NEVERMORE: No more live animals will be shot in U.S. military ‘trauma training’ drills
NEVERMORE: No more live animals will be shot in U.S. military ‘trauma training’ drills
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that sets military policy, includes a ban on the use of live animals in live-fire trauma training drills across all military branches. For years, the U.S. military conducted so-called “wound labs,” during which conscious or semiconscious dogs and other animals were suspended from slings and shot with high-powered weapons to inflict injuries for crude medical training drills. The military also cut-off the limbs of live goats with tree trimmers, stabbed live pigs, and pulled out their internal organs. The bill’s passage gives all U.S. military branches their marching orders: No animal […]
‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
‘SOLIDARITY’ CONFINEMENT: Jailed animal rights activist being kept in cell 23 hours a day
Jailed animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg is being kept in solitary confinement. In exchange for keeping equipment needed as a result of her diabetes, she is kept apart from other inmates. ‘It’s a few days into my jail sentence’, Rosenberg wrote from jail this week, ‘I spend nearly 23 hours a day in a small cell, almost entirely in isolation. When I get to briefly leave, I enter a common area by myself’. A jury found Rosenberg guilty of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for taking four abused chickens from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is serving 30 days in […]
‘The Omnivore’s Deception’: John Sanbonmatsu thinks you’re lying to yourself about food
‘The Omnivore’s Deception’: John Sanbonmatsu thinks you’re lying to yourself about food
We often hear questions of animal rights or the meat economy reduced to ‘sustainability’ discourse, which is already the wrong starting point. No one wants to confront the fundamental issue, which is, first, a relation of domination. We see ourselves as the superior being who has a right, really a political right, to subordinate, exploit, and kill every other species. And secondly, and relatedly, the mass violence that is the underpinning of the thing. People who are otherwise nice, decent people are on board with a system of essentially universal genocide. Now that’s an analogy. We don’t have a word […]
