Category: Research & Innovation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.