‘The Medium Is the Message’: Thoughts on the mass rescue of beagles from Ridglan Farms
‘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 because form changes how people think, feel, and pay attention. The message, in the Ridglan beagle rescue case, is that these dogs have intrinsically valuable lives worth living and worth sacrificing for. That humans can at any moment stop looking away from our atrocities against other animals and choose to intervene. An obviously different message than the one sent by haggling with corporations over a few inches of extra cage space — not that that […]
‘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 […]
