ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

VICTORY: Vogue magazine publisher Condé Nast stops showing fur in all editorial and advertising

Condé Nast’s decision to stop featuring animal fur in its publications came after a nine-month campaign by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT). During this campaign, animal rights protestors picketed the houses of Vogue’s editors and demonstrated outside events the magazine organized in London and New York… Vogue magazine will no longer feature “new animal fur in editorial content or advertising,” according to updated guidelines on the website of its parent company, Condé Nast. The guidelines — which allow for “defined exceptions, including byproducts of subsistence and indigenous practices” — will also affect other titles owned by the […]

R.I.P. Jane Goodall: A look back at her incredible life

Jane Goodall, a British conservationist and animal rights activist who dedicated over 60 years of her life to studying chimpanzees, not only as a species, but also as individuals with emotions and long-term bonds, died at the age of 91. Goodall’s dedication to her work and the health of the planet even trickled down to her diet. “I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago when I looked at the pork chop on my plate and thought: this represents fear, pain, death,” she wrote in an essay in 2017. “That did it, and I went plant-based instantly”… The British animal […]

STUDY: How animal agriculture and hunting reshaped the animal world across the globe

After farming began about 10,000 years ago, just a handful of livestock species spread along with humans and scrambled natural boundaries forever. Examining archaeological records, the researchers found just 12 domesticated species — including cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, donkeys, goats, and some birds — fundamentally altered the composition of animal communities. Since domesticated farm animals monopolize food resources wherever they are in high numbers, many wild mammals went extinct… New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil bones from six […]