ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

INJUSTICE FOR ALL: Animal rights activist found guilty in ‘chicken rescue’ trial

Zoe Rosenberg’s defense team is expected to appeal her conviction. As part of the defense team’s expected appeal, they plan to ask the court to allow the “necessity defense”. The big question is whether Rosenberg’s conviction will galvanize DxE’s “Open Rescue” cause. As she stated after the verdict: “A lot of times, we see the most mobilization in movements during moments of loss, in moments when people have been arrested or sentenced to serve time in jail. As a movement, we will similarly come back stronger in this moment.” On Wednesday afternoon, October 29, after about 3½ hours of deliberation, […]

ENGINEERING FREEDOM: Why technology is the only way to liberate animals

The inventors of cars did not set out to end animal suffering, they wanted faster transport. The welfare of horses was an unintended byproduct of human innovation. The motorcar arguably did more to free animals from suffering than the RSPCA ever has. Today, the RSPCA’s “Assured” label serves mainly to legitimize industrial farming – offering moral comfort while sanctioning mass confinement and slaughter. The true liberation of animals will not come from moral reassurance but from technological transformation. Cultivated meat is perhaps the first major technology in history that intends to liberate animals – to decouple prosperity from cruelty and […]

LICENSE TO KILL: The fate of Marineland’s beluga whales expose the ethical cracks in Canadian animal law

Marineland has a deteriorating facility and expensive care on its hands for animals it can no longer use to turn a profit. The threat to kill the belugas as a solution to its economic woes, while shocking, reflects the ethical emptiness of the Canadian legal system when it comes to animals. Simply put, Canadian law still allows human and corporate owners to kill their animals because animals are legally treated as “property.” The belugas and other animals at Marineland deserve to live. A legal system that allows them to be killed because it is economically convenient is one that needs […]