Our perception of animal welfare as a nation of animal lovers is out of step with policy and law that still allows differential animal treatment.
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The threat to kill the belugas as a solution to its economic woes, while shocking, reflects the ethical emptiness of the Canadian legal system when it comes to animals.
Just like any other animal, horses feel pain, which is why more needs to be done to minimise the use of whips.
Given the proven link between people who commit animal abuse and human abuse, therapists who hear about violence to animals should be allowed to report it.
The native people of South Africa revered baboons, but they became part of occult beliefs and suburban fears.
Peter Singer’s slim volume is designed to educate us about how turkeys treated, and it doesn’t make for pleasant reading.
Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad’s harrowing footage pulls no punches in its depiction of Spain’s revered bullfighting tradition.
Victims of intimate partner violence regularly cite fear for the safety of their pet as a primary reason they do not leave an abusive situation.
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.
Humans wield great power with what they choose to eat. Here’s how to use that power for good on Christmas day.
South Africa’s legal commercial lion industry is helping to act as a cover for the illegal international big cat bone trade.
This war has powerfully and painfully magnified the connections among human and animal lives, and our unrelenting commitment to love in the face of darkness.
New research shows gambling participation in Australia is dropping.
The Singapore Food Agency has approved US food company Eat Just’s cultured ‘chicken bites’ for sale.
We enjoy and appreciate animals and are disturbed by violence against them. But we also perpetrate this violence, and that needs to change.
The hazards are both psychological and physical.
Shareable online images of chimpanzees, elephants and other animals are threatening their conservation and welfare.
The way of life primates have evolved to live cannot be replicated in a human home.
Understanding happiness in chickens could tell us how to improve their housing.
As the field of animal law continues growing, so does public awareness of the problems with inconsistent ways that Canadian law protects some animals, while leaving others behind.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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 Science Communication, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Animal Law, Macquarie University
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Public Relations Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator in the Media Department, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia
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PhD Candidate in Anthrozoology, University of Exeter
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Professor of Animal Organization Studies, University of York
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Professor of Organization and Business Ethics, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer in Criminology and Miscarriages of Justice, Aberystwyth University
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Independent researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Macquarie University
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Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark