Category: Research & Innovation

The Benefits of Vegan Permaculture and Food Forests
Learn more about the power of vegan permaculture and food forests to help create community, increase food sovereignty, and alleviate food insecurity.

Toward the Goal of a Clothing and Textiles Industry That Is Healthy for People, Animals, and the Planet
Learn about the importance of shifting to ethical fashion policies and practices and about who is leading the way.

Measuring a Population’s Progress
As a society, we cannot know if circumstances are improving unless we compare them with the past. But are metrics like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) sufficient?

What’s Trade Got to Do with It?
At the fifth annual Impact Fashion Summit and Show, Phoenix Zones Initiative’s team reported on the human, animal, and environmental health costs of fashion.

Challenging the Way We Produce and Consume Food
The COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities to change how we produce and consume food.

The Ethical Challenges of Animal Research: Honoring Henry Beecher’s Approach to Moral Problems
In 1966, Dr. Henry K. Beecher drew attention to common moral problems in human research. A deep dive reveals similar moral problems with animal research.

Animals Deserve Research Protections People Get
Learn how our institutions could better respond to monumental shifts in our understanding of and concern for animals.

A Belmont Report for Animals?
The Belmont Report published key ethical principles to which human research should adhere. The same principles can be extended to nonhuman animals.

Rethinking the Ethics of Research Involving Animals
This issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics explores the ethics of research involving animals and creative ways to reimagine our treatment of other animals.

Reenvisioning Our Research Agenda
The time has come to create a national medical and public health research agenda that is shaped by an inclusive and holistic social, economic, and cultural paradigm.