Suggested Reading and Media

A deep dive into one of the thorniest questions in contemporary animal activism: What are the differences, and similarities, between violent animal exploitation and abortion of human fetuses and how...

This critique of the prevailing view within the animal protection movement regarding the need for more attention from the criminal justice system regarding crimes against animals and more severe...

This brief monograph, though dated, is still relevant in describing the ways in which the welfare of farmed animals has been removed as a subject of legal regulation in the United States. Also in Law...

Bestselling observational reporting of animal behavior, along with reportage on neurological discoveries. Emphasizes the similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness...

An analysis of the question of animal life under capitalism rooted in Laruellean non-philosophy, Marxism, feminism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis that concludes that human emancipation requires animal...

Images taken by a photojournalist in over 20 countries depicting animals held in zoos and aquaria. With contributions from Virginia McKenna, Lori Gruen, and Ron Kagan.

A short book in which thirteen philosophers write in support of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to have a court recognize specific individual chimpanzees as legal persons and entitled to a writ...

A firsthand account of a social psychologist’s somewhat accidental introduction to the world of cat rescue, the trap-neuter-return method of feral cat management and the often hidden world of feral...

Analysis by two experts in agricultural economics of the costs of improving animal welfare in modern farming.

With a strong emphasis on Simone Weil’s conception of vulnerability as a “mark of existence," this book reimagines a poetics that begins with the vulnerability of bodies, rather than the omnipotence...