This blog explores how animals are exploited for products, the scale of this global issue, the ethical and environmental costs, and how society can move toward humane alternatives. Animal exploitation ...

Social justice events are excellent venues to bring awareness to meaningful causes, raise money and connect with like-minded individuals. I’ve attended quite a few, and I always revel in the strong ...

For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure —  specifically what they suggest is ...

A few months ago, I learned about the important work of artist Colleen Plumb in an outstanding essay by Julia Cooke called "Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?" I was intrigued ...

A short comment upon a proposed re-working of Marx's value theory to include non-humans, arguing against the notion of animal exploitation as understood in Marx's sense. Submitted by Railyon on August ...

The other day I rewatched Howard Hawk’s classic 1938 romantic comedy, Bringing Up Baby, for the first time in what was probably decades. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star as an eccentric heiress ...

BOSTON (AP) — Travel website TripAdvisor says it’s taking a stand against animal exploitation by no longer selling bookings to attractions where travelers can make physical contact with captive wild ...