Violence toward animals and people often occur together. Understanding these connections can improve safety and outcomes for both.
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Although some laws now recognize animals as sentient beings, they’re still treated as property. This contradiction is a societal choice. Has the time come to challenge it?
Whether capturing them on film, containing them in amusement parks, or subjecting them to scientific experiments, our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to capture them out of the ocean.
The actor, singer, fashion icon and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at 91.
As trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales, hunt saboteurs and police officers discuss their ‘unlikely alliance’ in monitoring fox hunts.
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
Peter Singer’s slim volume is designed to educate us about how turkeys treated, and it doesn’t make for pleasant reading.
Science from a four-paw perspective can help us reconsider our everyday interactions with dogs and influence positive changes so we can live well, together.
If left unchecked, artificial intelligence will harm animals. Experts in law, ethics and animal welfare call for AI to be included in the revised Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, coming soon.
A controversy involving one of the world’s best dressage riders highlights the need for more protection of horses in equestrian sports.
Australia’s live export trade is controversial. Have you ever wondered how it perpetuates? New research shows it comes down to corporate power dynamics. Similar forces operate in Brazil and the US.
It’s important to design public awareness campaigns that illuminate the richness of animal lives by directing attention to actual animal agency rather than to the human abusers of animals.
How we treat other animals is important for us, for them, and for the entire planet.
What makes us human? Greek and Roman thinkers were preoccupied with this question. And some of their observations of animals foreshadowed recent findings in the behavioural sciences.
Humans wield great power with what they choose to eat. Here’s how to use that power for good on Christmas day.
We already have many of the tools to make this imagined world a reality.
A few marine mammals in apparent revolt pushed meme-makers into overdrive. But a scholar who thinks about justice and human-animal relations suggests something deeper is behind the schadenfreude.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation opened our eyes to the exploitation of animals. At a time of ‘ag-gag’ laws and ‘skyscraper’ farms, a new edition assesses the state of animal rights today.
People moved by the plight of the animals in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ should channel their emotions into meaningful action for real animals.
The recent death of a horse on the set of the Amazon series is the latest incident raising questions about how humans use horses for entertainment and sport.
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics; Deputy Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organization and Business Ethics, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mitochondrial Biology and Metabolism, University of Padua
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Chair professor, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of Communication, Georgia State University
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Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Veterinarian, James Cook University
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement, University of East Anglia
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PhD in urban planning, The University of Melbourne