Pignorant
An ex-gang member’s love for pigs spurs him on a life-risking mission to uncover the truth behind bacon – exposing widespread deception in a country that claims to have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world.
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
Scientists have known insects experience something like pain, but new research provides compelling evidence suggesting that insects also experience chronic pain that lasts long after an initial injury has healed.
What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness
How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal phylogenetic tree. Here we propose that at least one invertebrate clade, the insects, has a capacity for the most basic aspect of consciousness: subjective experience.
Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists
Insect populations are suffering ‘death by a thousand cuts’, with many falling at ‘frightening’ rates that are ‘tearing apart the tapestry of life’, according to scientists behind a new volume of studies.
The Most Dangerous Single Source of Ocean Plastic No One Wants to Talk About
Did you give up eating fish for ‘Plastic Free July’? Chances are you probably didn’t, because no one told you the truth about where most of the plastic in our oceans comes from, and how our meal choices have contributed to it.
Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss
This paper explores the role of the global food system as the principal driver of accelerating biodiversity loss. It explains how food production is degrading or destroying natural habitats and contributing to species extinction. The paper outlines the challenges and trade-offs involved in redesigning food systems to restore biodiversity and/or prevent further biodiversity loss, and presents recommendations for action.
Animal Rights Activism Guide: How to Be Effective
Vegan lifestyles undeniably keep a great many animals from harm. But the number of animals you can save by changing your diet pales in comparison to what is achievable through advocacy. You can save hundreds of times more animals through animal rights activism or vegan advocacy than you can save by merely being vegan.
Speciesism Philosophy
Speciesism, in applied ethics and the philosophy of animal rights, the practice of treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species; also, the belief that this practice is justified.
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. It raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: What effect does eating animals have on our land, waters, even global warming?
Sharks at unprecedented risk of extinction after 71 per cent decline
Numbers of oceanic sharks and rays have declined at what researchers describe as an “alarming” 71 per cent over almost half a century, leading to what researchers say is an unprecedented increase in risk of extinction.
Conservationists have been warning for years about the unsustainable killing of the apex predators, based on regional reports and data on individual species, but a paper published today is the first to offer an authoritative global overview.