animal-rights

Published on July 29, 2026 10:38 PM GMT We surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults to see how they react to three different terms for animal agriculture, and the results might change how you talk about this issue. “Animal factory” sparked a negative reaction in 79% of people who saw it, with strong connections to confinement, slaughter, cruelty, and unsanitary conditions. Read Here Background “ Factory farmin…

Published on July 20, 2026 2:22 PM GMT Electric sheep, obsolete animals, and the moral danger of valuing life only through utility By Rufaro Daniel Nyakudya Imagine that the last industrial slaughterhouse does not close because of a protest, a new law, or a sudden wave of human compassion. It closes because it is no longer competitive. The supermarket shelves remain full. Burgers still sizzle on …

New restrictions will prohibit veterinarians from declawing cats, cropping dogs’ ears, and devocalizing dogs.

Published on June 26, 2026 2:30 PM GMT This is an original post, I used an LLM for grammatical edits. Hello, I am a member of the Animal Rights Collective of Chicago. Our group has successfully persuaded multiple local businesses to stop selling fur, and we have participated in broader campaigns that have resulted in fur-free and foie gras–free policies. I am currently one of three activists bein…

Published on June 9, 2026 2:53 PM GMT In Rethink Priorities' (2021-2022) Moral Weights Project, they attempted to  compare the welfare ranges of different farmed animals (which basically means comparing how many suffering shrimp are equal to one suffering chicken.) This project is the most comprehensive attempt at doing inter-species welfare comparisons to date, and it makes a very valuable contr…

Of all the hot-button social issues in America, there’s one that often flies under the radar but can unleash a torrent of strong feelings — swirling with apparent contradictions — when it surfaces: meat.  Case in point: Last month, the popstar Billie Eilish argued that you can’t say you love animals and eat them. Her […]

Rohan Srivastava, Guest Faculty, Madhusudan Law University, Cuttack, Odisha Research Scholar, KIIT School of Law, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneshwar ABSTRACT This research paper examines the evolving discourse on animal cruelty in India through the lens of a gradual shift from a welfare-based approach to a rights-oriented framework. Traditionally, Indian law has treated animals under a we…

It’s exceptionally rare that the tiny, perpetually marginal, and politically outmatched animal rights movement manages to capture national attention. A lack of attention is that movement’s core problem and central organizing question. How can it convince the public to make space in their minds for something they’d really, really prefer not to: the industrialized torture […]

Manjula. G, LLB, VELS Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies L. Keerthana, Assistant Professor, School of Law, VISTAS ABSTRACT Human–animal co-existence in India reflects the complex intersection between law, ethics, and ecology. With rapid urbanization and increasing human population density, conflict between humans and community animals—particularly dogs and cattle—has intensified…

Published on April 24, 2026 6:37 AM GMT People v. Hsiung demonstrates our judicial system's reluctance to grapple with industrial animal agriculture. “Counsel, is it true that 800,000 hens reside on this farm?” 1 Justice Jackson of the California Court of Appeal began today’s oral argument with this very question. The case before her is People v. Hsiung —an appeal of Wayne Hsiung’s conviction for…

Muskan Sangwan, Queen Mary University of London ABSTRACT This paper examines the ethical and legal tensions in using animals in film and television, pitting creative demands against welfare imperatives. It critiques historical exploitation, like the deaths in Ben-Hur (1925), current U.S. AHA certifications' flaws, and EU Directive 2010/63/EU inconsistencies, drawing on utilitarian, rights-based, …

Outside the rural town of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, about 2,000 dogs await their fate in small wire cages. They are confined at Ridglan Farms, a large-scale breeding operation that supplies beagles for research labs across the country. The current law treats the dogs as property of the company. We and others suggest that the conditions of their confinement have been so bad that their own legal righ…

This month’s guest blog post comes from dog lover and pet care enthusiast Olivia Williams. Olivia describes the shocking reality of the dog meat trade… In certain parts of the world, man’s best friend can actually end up on the plates of a starving family or even a group of people having The post Ugly Truth Behind the Dog Meat Trade appeared first on Kate on Conservation .