Ross Campbell (NYU): Justifying Force Against Animal Cruelty. David N. Cassuto and Cayleigh S Eckhardt (Pace): Don’t Be Cruel (Anymore): A Look at the Animal Cruelty Regimes of the United States and Brazil with a Call for a New Animal Welfare Agency. Courtney G. Lee (Pacific): The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty: Problems and Possibilities in Animal Testing Regulation. The cruelty of kindness: “No kill” animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering — is a life of misery any better than a quick death? Scott Fahrenkrug might end animal cruelty — unless GMO hardliners stop him. Yuval Harari on how industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history. Nicholas Kristof on animal cruelty or the price of dinner? Open the cages: Peter Singer reviews The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals by Wayne Pacelle.
Yew-Kwang Ng (NTU): How Welfare Biology and Common Sense May Help to Reduce Animal Suffering. How can you tell if an animal is happy or sad? Dinesh Wadiwel (Sydney): Do Fish Resist? Cecil the Lion died in vain: Demand from rich hunters still driving exotic big game business.
Josh Milburn (QUB): Not Only Humans Eat Meat: Companions, Sentience, and Vegan Politics. Tyler Doggett reviews The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat, ed. Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer. What does the meat industry do to people’s mental health? The video the meat industry doesn’t want us to see: Secret footage of hatchery shows baby chicks killed and tossed into black bin-liners as others are processed on assembly line like they are already dead. Is there a moral case for eating meat? Scientists have cracked the secret to growing meat, which is great news for animal lovers everywhere.
Xavier Cohen (Oxford): How Should Vegans Live? (and a response) Elizabeth Cherry (Manhattanville): I Was a Teenage Vegan: Motivation and Maintenance of Lifestyle Movements. Marco Springmann on why everyone becoming vegan or vegetarian would save millions of lives and cut greenhouse emissions. Why doesn’t everyone go vegetarian? Jared Piazza wonders. Thinking of becoming a vegetarian? Well, you can’t.
