The Cost of Silence: What Ridglan Farms reveals about us
Actions like those taken at Ridglan Farms are not born out of disregard for the law, but out of the belief that the law is failing to protect those…
Zoom w/ Moby: Music legend and animal rights activist Moby joins Ridglan beagles rescue
Music legend and lifelong animal rights activist Moby joins the rescuers who walked into Ridglan Farms — the second-largest beagle experimentation…
WE’LL BE BACK: More than 2,000 animal rights activists needed to rescue all beagles from Ridglan Farm
The first beagle rescue on March 15 showed the power of open rescue. Millions of people were inspired when 100 people walked into Ridglan Farms,…
THE WELFARE BADGE: Is ‘The Vegan Society’ the plant-rich society?
The Vegan Society exists to promote the rights of other animals and to demand they are respected, and to support initiatives that align with such a…
DIVIDE & CONQUER: How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented
Humans are animals. This statement, although true, is unsettling for many people. Such discomfort reveals a deep ambivalence about how we see…
‘The Medium Is the Message’: Thoughts on the mass rescue of beagles from Ridglan Farms
'The medium is the message', as the great Marshall McLuhan put it. The forms that communication takes matter even more than the content it carries…
‘I Care’: Why vegan rights are the next frontier for animal advocacy
To protect vegans from discrimination, lawyers often have to fit ethical veganism into existing legal categories such as ‘creed’ or ‘freedom of…
Veganthropology: Defending vegan ethics against structural speciesism
Where 'anthropology' often operates within an implicit anthropocentric horizon, 'Veganthropology' proposes another point of departure: antispeciesism…
Animal rights activists released from jail after beagle open rescue break-in
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said 50 to 60 protesters illegally entered the Ridglan Farms facility, leading to 27 arrests. The last five people…
DOG DAY AFTERNOON: Animal rights activists storm dog breeding facility to rescue beagles
A massive surge of animal activists descended upon Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin, the nation’s second-largest beagle breeding and research facility, and…