Gadgil has opposed rigid, protectionist conservation models that, he says, elevate animal rights above human survival and ...

Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often criticized for their views because others fear it will diminish ...

For most people, it can be hard to imagine a society framed around animal rights. What would it look like? How would it work? And why, given humankind’s historic reliance on animals for food and ...

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He filed lawsuits to define chimpanzees as persons and to establish their right to what he called “bodily liberty” over confinement. By Sam Roberts Steven M. Wise, a pioneering animal rights lawyer ...

To the editor: If Zoe Rosenberg achieved her mission of releasing every poultry chicken from captivity, she would fail at her goal of making “every animal … safe and happy, free” (“An animal rights ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...