ASPCA Head Joins Pet Breeding Industry
Ed Sayres, the former President of the ASPCA, has accepted an invitation from the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), the lobbying arm of the pet…
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Westminster Porn Show
One of the world's few remaining pageants of objectification and commoditization.
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The ‘Animal Rights’ Paradox
How's the animal rights movement doing? If you rate it by the simple question "How many animals have rights?" you'd have to say "Not very well." Call it the animal rights paradox.
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At Sundance, a Triumph for "Unlocking the Cage"
Premiered at Sundance, the movie follows attorney Steven M. Wise as he argues to a high court judges that chimpanzee Tommy has the capacity for legal rights and should be set free…
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Pigs: Smart & Machiavellian
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that, of course, is hardly how we treat them…
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Half the World’s Wildlife Destroyed in the Last 40 Years
In a sane world, it would be headline news. Everything else would immediately come to a screeching halt to make way for a massive, worldwide attempt to turn things around. (Of…
The Whale Who Took Down SeaWorld
Egg Industry Concession Is No ‘Victory’
For Chimps, the End of Vivisection, Almost
Cecil Is the Least of It
Hoofin’ It Up with the Humane Society
As some 90 diners trekked around four restaurants in Denver this week, Angela Huffman of the Humane Society of the United States, which is sponsoring the…
SeaWorld Stock Officially in the Tank
When SeaWorld’s stock took a dive earlier this year, the company claimed that the weather and the timing of Easter were to blame for the drop…
In Israel-Gaza War, Animals Pay Price
A donkey suicide bomb and a farmyard massacre – two examples of how nonhuman animals have become targets in the current war between Israelis and Palestinians.…
Nonhuman Rights Project on ‘Colbert Report’
Legal rights for animals?? Expect Stephen Colbert to be suitably shocked, horrified and appalled when, in character as the classic right-wing bloviator, he welcomes Steven…
Happy Birthday, Daphne Sheldrick
The original photo bomb? A baby elephant joins Daphne Sheldrick for tea in the early days of the Elephant Orphanage. At the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage…
SeaWorld Becomes a Laughing Stock
You know your company is in trouble when everyone starts laughing at you. That’s what’s happening to SeaWorld now that the activists have been joined by…
Chimpanzee Personalities Almost Identical to Humans
A new study of captive chimpanzees concludes that the personality traits of chimpanzees are almost identical to those of humans. I asked psychologist Sam Gosling of…
Of Mice and Men – and Women
If you were a mouse in a laboratory, who would you rather have experimenting on you: a man or a woman? Turns out that if it’s…
Chatting with Charles Siebert
Charles Siebert’s New York Times story about the Nonhuman Rights Project has stirred lots of interest around the country in last few days. Among other scoops,…
Unlocking the Cage
For the last two years, Academy Award-winning movie maker D.A. Pennebaker and Oscar nominee Chris Hegedus have been following the work of Steven M. Wise and…
Q & A with Steven M. Wise
Steven M. Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project President, answers some of the questions we’ve been receiving in the wake of the cover story in the New York Times magazine.
First: “Why can’t a humane society or local authorities just go in and rescue those poor chimpanzees?”
Our First Plaintiff
Our plaintiff did not walk into our office; he couldn’t. When we last saw him, he was being held captive in solitary confinement in a small, dank, cement cage in a dark shed in temperatures 40 degrees below his native land.
New York Times Mag on Chimp Rights
Renowned author and journalist Charles Siebert writes about the Nonhuman Rights Project for this week’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. Siebert accompanies attorney…
The Great Irony in Showtime’s Climate Show
There’s a terrible irony right there in the opening sequence of the first episode of the new Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously. Nelly Montez describes…
Surprise: Elephants Are Really Intelligent (Really!)
Why are we humans always surprised to learn that other animals (aka “animals”) are “also” intelligent? Perhaps it’s because we’re not so bright ourselves when it…
Are You an Extremist?
The nation’s largest coalition of vivisectionists has a new publication advising people who experiment on animals how best to combat the people it calls “animal rights…
Elephant Destroys House, Rescues Baby
On Monday night in India, an angry elephant walked into the village of Olgara from the forest and smashed a house to pieces. This kind of…
In Carriage Horse Fight, Who’s Most Contemptible?
When actor Liam Neeson goes on The Tonight Show to promote the carriage horse industry (along with his latest dumb movie) … … and Jimmy Fallon…
A Teenager’s Question about Mass Extinction
At the end of her talk at the Seattle Town Hall about her book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert takes questions from the audience. The final…