Kevin Johnson: ‘I released 2,000 minks from a fur farm. Now I’m a convicted terrorist’
KEVIN JOHNSON: ‘People usually laugh when I tell them I am a convicted terrorist. I try not to open with that – it seems a little bit forward. First,…
Utah to pay animal welfare groups $349,000 to settle ‘ag-gag’ lawsuit
TIFFANY CALDWELL: ‘The Utah Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay animal welfare groups $349,000 to settle a lawsuit over the state’s “ag-gag”…
Yale scientist defends research on birds after PETA protests
ED STANNARD: ‘Christine Lattin, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, studies how wild house sparrows react to stress. Her work involves scanning…
Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons
JACOB J. ERICKSON: ‘My attention turns these days more to those cases of insects… When you consider how little and mystified our knowledge of the…
Pythagoras, the philosophical source of vegans
THE SHERBROOKE TIMES: ‘Veganism… Is it a simple diet popular for hipstero-green-bobos? A new fashion and transient?… The past, especially classical…
The Radical Compassion of St. Francis
V.R. MARYANNE ZHAN: ‘There are those who say compassion for animals is nice, but we ought to have compassion on our fellow humans first… Just looking…
Professor of ‘theology of animals’ dogged in her beliefs
LORETTA FULTON: ‘The turning point for Susan Pigott came one night when she was stewing a chicken for her favorite dish, chicken tetrazzini. A…
The man who risks his life to rescue zoo animals from war zones
SALLY WILLIAMS: ‘On 11 April, a flight landed carrying a bear called Lula and a lion called Simba, the only two surviving animals from Mosul zoo in…
British vegan activists clash with police after hundreds of turkeys escape trailer
HARRIET PAVEY: ‘Hundreds of turkeys escaped when their transportation trailer overturned near the M5, sparking clashes between animal rights activists…
How Much Are Dogs Influenced by Local Culture?
JULIE HECHT: ‘Dogs in Budapest, Vienna and Lincoln participated in four tests: a Human Point-Following Test, a Problem-Solving Test, a Means-End Test…