"Pigs are widely recognised by scientists as one of the most intelligent and emotionally complex domestic animals on Earth, yet tens of millions of them spend their lives in industrial agriculture systems that leave little room for curiosity, play, or basic comfort."
a-z-animals.com/articles/nat...
What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for anyone in Britain?
On this day in 1982, the @echr.coe.int ruled that teachers hitting kids in UK state schools was not OK👇
🔗 go.coe.int/tqT6M
Millions of people have since been educated without the threat of physical violence.
#ECHR
Vegans are sometimes accused of ‘forcing’ their beliefs on others (in reality they are just making ethical arguments against animal exploitation). The opposite is the case: vegans are forced to subsidise products that they’re morally opposed to.
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The next Talking Animals talk will be delivered by our Centre's Visiting Researcher, Marcia Condoy Truyenque (PhD candidate @helsinki.fi).
Marcia will present “Animal Legal Individualhood: A comprehensive conception of individuality for animals in the law” on 27 Feb. at 5pm (UK time) on Zoom (1/2)
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!
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Excited to be joining Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, an interdisciplinary research centre at LSE. Our work is guided by ethical moonshots - ambitious, long‑term goals aimed at restoring a harmonious relationship between humans and other species.
🌐 lse.ac.uk/sentience
I cannot get over how stupid this is. The court basically interprets the word 'designation' to mean 'any word used in relation to a product'. So if Oatly said 'this product is not milk, it's an oat based drink' under the SC's logic they would be designating their product as milk! Aaaaaaaaghhhhh!
11.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Just an unbelievably idiotic ruling, one of the worst I've seen from the UKSC. If somebody called themselves a 'Post-Marxist' or a 'Post-liberal' nobody who has a basic grasp of English would think they were 'designating' themselves as Marxists or Liberals!
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The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Over at the bad place senior figures in Reform are calling for universities to be defunded if their student societies don't want to invite Reform MPs onto campus. Our sector is in crisis but a future Reform government would try and murder it, Trump style.
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Today, The Animal Law Foundation has written to the government alongside @leagueacs.bsky.social and 60 other signatories who are calling on the government to put animals back into The Animal Welfare Act.
See who has signed 🧵👇
#AWA20 #AnimalProtection #AnimalLaw
So excited to see this recommendation coming from the Animal Sentience Committee, really hoping it leads to some real change in decapod protection
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Day two in Court, fighting for chickens. Today we listen to the government's defence over the removal of legal protections for chickens.
Stay tuned for more updates.
Support our legal work: animallawfoundation.org/donate
#HandleWithCare @wakkerdier.bsky.social @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: The @NonhumanRights & @AALDP_DU filed a new lawsuit on behalf of ~2,000 beagles at Ridglan Farms. #Wisconsin We’re asking the court to recognize their legal right to be free from cruelty & seeking their immediate release. ⚖️ Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tjMmK8
January 31st marks a tragic anniversary. Happy has been held in solitary confinement at the Bronx Zoo for 20 years. 💔 Elephants are social, self-aware beings. For Happy and Patty, isolation is torture. It’s time for sanctuary. Take action: https://bit.ly/46pbJA5 ✍️🐘 #FreeHappy
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"We saved 37 lives at Sunrise. For that reason alone, it was an enormous success." - Wayne Hsiung
New Animal Law Podcast with @marisul.bsky.social explores the landmark legal case that could redefine animal rescue.
Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on YouTube, or visit ourhenhouse.org/alp128
Grief over pet death can be as strong as that for family member, survey shows, reports The Graun. Researcher calls for guidelines for diagnosing prolonged grief disorder to be expanded to cover people who lose pets. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
29.01.2026 10:37 — 👍 593 🔁 106 💬 48 📌 33Very much looking forward to talking to Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka today about their new @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book 'Animals and the Right to Politics'.
27.01.2026 10:09 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I am struggling to put into words the rage and sadness I feel about the tyrannical Trump regime’s campaign of fascist terror against the people of Minnesota. The bravery of the residents resisting it is inspiring.
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For those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!)
doi.org/10.1002/brv....
Remember they claimed the tariffs were ‘retaliatory’? They even had a formula to prove it (dumb as it was). Surprise, surprise, that was all total bollocks. Now it’s just ‘do as I say or I’ll tariff you’.
21.01.2026 12:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0*insights damn it!
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Two recent burglary trials of activists who rescued puppies from breeding facilities delivered two opposing verdicts: guilty in the first, not guilty in the second. Wayne Hsiung offers incites on why trials with identical facts resulted in different outcomes:
blog.simpleheart.org/p/britain-pr...
History made. 🐘 Pennsylvania has issued its first-ever habeas corpus order for a nonhuman animal. Judge Mary C. McGinley has advanced the NhRPs lawsuit on behalf of the Pittsburgh Zoo elephants. Learn more: https://bit.ly/45MlTuf
Wonderful news!!!
12.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You can judge a person by the size of their moral circle. Trump, for instance, has the smallest possible moral circle, containing only him. Be the opposite: expand your circle. Include, for example, animals currently raised for food. We shut them out of our consciences. It's time to bring them in.
11.01.2026 09:08 — 👍 880 🔁 180 💬 24 📌 9Life imitates "Meat and You: Partners in Freedom" youtu.be/zR_4h5A5z_A?...
07.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
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“One billion chickens a year is not an ethical problem that can be solved with better regulations. It is a moral failure so large it has become invisible, like traffic noise.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Far too many others to mention of course! Thanks to everyone working in this space!
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