It’s important to design public awareness campaigns that illuminate the richness of animal lives by directing attention to actual animal agency rather than to the human abusers of animals.
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How we treat other animals is important for us, for them, and for the entire planet.
What makes us human? Greek and Roman thinkers were preoccupied with this question. And some of their observations of animals foreshadowed recent findings in the behavioural sciences.
Humans wield great power with what they choose to eat. Here’s how to use that power for good on Christmas day.
We already have many of the tools to make this imagined world a reality.
A few marine mammals in apparent revolt pushed meme-makers into overdrive. But a scholar who thinks about justice and human-animal relations suggests something deeper is behind the schadenfreude.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation opened our eyes to the exploitation of animals. At a time of ‘ag-gag’ laws and ‘skyscraper’ farms, a new edition assesses the state of animal rights today.
People moved by the plight of the animals in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ should channel their emotions into meaningful action for real animals.
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.
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.
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College, Western University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Associate Professor of Communication, Georgia State University
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Theory, University of Sheffield
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Research officer, Macquarie University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of Sydney
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