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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced that USDA will begin a new process to address farmed animal welfare standards. It's long overdue.
Law & Justice•4 min read
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The study represents yet another attempt by Global Animal Partnership, one of the nation's largest animal welfare certifications, to pass off poor welfare conditions as the gold standard.
Policy•5 min read
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Can paying for an animal testing-free future make people feel better about getting vaccinated? Jessica Scott-Reid explores the novel new concept of animal testing offsets.
Animal Testing•5 min read
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A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. But his frantic effort to reduce his carbon footprint left his family exhausted and…
Climate•22 min read
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Factory farming is trying to clean up its act by turning methane emissions into biogas. But the promise of sustainability could be doing more harm than good.
Climate•7 min read
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Wasted food is a serious problem, especially in America where landfills are overflowing with rotting food. Among that waste, especially on the consumer front? Animals.
Food•7 min read
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The Humane Research and Testing Act of 2021 address the growing need to replace animals in research. The bill also calls for the acceptance of "valid and reliable" alternative testing…
Animal Testing•4 min read
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Justin Barker’s autobiographical coming-of-age story follows his fight to save two bears from a dismal existence at a zoo in Roseville, California.
Entertainment•3 min read
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A group of hackers temporarily shut down operations at JBS, the world's largest meat company, disrupting the U.S. beef supply and leaving us with more questions than answers.
Policy•3 min read
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At the UK's only slaughter-free dairy farm, calves are allowed to be with their mothers, and spent cows roam around in peace. Sound too good to be true? We took…
Food•5 min read
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In this exclusive interview, Justin Barker talks about what led him to publish his first book: the years of advocacy, personal awakenings, learning, teaching, and deep-seated passion for animal rights.
Entertainment•7 min read
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The new animal sentience bill could make progress for animals on several fronts. But the bill is vague in key respects, protecting some animals while leaving out others.
Law & Justice•7 min read
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Each time footage is released from pig farms, the industry manages to brush it off as an "isolated incident." But Dr. Alice Brough says these incidents are standard practice.
Policy•7 min read
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The U.S government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on wasteful cat experiments. When will we close this shameful chapter of American history? White Coat Waste Project investigates.
Animal Testing•4 min read
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A battle for the future of food is underway. The UN is facing heavy criticism over its corporate ties and lack of inclusivity ahead of the Food Systems Summit later…
Food•11 min read
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Speciesism is more than just an animal rights issue. The Deputy Leader of the UK's Animal Welfare Party, Jane Smith, explains why our understanding of social justice must evolve to…
Policy•5 min read
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Berkeley recently became the first city in California to urge the state's $444-billion pension fund to divest from the factory farming industry. Will San Francisco and Los Angeles follow suit?
Food•4 min read
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Mars gives us a chance to start over and leave many of Earth's worst practices behind. While it sounds far-fetched, life on the red planet will almost certainly be free…
Food•5 min read
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Sustainability is a conflicted term. Instead of asking how we can make the food system more sustainable, we should be asking, sustainable for whom?
Climate•7 min read
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Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., author of What a Fish Knows and Super Fly and co-star of the controversial new Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, shares his thoughts on the film.
Climate•1 min read
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The main problem lies in the similarities with conventional animal use: Humans are once again planning to create sentient beings so that we can exploit them for our own benefit.
Animal Testing•4 min read
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From academia to animal advocacy, white supremacy culture permeates liberal spaces. It’s time to turn reflection into action.
Encompass•12 min read
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Award-winning investigative photographer Amy Jones discusses her role in bridging the divide between humans and the emotional violence we inflict on farmed animals.
Policy•5 min read
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The pandemic and ongoing climate crisis have shown us that humans are no better for the survival of the planet than any other species. In many ways, they're worse.
Climate•7 min read
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If we want to build a healthier, greener, kinder, more sustainable future that gets us closer to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we must follow a new path.
Food•12 min read
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Most funders and leaders in the farmed animal advocacy movement are white. That needs to change.
Encompass•6 min read
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Before audiences had gotten a chance to see the new documentary, the fishing industry was already dismissing it as “vegan propaganda.” Remind us again who the propagandists are?
Climate•6 min read
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Fish farming was supposed to be the industry's saving grace, but instead of taking pressure off wild populations, it just caused more destruction. Would farming shellfish be more sustainable?
Aquaculture•6 min read
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Worldwide, roughly 70 billion animals are raised and slaughtered each year within the food system. Producing so many animals comes with a high price for us, for animals, and for…
Climate•11 min read
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While there are plenty of reasons not to eat animals, positive arguments for eating animals are, it seems, hard to come by. Is it taste, convenience, or ignorance that compels…
Diet•18 min read
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Big Meat—like Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma—is a ravenous machine of exploitation pursuing profits at almost any cost. It needs to be stopped.
Policy•5 min read
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Lobbyists and legislators can only do so much. Public support is what pushes for bills to become laws—and right now, support for animals is soaring.
Law & Justice•7 min read
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It’s taken me years, but I’m beginning to understand how a white supremacy culture has shaped my life and my advocacy, and how to change this narrative.
Encompass•17 min read
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We spoke with Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Urbina and investigators Lex Rigby and Pete Paxton about their experience documenting the commercial fishing industry.
Climate•2 min read
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Just as we all eat, we all get dressed, every single day. That's why fashion needs to be included more seriously in the scope of animal activism.
Policy•5 min read
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Commercial and cultural forces constantly work to deny the quality of sentience to non-human animals. Even when science clearly shows most animals are sentient, this denial is mainstream.
Science•7 min read
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Seas and oceans cover 71 percent of the world’s surface and provide diverse habitats for a variety of marine life. Protecting them is essential for the future of life on…
Climate•15 min read
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We caught up with Damien Mander, founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, to talk about how reliance on the meat industry is hindering our ability to protect wild places.
Podcast•23 min read
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Activists, disease specialists, and environmentalists are making the connection between the way we eat and the risk it poses to public health. Sometimes it feels like they're the only ones.
Health•4 min read
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Animal liberation won’t happen until Black, Brown, and Indigenous people have equity in the animal protection movement.
Encompass•9 min read
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COVID-19 has revealed the deep interconnectedness of our planet, where an outbreak in China can lead to curfews in California.
Health•7 min read
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Even when animal protections are strong, millions of sentient beings suffer. Clément Martz takes us to the heart of the problem, exposing conditions at "high welfare" facilities during COVID-19.
Food•6 min read
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Sentient Media sat down with Jian Yi, founder of the Good Food Fund, a Chinese food sustainability and health NGO that promotes a plant-based diet.
Food•30 min read
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The ditch dairy argument can be a tough pill to swallow. This is not meant to shame anyone, simply to share my story of why I chose to stop consuming…
Food•9 min read
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Seeing racism in myself was the first step to confronting it in the animal advocacy movement—and in the system we’re working to change.
Encompass•15 min read
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Jim Mellon's new book, Moo's Law, helps readers understand the quickly evolving investment landscape in cultivated and plant-based proteins.
Science•1 min read
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When someone is dehumanized or "treated like an animal," they become easier to oppress. Meatpacking workers know this better than most.
Policy•4 min read
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Prior to going undercover on factory farms, Erin Wing had witnessed and experienced all kinds of violence. It was one of the reasons she knew she would be well-suited for…
Policy•4 min read
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If the profession continues to turn a blind eye to the suffering of factory-farmed animals, "the public will wonder if they can trust veterinarians anymore."
Policy•11 min read
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If you see an animal in need, the unwritten rule is: don’t call the cops. Instead, rescuers rely on a community of caregivers and activists to help find these animals…
Policy•5 min read
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