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Category: Research & Innovation

baby pigs crowded in a pen, waiting to be killed--Slaughterhouse regulations allow egregious policies and practices

Slaughterhouse Workers, Animals, and the Environment: The Need for a Rights-Centered Regulatory Framework

This paper discusses the long history of failed regulatory oversight in US slaughterhouses and the need for a right-to-health regulatory approach.

A child and a cow--a new-rights-based relationship with the nonhuman world

Emerging from COVID-19: A New, Rights-Based Relationship with the Nonhuman World?

Mia MacDonald argues for the rights of human and nonhuman populations to be accepted as complementary and to be advanced together to further the right to life and health.

Image of a lizard--beyond anthropocentrism

Beyond Anthropocentrism: Health Rights and Ecological Justice

In this essay, the author highlights why we need to include both sentient and non-sentient beings in a right to health and justice, including through legal frameworks.

Belmont Report for Animals video screenshot

Why We Need a Belmont Report for Animals

In this short video, learn about how The Belmont Report gained important protections for human research subjects, and why we need to extend those same protections to animals.

Book cover for Voracious Science Vulnerable Animals by John P. Gluck of a primate

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals

In his memoir, Dr. John P. Gluck shares his journey from dedicated animal researcher to passionate advocate for animals and scientific and ethical advancements.

strands of DNA

Transforming Medical Research: A Teaching Guide

This teaching guide accompanies a video of a panel discussion exploring why and how we need to transform medical research to protect and benefit people and animals.

Lucy the dog is a rescue from a laboratory

Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science

This essay outlines the need to establish a Belmont Report for Animals that extends important research protections that humans get to other animals.

A moose is trying to cross a busy road

Building Better Roadways for People, Animals, and the Planet

Having the freedom to move toward resources and away from threats is critical to the health and wellbeing of all life on the planet.

young person with a dog in their lap sitting under a tree

Advancing Medical Research Through Ethics and Innovation

Research has depended heavily on violating the rights of the most vulnerable. But public demand has resulted in a reevaluation of how research is done.

Image of person working in a garden.

Toward a More Just and Sovereign Food System

Vegan biocyclic and vegan stock-free organic agriculture demonstrate that food that is healthy for humans can be grown in harmony with the earth and with free-living animals.

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