Animal Rights Surveillance: Big Ag is watching
The Animal Agriculture Alliance (AAA) openly advertises that monitoring animal activists is one of its main functions. On its website, it explains…
Animal rights activist to serve 90 days in jail, fined $102,548 for rescuing injured chickens
Zoe Rosenberg's attorneys argued that ethics justified her actions — like breaking a car window to rescue an overheating dog. But they failed to…
Political Animals?: How U.S. voters respond to candidates making farmed animal policy proposals
One of the most direct ways of changing the harmful practices of the animal agriculture industry is through government policy. Pro-animal policy…
‘Ethical Dairy’?: Why a BBC story masks the harms of dairy and distracts from real progress
It’s time to confront the uncomfortable truth: Headlines that give millions of people false confidence are not harmless: they delay real change,…
SHARK Attack: How a small animal rights group uses drones to fight cruelty
Since the early years of the 21st century SHARK (Showing Animals Respect & Kindness) has relied on unmanned aerial vehicles and ultralight…
Animal Exploitation: What’s the real problem? Not advertising, not subsidies, and not ‘factory farms’
Animal exploitation isn’t a problem mainly created by “meat, dairy, and egg industries’ propaganda”. Which propaganda tells humans to breed and use…
‘VegMediaWatch’: New group combats anti-vegan bias in the mainstream media
Through respectful, fact-based social media posts, VegMediaWatch holds journalists and news outlets accountable for publishing biased stories that…
‘Captive Ambassadors’: The hidden lives of zoo animals
The book 'Captive Ambassadors' exposes the hidden lived realities for animals in zoos. It challenges the notion of zoo animals as "ambassadors" for…
‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’: Wild animals deserve rights, too
A large part of animal advocacy centers around animals raised for human consumption. 'Animal lovers', ranging from vegans to pet-lovers, rarely…
LOOK AND SEE: Reputation doesn’t matter with the animal rights movement; attention does
PETA is likely the most effective animal rights organization of all time despite its disruptive and often unpopular tactics. The organization created…