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Comprehensive Animal Rights

If you wanted to work to liberate both humans and nonhumans, how would you do it? You might promote diet-focused veganism as a way…March 15, 2022 · 12 min read Child holding a duck Animal Rights

One Big Move to Make Law Work for Animals, Humans Included

If animal suffering, death and extinction are any measure, the animal rights movement has largely failed. In almost every category, from increased demand for…December 23, 2021 · 4 min read Child holding a duck Animal Rights

Our Real Impact on Animals: Incalculable. Until now.

Human population growth is the greatest threat to animals across the globe. For World Population Day, we’re launching a campaign around our interactive Animal…July 11, 2021 · 1 min read A person with curly hair and glasses, wearing a brown jacket, leans down and looks closely at a white turkey outdoors near a wire fence. Animal Rights

Joyce Tischler: Protecting Animals Starts With A Better Population Policy

Joyce Tischler is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern animal law and a leader in the field of animal protection.…May 22, 2021 · 2 min read A woman with wavy hair carries a baby in a green sling on her back, standing on a muddy field and looking at cows grazing in the foggy distance. Animal Rights

One Reason Animal Rights Fail: We Willingly Create Animal Abusers

Focus in on almost all work done by those who hold themselves out as animal protectionists and you will see them focused on the…April 16, 2021 · 3 min read A young girl with pigtails rests her head on a womans shoulder, looking pensive. The woman is seen from behind, supporting the child in her arms in an indoor setting with a blurred background. Animal Rights

The Logic of Fair Start Policies and Animal Rights (Including Human Ones)

These are the facts, and they are not in dispute. 1) All reasonable people agree reforms are needed to respond to the climate crisis.…January 21, 2021 · 2 min read biodiversity day Animal Rights

The Animal Mortality Calculator: Knowledge for the Foundation of Animal Rights

How many other animals in total – farmed, wildlife, animals in research, etc. – die to support the current lifestyle of a human individual?…January 7, 2021 · 7 min read Photo by Oko Laa/BigStock; family planning and the environment; global gag rule Animal Rights

How the Animal Rights Movement Fails Animals

The voices of animal-rights advocates have become more prominent in social justice circles, and The New Republic magazine recently pondered whether animal rights is…November 27, 2020 · 3 min read A woman with long brown hair appears in two mugshot photos, one facing forward and one in profile. She is wearing a dark top and has an oxygen tube in her nose, against a gray cinderblock wall. Animal Rights

15 Kids and Animal Cruelty: No One’s Business?

Do you think family planning is not a community concern? Is it simply to be left to the would-be parents, and that it's nobody…July 15, 2019 · 2 min read

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