ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

Strategy vs. Principle: Has the Vegan Society changed the principle of ‘veganism’?

Academic and cultural commentators have long noted that as movements enter the mainstream, their expression often shifts from abstract principle toward clearer articulation of associated practices, even where the underlying ethical foundation remains unchanged. The modern definition of ‘veganism’ reflects this common pattern: principled positions articulated alongside their practical and societal consequences. We can be flexible in how we each communicate it — but never in what ‘veganism’ is at core. The principle endures, expressed through evolving strategies in a changing world. HELEN LOYD: The terms ‘veganism’ and ‘vegan’ are often discussed today more in reference to the downstream impacts […]

Roger Yates: The welfare grip is too tight for animal rights

Tom Regan, author in 1983 of the ground-breaking ‘The Case for Animal Rights’, was the prominent animal rights voice in a debate aired on BBCTV to an estimated audience of 1 million people. Most people in the modern animal movement have little or no idea who Tom Regan was, let alone how to make the case for animal rights. Instead, animal advocates seem to think that ‘animal rights’ involves pointing to graphic images and calling out the ‘cruelty’ and ‘abuse’ they portray. Look at the language of the vast majority of animal organizations or modern ‘vegan influencers.’ They are drenched […]

CAFT: Anti-fur protest campaign focused on Milan ‘Fashion Week’

For far too long, the runways of influential fashion weeks such as Milan have normalized the cruel fur industry, turning the suffering of millions of wild animals confined to tiny cages into trends driven by vanity and consumption…. Copenhagen, New York, and London Fashion Weeks have banned fur altogether, Milan risks falling behind by clinging to an outdated practice that the majority of the public no longer supports. CAFT: Just one month after successfully urging New York Fashion Week to go fur-free, the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) has launched an international protest campaign targeting Milan Fashion Week […]