Martha Rosenberg: How animal rights, once a progressive stepchild, became a movement
MARTHA ROSENBERG: In the 1980s, the animal rights movement was a sorry sight. In Chicago, it consisted of three to five activists handing out soggy…
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SILENCE ABETS VIOLENCE: The case for the ‘Liberation Pledge’
NICO STUBLER: Animal agriculture brutalizes hundreds of billions of animals every year. More and more, veganism is promoted as a way for individuals…
NO TIME TO PAWS: Activist facing up to life in prison says punishment ‘will never compare’ to horror faced by animals
EMILY BROWN: Leah Doellinger is set to go to court this month to face serious charges related to her protests for animal rights, but while the…
IN THE GARDEN OF GREED AND GLUTTONY: Is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty animal agriculture problem?
JAN DUTKIEWICZ: Intensive animal agriculture, which produces... most of the meat that Americans consume, keeps the price of meat artificially low by…
BREXIT’S ANIMALISTS: How animal rights activists are causing huge agricultural trade problems
DAVID MADDOX: The UK Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill has hit the headlines for new measures which include a ban on boiling crabs and lobsters alive…
MISSION CREEPS: Five trustees quit The Vegan Society amid allegations of institutional racism
JACK WRIGHT: Five trustees quit the Vegan Society last month amid allegations of institutional racism and transphobia sparked by a bitter row over…
CONSCIENCE MATTERS: Ethical vegans exempt from compulsory Covid vaccinations, UK legal experts warn
RACHAEL BURFORD: Vegans would be exempt from compulsory workplace Covid vaccinations and employers risk legal action if they insist workers are…
ANIMAL-BASED PLANTS: Inserting animal proteins to potato and rice crops increased their yield by 50% in field tests
U-CHICAGO NEWS: Adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice and potato plants increased their yield by 50% in field tests. The…
STOLEN INNOCENCE: How vegan animal rights activists are saving Spain’s farm animals
ERICA BUIST: Spain may be famous for its love of meat – but sanctuaries across the country are coming to the rescue of its doomed cows, bulls, pigs,…
NO HOME FOR THE BRAVE: Animal rights activist denied the right to return home
NEWS.COM.AU: A controversial vegan activist who has gained notoriety for antagonising diners with her animal rights protests says she has been…
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: ‘What’s your real footprint on the animal world?’, asks writer Henry Mance
ELIZABETH CLAIRE ALBERTS: Many of us love animals. At least, we think we do. We may serve our cats gourmet food and let them sleep in our beds. We…
‘Say No to Bloodshed’: Muslim animal rights activist observes fast to protest against animal sacrifice festival
INDIA.COM: Every year, several animals are beheaded to mark the Islamic Eid Al-Adha... Muslims sacrifice domestic animals (camel, goat, sheep,…
Andrea Padilla: ‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’, says Bogotá’s newly elected councilor
JOHN EDWARDS MYERS: Andrea Padilla is a 42-year-old Bogotá city councilwoman. She has a Ph.D. in law, two master’s degrees in criminology and…
LET THEM EAT KALE: McDonald’s factory blockaded by animal rights campaigners in massive disruption
KATIE FEEHAN: Animal rights activists have set up a blockade at what they claim is the only UK factory to produce McDonald's beef burger patties in…
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: The campaign for greater animal farming and abattoir transparency goes to Australia’s High Court
SERRIN RUTLEDGE-PRIOR: An Australian animal advocacy group is taking its campaign for greater transparency in animal-use industries from the streets…
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMB: Animal rights activist stages protest with dead lamb at supermarket
NEWS.COM.AU: A controversial vegan activist has caused a stir after staging a protest with a dead lamb inside a busy supermarket. Animal rights…
A ‘COW’ ON CANNES’ MENU: Film documentary generates empathy for animals better than Disney ever could
ERIC KOHN: “Cow” opens with the closeup of a gooey calf yanked from the vaginal canal, and follows her all the way through her rough, solitary…
WE ARE ANIMALS: Documentary film ‘Cow’ was made to remind us of ‘the millions of non-human lives we use’
ANDREA ARNOLD: I grew up in north Kent on an estate surrounded by liminal wilderness. From early, I would spend entire days roaming wherever the…