ENGINEERING FREEDOM: Why technology is the only way to liberate animals
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
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 […]
WHY-DUNIT: She took sick chickens from a slaughterhouse; was it a rescue or a crime?
WHY-DUNIT: She took sick chickens from a slaughterhouse; was it a rescue or a crime?
Over the years, animal rights groups have gained a reputation for using confrontational tactics – such as PETAs campaign comparing meat consumption to the Holocaust. The logic is simple: it takes shock to jolt people out of complacency about animal suffering. DxE follows in this tradition; the group’s signature move has been “open rescues”, granting people criminal and civil protection if they forcibly enter a facility to remove an endangered animal. From the activists’ perspective, one virtue of the tactic is that it does not just call attention to an injustice – it attempts, in a small way, to correct […]
