The Great Irony of Animal “Rights”

The great irony of the animal rights movement is there is still only one species that has any rights at all: humans. But the Nonhuman Rights Project is setting out to change that.

Why We Can’t Think Straight About Animals

Psychologist Hal Herzog explores the moral confusions and contradictions in our relationships with our fellow animals (not to mention with each other!).

Thinking about Death Leads People to Support Killing Animals

A new study shows that any small reminder – even quite unconscious – of our inevitable mortality causes us to be more supportive of the killing of nonhuman animals

Love Dogs but Eat Pigs? It’s a Paradox

One of his friends calls herself a vegetarian even though she eats fish and chicken. “Well,” she says, “I don’t eat anything with a face.”

What Zoos Tell Us About Ourselves

“When one person is in a cage and someone else is outside the cage, walking up and down and looking at that person, what do you think that suggests about our power relations?”

King Oedipus and the End of the World

What does a piece of Ancient Greek tragedy have to do with our screwed-up relationship to our fellow animals? Quite a lot, in fact!

Cave Paintings and Our Relationship with Other Animals

30,000 years ago, deep in a cave in France, artists painted some of the greatest portrayals of animals ever. In this video we look at what they tell us about our relaitonship to our fellow animals

Why We Tell Ourselves We’re Not Really Animals – Video

Second in a new series: We humans have a constant sense of anxiety over our mortal, animal nature. And we deal with this by telling ourselves that we’re not really animals – despite all the evidence to the contrary.

How We Go About Insisting We’re Not Animals – Video

In this first video of a new series, we look at our deep need as humans to insist that we’re not animals – despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Some Sunlight for Chickens

Perdue Foods, announces new “humane” policies, like having windows in at least some of its chicken factory barns. Wow … windows!

Election 2016 and the End of a World Age

Thomas Berry writes about the real choices we face this year and the Great Work upon which we should be embarking.

Why the Animal Rights Movement Is Still a Contradiction in Terms

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 that so far…

How the Faith-Based Community Can Help the Animals

Thoughts for St. Francis Day. On Capitol Hill in 2007, Christopher Shays – who was then co-Chair of the Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus – spoke of the need for the faith-based community to play its part in the work of animal protection. These are his remarks.

U.K. to Ban Wild Animals in Circuses

With public opinion solidly behind no longer having wild animals in circuses, Britain’s Conservative government has caved to the pressure and agreed to a complete ban.

Natalie Portman to Make Vegan Movie

Natalie Portman is one of the few celebrity actors who embrace the animal protection world as a passionate cause (rather than as part hobby, part self-promotion).

James Cromwell: They’re Not Pets and I Don’t Own Them

Actor James Cromwell is about as passionate for animals as it gets. Ten years ago, he was even arrested during an animal rights protest in Fairfax, Virginia, at a Wendy’s and then ordered to stay out of all Wendy’s restaurants in Fairfax County Virginia unless he intends to eat there … which, one would imagine, he has no intention of doing.

Matt Damon at Mexico Bullfight

He’s a mega-star known for his charity work. But it doesn’t extend to nonhumans. Matt Damon was spotted in the crowd at a bull fight in Mexico City yesterday.

Cooking Up ‘Real’ Meat Without Animals

It’s the holy grail of animal protection and one of the key ways to protect the planet: cultured meat, grown in laboratories from cultured animal cells. And it’s coming closer.

Why It’s ‘Manly’ to Shoot Birds

John Kerry made a last ditch stand to gain more votes in his presidential campaign by donning camo gear and heading out to shoot small animals. This, his campaign managers, believed, would make him seem like more of a leader.