‘I Care’: Why vegan rights are the next frontier for animal advocacy
‘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 conscience’. In Ontario, Canada, the Human Rights Code prevents discrimination based on creed in employment, housing, and services. Historically, this meant religion, but modern guidance now includes secular belief systems. Whether it is a firefighter in Ontario or a child and their family in a Danish daycare, the right to live compassionately and free from animal exploitation is a principle worth defending across jurisdictions. ICARE: ICARE’s fifth seminar on ‘Litigating and Legislating for Animal Rights‘, shifted the focus […]
Veganthropology: Defending vegan ethics against structural speciesism
Veganthropology: Defending vegan ethics against structural speciesism
Where ‘anthropology’ often operates within an implicit anthropocentric horizon, ‘Veganthropology’ proposes another point of departure: antispeciesism and non exploitation become ethical framework and method, so nonhuman animals enter the scene as subjects of moral concern. Its central analytical target is animal thingification, the institutional, practical, and discursive production of exploitable lives, commodification, and moral distance. COREY WRENN: In late 2025, Annibal Gouvêa Franco and Ronaldo Guimarães Gouvêa published a founding manifesto. In 2026, they expanded it in English as “Manifesto for Veganthropology (Vegan Anthropology)”, presenting Veganthropology as a normative descriptive, interspecies approach transversal to Sociocultural Anthropology… The manifesto spatializes vegan […]
Animal rights activists released from jail after beagle open rescue break-in
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 arrested in connection to the break-in and removal of dogs from Ridglan Farms were released from the Dane County Jail on Tuesday. The people released were greeted by fellow animal activists and together marched to the Dane County Courthouse, calling on the district attorney to take action against Ridglan Farms, the medical research beagle breeder. WMTV NEWS: The last five people arrested in connection to the break-in and removal of dogs from Ridglan Farms were […]
