‘We Are Nature’: A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans
TOM OLIVER: What does the word nature mean to you? Does it conjure visions of wild places away from the hustle and bustle of people, or does it…
Reducing Speciesism: Interventions to change people’s attitudes and behavioral intentions
NICOLE BANACH: Why do we eat pigs, wear cows, and experiment on dogs when most people claim to love animals? Generally, people condemn animal…
TAMING THE ‘KINGDOM’: What shall we do with our vainglorious aspirations?
LEE HALL: The first human beings on Earth were bad ancestors. Our longing for redemption from the biblical Fall percolates through many generations…
Animalism: A nascent ideology? Exploring the ideas of animal advocacy political parties
PAUL LUCARDLE: In recent years political parties advocating animal rights and animal interests have sprang up in several countries and seem to…
MIGHT MAKES ‘RIGHT’: Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
KRISTOF DHONT: Despite the well-documented implications of individual differences in ideology with regard to reactions toward human out-groups,…
‘For Patrick’: She worked in animal research, now she’s blocked from commenting on it
RACHEL WEINER: For a long time, Madeline Krasno didn’t tell other animal rights advocates that she had worked in a monkey research lab as a college…
DEVIL IN A SKIRT: U.S. Governor writes about killing her dog, goat, and other animals in new book
MARTIN PENGELLY: In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car…
The Thinking Vegan: ‘My interest lies in animal liberation, not making more vegans’
GARY SMITH: The main mission in the animal rights movement at present is towards creating more vegans. Sadly, this obsession has caused us to…
Rethinking Revolution: Veganism, animal liberation, ecology, and the ‘left’
STEVEN BEST: Unlike the corporate-state-security apparatus, the entire spectrum of the Left is oblivious to the fact that in the last few decades a…
WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE: Respecting animal sentience and rejecting human elitism
MARC BEKOFF: Science clearly shows that numerous nonhuman animals (animals) are sentient, feeling beings who care about their own well-being and…