Dear Michael Moore: Why aren’t our fellow animals on your ‘progressive’ agenda?
KAREN DAVIS: Dear Michael Moore, You and I are on the same side of social justice and politics. I appreciate your commentaries and exhortations on…
‘I Could Never Go Vegan’: New documentary explores why so many feel that way
SOPHIE HIRSH: Pretty much every non-vegan on Earth has uttered the phrase, “I could never go vegan.” (And so has nearly every vegan, before learning…
Raging Over Spilt Milk: Behind the scenes of Animal Rebellion
TOM ELLEN: People were shocked, and understandably so,’ says Steve Bone, a 40-year-old photographer from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. ‘I mean — you walk…
Vegan activist takes Switzerland to human rights court over prison diet
PHILIP ALTERMANN: Switzerland has been challenged at the European court of human rights over a failure to provide adequate vegan diets to a prisoner…
‘Taking Note’: Over 100 musicians interviewed for new animal rights film
EMILY CARTER: A new documentary charting the history and crossover of music with animal rights has been revealed. Featuring over 100 interviews with…
STUDY: A look into Reddit’s anti-vegan community
LINDSEY STOWELL: With the ongoing rise of vegan culture, there has also been a startling increase in the number of people opposed to it. As veganism…