STUDY: Naturalized Rights of Animals, Animalized Rights of Nature
STUDY: Naturalized Rights of Animals, Animalized Rights of Nature
The ‘Rights of Nature’ movement is growing quickly worldwide, while animal rights is advancing at a much slower pace. Animals are part of nature — in any commonsense definition of nature and also according to a number of courts around the world. This offers a new path for advancing animal rights. MACARENA MONTES FRANCESCHINI: In this Article, the authors argue that animal rights and rights of nature can and should find synergistic connections to tackle some of the most significant planetary threats today, notably, industrial animal agriculture. Until a landmark 2022 decision of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, no court […]
‘How to Make Drugs’: New controversial documentary film about animal testing set for release
‘How to Make Drugs’: New controversial documentary film about animal testing set for release
HOW TO MAKE DRUGS and feel great about everything, is a new feature documentary from Keegan Kuhn, co-producer/co-director of the hit films on Netflix; Cowspiracy and What The Health, with director Journey Zephyr (co-director of MEAT ME HALFWAY), investigates the process of drug development in the US, uncovering the wasteful, dangerous and the often absurd use of animal testing in the 21st century. Through interviews with premier researchers, physicians, policy experts, lobbyists and activists, a story unravels of unchecked government spending, entrenched culture and faulty science costing taxpayers billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives each year. KEEGAN […]
A Rock-Solid Case: Why all progressives must be vegan
A Rock-Solid Case: Why all progressives must be vegan
In every sphere that matters to progressives — justice, equity, sustainability, health, and non-violence — animal agriculture is one of the world’s most destructive forces, devastating human and animal lives. True commitment to these values demands embracing veganism. This isn’t a lofty ideal — it’s the very least we can do. Anything less is utterly inconsistent with progressive values, betraying them beyond recognition. PALA NAJANA: Progressive politics is founded on challenging oppression and injustice. If we ask others to face uncomfortable truths, we must be willing to do the same… The stakes are high: in every sphere that matters to […]
