Animals

Do the harms of industrial agriculture make the switch to lab-grown meat a moral necessity?

Does the very existence of lab-grown meat encourage us to continue to discount animal interests?

Lab-grown meat might lessen the instances of animal cruelty, but its invention also betrays an inability to keep our appetites in check.

Under what conditions might a creature to become a rights-bearer? Who should get to decide?

Is the potential threat to human life and harm done to animals enough to overcome business interests and property rights?

In what ways does our position in relation to domesticated animals place additional duties of care upon us?

What obligation do we have to restoring and preserving ecosystems and does that obligation extend to include predators?

Now is the perfect time to rethink our relationship with meat — the industry behind it and the baggage that comes with it.

As many police practices come under increasing scrutiny, we must consider the role of nonhuman animals in police forces.

The current crisis has provided a new context to evaluate our relationship to meat and the machinery that produces it. Can we justify the cost of this "vital" labor?

The current crisis should persuade us to reconsider our relationship to the natural world.

What properties or characteristics might explain our different intuitions about the edibility of nonhuman creatures?

Recent federal legislation aimed at safeguarding animal welfare and criminalizing torture and cruelty promises much and delivers little.

From wildlife selfies to zoos, our use of animals for entertainment purposes often betrays an inability to take on another's vantage.

Developing human/non-human embryos for research and organ transplant raises tough questions about the value of human life and the politics of species taxonomy.

Roll-backs and deregulation concerning 'threatened' species raise questions about the weighing of human and animal interests.

Research involving animal embryos that have human cells requires us to revisit our standards regarding moral status.

Progress has been made, but we still have a long way to go to fulfill our moral obligations with regard to animal rights.

The move to grant non-human animals, and even non-organisms like rivers, legal personhood prompts reflection on our evolving conception of rights.

The media's treatment of recent plant-based meat rollouts fails to give the significant moral gains their due.