‘Free Luna’: An animal rights activist’s journey living inside a farrowing cage
‘Free Luna’: An animal rights activist’s journey living inside a farrowing cage
The documentary ‘Free Luna’ follows animal activist Michelle during her three-week, 24/7 protest inside a farrowing cage outside the National Gallery in London, highlighting the conditions endured by pigs such as Luna. Filmed during both the day and night, the documentary captures the atmosphere and ambience around Trafalgar Square, what Michelle had to enjoy and endure throughout the protest, and the many people who stop to speak with and support her. Luna remains confined in a shed at the farm. ANIMAL RISING: Luna is a young mother pig living on a British farm. She has already given birth to two litters […]
The Purity Test That Hurts Animals: When veganism turns into ideology
The Purity Test That Hurts Animals: When veganism turns into ideology
When a guardian demands that a cat eat plants to satisfy a human standard of purity, the animal stop being recognised as a distinct, respected creature. Instead, it becomes a ‘little human in a fur coat’, tolerated only insofar as it mirrors the guardian’s personal values. True anti-speciesism demands that we accept non-human animals in their full biological integrity, rather than making our protection conditional on whether their evolutionary nature fits our moral aesthetic. This double standard exposes a deep flaw in dogmatic thinking. ROSIE TRENTA: Two social media posts in as many days exposed a profound moral derailment at the […]
Wild Flourishing: Should animals have territorial rights?
Wild Flourishing: Should animals have territorial rights?
U.S. state governments and governments around the world routinely treat nonhuman animals as resources to be counted, managed, controlled, and, when deemed convenient, killed. Terms such as ‘ecosystem integrity,’ and even ‘biodiversity’ frequently obscure that animals are individuals and members of social communities with relationships, knowledge, traditions, and homes of their own. Yet policymakers continue to permit killing animals for recreational purposes through hunting. They fail to build enough wildlife crossings and allow development to fragment, and sometimes even destroy, the territories on which wild animal peoples depend. MARC BEKOFF: Philosophers, legal scholars, and people interested in the growing, diverse field […]
