Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often criticized for their views because others fear it will diminish ...

In January, six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five elderly African elephants were not people. That may not sound like an issue that needs six justices to resolve, but ...

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The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years ...

To the editor: If Zoe Rosenberg achieved her mission of releasing every poultry chicken from captivity, she would fail at her goal of making “every animal … safe and happy, free” (“An animal rights ...

He filed lawsuits to define chimpanzees as persons and to establish their right to what he called “bodily liberty” over confinement. By Sam Roberts Steven M. Wise, a pioneering animal rights lawyer ...

For centuries, if not millennia, ethical debates have centred on the notion that human beings have certain fundamental, inalienable rights. No matter what you do, or how evilly you behave, those ...

The Trump administration is receiving an outpouring of support from animal advocacy groups, lawmakers and others for recent announcements to end animal testing within programs at the FDA and EPA.