Tag: Animal Rights
Choose Your Battles: Why Standing for Non-Human Animals May Not Protect Them
….animal advocates should focus on changing the substantive law protecting animals—the procedural law should be much less of a focus.
24 Nov 2018
Getting the Elephant out of the Room: A Needed Update to the Animal Welfare Act’s Humaneness Requirement as a Prohibition of Elephant Captivity in Zoos
The best solution for elephants currently suffering in zoos is to move them to elephant sanctuaries. A chorus of public and institutional support already exists for getting elephants out of zoos.
22 Sep 2018
Animal Advocacy During The Trump Administration
Many animal advocates opposed the election of Donald Trump. The Humane Society called a Trump presidency “a threat to animals everywhere.” Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Washington Post, warned of Trump’s “anti-animal animus.” The reality is more nuanced. While Trump seems likely to roll back some legal protections for animals, the change in administration…
7 Feb 2017
The Price is Wrong
The price is wrong! Bob Barker, you know it! The price—the dollars and cents we pay when we buy animal products—is really wrong. Meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and all other sorts of animal foods that so many Americans buy so regularly are, in general, shockingly less expensive than market trends would predict. The sorcery of…
31 Mar 2011