Animal Rights
Explores the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding animal rights, including activism, sentience, and the moral consideration animals deserve.
Granting Rights to Animals Doesn't Undermine Human Rights
In proposing the Species Membership Approach, Raffael Fasel argues against the misplaced fears that granting legal rights and personhood to nonhumans would weaken human rights.
Animal rights activists to protest at PB Trader Joe's Sunday afternoon
DxE accuses Petaluma Poultry, a subsidiary of poultry giant Perdue Foods, of extreme animal cruelty, including boiling birds alive.
Six Flags is being pressured to close elephant exhibit
Six Flags Great Adventure is urged to give up its elephants as animal rights group focuses on one elephant, Joyce, in a new PR campaign.
A German zoo faces a backlash after killing 12 healthy baboons
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg says it has killed 12 baboons despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group of the animals.
Could giving this pod of dolphins the same legal rights as humans help keep them safe?
With a bottlenose population threatened by fishing gear, boats and pollution, campaigners on South Korea’s Jeju island are lobbying to extend legal status to the vulnerable cetaceans.
Do Animal Rights Undermine Human Rights?
The proposal to grant rights to non-human animals has raised the question of whether such a step undermines human rights. A first approach claims that animal rights strengthen the protection of human…
An Animal Rights Activist Rescued Four Sick Chickens From a Slaughterhouse. Now She’s Facing Five Years in Prison.
How ‘open rescue’ prosecutions reveal larger systemic issues.
Granting Rights to Animals Doesn't Undermine Human Rights
In proposing the Species Membership Approach, Raffael Fasel argues against the misplaced fears that granting legal rights and personhood to nonhumans would weaken human rights.
Animal rights activists to protest at PB Trader Joe's Sunday afternoon
DxE accuses Petaluma Poultry, a subsidiary of poultry giant Perdue Foods, of extreme animal cruelty, including boiling birds alive.
Six Flags is being pressured to close elephant exhibit
Six Flags Great Adventure is urged to give up its elephants as animal rights group focuses on one elephant, Joyce, in a new PR campaign.
A German zoo faces a backlash after killing 12 healthy baboons
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg says it has killed 12 baboons despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group of the animals.
Could giving this pod of dolphins the same legal rights as humans help keep them safe?
With a bottlenose population threatened by fishing gear, boats and pollution, campaigners on South Korea’s Jeju island are lobbying to extend legal status to the vulnerable cetaceans.
Do Animal Rights Undermine Human Rights?
The proposal to grant rights to non-human animals has raised the question of whether such a step undermines human rights. A first approach claims that animal rights strengthen the protection of human…
An Animal Rights Activist Rescued Four Sick Chickens From a Slaughterhouse. Now She’s Facing Five Years in Prison.
How ‘open rescue’ prosecutions reveal larger systemic issues.
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