It’s Asymmetry: When animal rights advocacy is expected to carry human struggles (and not vice versa)
It’s Asymmetry: When animal rights advocacy is expected to carry human struggles (and not vice versa)
Animal rights activists are expected to center human struggles — whether through labor justice, racial equity, or anti-colonial narratives — to be seen as relevant or inclusive. Meanwhile, their own cause — the liberation of nonhuman animals from systemic use, commodification, and enslavement — is treated as secondary, optional, or even distracting. This reveals a structural bias: inclusion is not mutual. Animal rights activists are asked to stretch their ethics across species and systems, while others remain comfortably within anthropocentric boundaries… The concept of collective liberation is often invoked to justify the expectation that animal rights activists should integrate human […]
UNBOUNDED: Jane Goodall saw nature as a spiritual sanctuary
UNBOUNDED: Jane Goodall saw nature as a spiritual sanctuary
When asked whether she identified with a particular faith tradition, Jane Goodall smiled impishly and replied, “Is the forest not a cathedral? For me, it is, with its canopies of trees and beautiful lights.” For her, the sacred was not confined to ritual spaces; it was alive in root and branch, in the luminous weave of life itself. That was Jane Goodall’s genius: an eloquence that dissolved boundaries between science and spirit, between human and animal, between nature as backdrop and nature as sanctuary… It was the summer of 2000, at the United Nations’ World Peace Summit of Religious and […]
STUDY: Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats
STUDY: Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats
The study suggests that over 20 species of birds from all around the world that are separated by over 50 million years of evolution use the same call when they see their respective brood parasite species. However, past work has shown that birds that have never seen a cuckoo do not produce this call, but they do after watching others produce it when there is a cuckoo nearby. In other words, while the response to the call is instinctive, producing the call itself is learned. Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our […]
