Delighted to have received the first copies of my new book (co-edited with John Olusegun Adenitire) on fundamental rights for non-humans - covering animal rights, rights of nature, and AI rights. Many thanks to the wonderful team @hartpublishing.bsky.social and our excellent contributors!

Most animal 'aquaculture' is just a euphemism for 'underwater factory farms'. The conditions are so bad that many millions of animals die before reaching slaughter. Great that Animal Equality are continuing to shed light on this: animalequality.org.uk/news/2026/02...

Today's the day! Feed the People! is now officially published - get it at your favorite bookstore or online (remember to leave reviews to feed the algorithms). See you tonight in Brooklyn for the launch. powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

“What’s to stop this other conglomerate of people and investors from Appleton that don’t live here?” Brenner says. “They don’t have a house here. They couldn’t care less what happens to our roads and to our wells and to our rivers, and it’s all about the money. They’ve got millions invested.”

"They don't want you to know the details—they just want to create the illusion that they care about their animals." Mariann exposes animal ag's PR tactics in this week's Rising Anxieties. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep904

Don't miss our next Talking Animals presentation tomorrow! 🦩 Professor Angela Fernandez (utoronto.ca) will deliver “Grabbing at Freedom: Does an Escaped Animal Have a Right to Their Freedom?” tomorrow, Wednesday, 18th February, 5-6.30pm (UK time) on Zoom. 💻 (1/2)

AALDP & @nonhumanrights.bsky.social filed a historic, 1st-of-its-kind lawsuit to recognize the legal right of 2000 beagles at 🐶 experimentation breeder Ridglan Farms to be free from cruelty. Come to our webinar TOMORROW. Learn about next steps & how to help action.nonhumanrights.org/a/free-cruel...

BREAKING: We’ve just released an interactive map exposing every factory farm and slaughterhouse in the state of California. Check out the map and sign our open letter at FactoryFarmWatch.org

Waste-to-Energy Digesters Were Sold as a Climate Fix. Now the USDA Is Hitting Pause.

Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Vegan Bed & Breakfast spots in the UK! - The Miggi - The Balsporran - Blaeberry House - Fox Hall - Greenstone Lodge - Loaf - Michael House - Our Lizzy - Peasholm Park - Stoneleigh Kingsland - Stonewater House - The Base Retreat - Weymouth Vegan B&B 🇬🇧🖤🇬🇧 www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/bes...

oh my god... just saw this, can't believe it...💔

This year we're is participating in Project for Awesome #P4A2026—an campaign that directs funds to nonprofits creating a kinder world. The most-voted orgs receive grant funding! Cast your vote for the NhRP: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/the-nonhuman-rights-project-project-for-awesome-2026

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials. With @texastribune.org

I'm increasingly seeing AI-generated videos of trampolining deer, bear-fighting grandmas, 'newly discovered' species (sea owls?!). These animal deepfakes are everywhere and they're distorting our understanding of other species. Helpful study about where this is headed... tinyurl.com/msc6hs5s

Oatly was just banned from marketing its plant-based products as “milk” in the UK. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Oatly could not trademark the slogan “post-milk generation” or use the word milk.

Sports are for willing participants. NOT for animals who didn’t have a say at all. 🐎 #horses #horseriding #horseracing #racehorse #animalrights

If you're around NYC this Tuesday, come out to the book launch for Feed the People! Powerhouse in Dumbo at 7 p.m., Feb 17. powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

Some good reading from the archives: Comics for Earth: Eight New Graphic Novels About Saving the Planet and Celebrating Wildlife https://therevelator.org/environmental-graphic-novels/

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

The biggest university monkey lab in the country is working with the NIH to potentially end its experimentation on monkeys and transition to being a primate sanctuary. It's a big deal, and I had thoughts! Pls don't yell at me until you've read www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Want to teach Animal Rights Law? Join Dr Sean Butler (Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge) and Dr Raffael Fasel (Assistant Professor in Public Law, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge), for a Law Lecturers' Workshop. (1/4)

The Latest Animal Research News: —Monkey research center could become primate sanctuary; —Investigation requested into monkey importer; —MI lawmakers urge NIH to stop funding beagle testing at Wayne State; —And more: www.riseforanimals.org/news/news-fe...

I don't generally share petitions, but this one here is really worth signing. In short, Cambridge University’s planned transition to sustainable plant-based menus may be blocked due to a flawed analysis of data from a successful trial. www.change.org/p/urge-unive...

NEW: Ben Williamson of Animal Outlook exposes how "family farms" selling raw milk follow the same playbook as mega dairies. Their investigation reveals the pastoral myth vs. reality. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on YouTube, or visit ourhenhouse.org/ep903

If I ever get a minute to write anything again, I would like more attention paid to the fact that the ag industry is basically left to its own devices. This is one example of when there's little incentive OR regulatory oversight for better welfare. sentientmedia.org/cattle-raise...

Yesterday the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas dismissed our petition on behalf of the elephants at the #PittsburghZoo. We will appeal. Read our full statement on this decision: https://bit.ly/4ro7ZaO

#NIH to deprioritize pandemic preparedness and biodefense research, @nature.com reports, saying director Jay Bhattacharya wants to focus on known diseases, not possible future threats. What could possibly go wrong? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DU's Animal Law Program hopes to launch Animals Forward: Advancing Interspecies Justice – an executive-level certificate program designed to equip advocates with the tools to create meaningful change for beyond human animals. Come out 2/28 & learn more: www.law.du.edu/preview-link...

Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾 Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act. More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

Courage looks like Haitian meatpacking workers suing JBS for discrimination, despite Trump, Noem, and Big Ag stoking deportation fears and uncertainty. We're proud to represent them. Now, workers from many backgrounds at the Greeley plant have authorized a strike. thefern.org/2026/02/thes...

This Week in Food News: Vegan Ramen Hits Whole Foods, Oatly Banned From Using Word ‘Milk,’ and a New Snack  From Bitchin’ Sauce

In our latest Hen Report, @jasminsinger.com and @marisul.bsky.social reflect on the emotional impact of seeing captive primates and the sacred role sanctuaries play in our movement. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep902 #AnimalRights

Could animal sanctuaries be like shrines or mosques or gurdwaras or temples or synagogues or churches for Sentientists? Not as places of worship, but as places to connect, recharge, help each other and inspire visions of a Sentientist future? Inspired by @marisul.bsky.social 🥰

Mercy For Animals has found that intensive dairy farming increases the incidence of mastitis, a painful udder infection that can contaminate milk with pus and cause high somatic cell counts, creating a breeding ground for dangerous pathogens. Learn more: people.com/raw-milk-out... #Dairy

Over 13,000 sign petition to save 51 dairy cows

If you wondered how the USDA plans to cozy up ti industry, they’ve just …put it all on these pages. This new doc — not so cleverly called “Lawfare” — is the Project 2025 of Big Ag Polluters. The Dept of War but for food. What they’ve been doing and plan to do to weaken environmental protections

Court rules that public has right to information on how animals are reared

The Trump administration recently announced the launch of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, a gesture toward “MAHA” promises to reform America’s broken food systems. We took a look at the details of the plan. Unsurprisingly, it falls far short of what is needed. www.iatp.org/new-regenera...

Animal Law & Advocacy Conference 2026: Save the Date & Submit a Speaker Proposal!

"Highly pathogenic strains like this one likely originate and intensify not in wild flocks, but in crowded industrial poultry systems." #AvianFlu www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

This could not be more critical to understand.

My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨

Conference announcement/CFP: Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity University of Sheffield 8-9 September 2026 This is the latest installment in the long-running Animal Politics series. Abstracts due 12 June. Spread the word!

Abe Lincoln riddle: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? Answer: Four, because a tail is still a tail, no matter what you call it. And climate change is still a threat, no matter what Trump calls it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

While the EPA is about to dismantle itself, it's good to know where most of the pesticides in the U.S. are going. This is what is contaminating U.S. waterways, killing biodiversity, and ending up in your drinking water.

❓️ What do ordinary people on the street think of rescuing beagle puppies from animal testing..? Rose took to the streets to ask that very question and the answer was resounding: regular people do not think rescuing dogs is a crime. In 2 weeks Beagle Rescue Trial 4 kicks off, as Rose and her.. 1/3

NEW RISING ANXIETIES! 🔥 "It always makes me happy to hear that someone in the industry thinks we're onto something." - @marisul.bsky.social The ag industry's anxieties are showing in this week's episode! Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep901

Interested in winning a cash prize for your writing? Our Centre is still accepting essays for our 2026 Essay Competition! If you're a university or secondary/high school student, this is a great opportunity to explore questions on animal rights law through research and writing. 🧑‍💻 (1/2)