The recent death of a horse on the set of the Amazon series is the latest incident raising questions about how humans use horses for entertainment and sport.
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Indigenous views and ways of knowing should be applied to the way we keep, use, and kill animals, and in how we teach future generations about animal use and their care.
Guidelines and regulations weigh the medical and health benefits of animal research with researchers’ ability to ensure humane care of their subjects from start to finish.
The public’s lack of knowledge about animal research can cause a moral conflict. Institutions that use animals in research need to be more transparent about their practices.
Whether to protect humans or out of mercy for the animal, decisions to kill wildlife aren’t taken lightly.
Courts already grapple with the consequences of AI sentience but ignore the same for animals.
Explicitly intended for a broad, educated audience, Guilty Pigs is an accessible work that reveals there is almost no aspect of the law that does not touch on the lives of nonhuman animals.
This war has powerfully and painfully magnified the connections among human and animal lives, and our unrelenting commitment to love in the face of darkness.
Andrea Arnold’s new film chronicles the daily strife of Luma – a dairy cow and mother.
The plan to criminalise pet theft is more about pet owners’ wellbeing than for the animals themselves.
Boats and companies have been treated as legal persons in the past. Why not an alpaca?
Proposed legislation would required the government to consider how all of its policies affect animal welfare.
Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.
There is no clear evidence that new regulations intended to crack down on ‘illegal behaviour’ are even needed. Most not-for-profit organisations are law-abiding and heavily regulated.
This story is not graphic, but what happens to slaughter-bound horses is, and it’s time for change.
Video game ‘amoralists’ argue killing in gaming isn’t harmful since no living being is actually hurt. But when it comes to hurting virtual animals, we disagree.
We enjoy and appreciate animals and are disturbed by violence against them. But we also perpetrate this violence, and that needs to change.
Illegal hunters are damaging farm property, shooting at buildings and killing livestock. So why do farm trespass laws target animal activists?
Animal suffering not only harms other species, it endangers our own. Here’s how we can do better.
Leather isn’t just a by-product of the meat industry, and raises serious moral questions for anyone who cares about animal rights.
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