Animal rights: Battle joined on animal lib

Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading.

Do non-human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to other organisms. Current knowledge about the evolution and cognitive structure of mindreading indicates that human ascriptions of mental states to non-human animals are very inaccurate. The accuracy of h...

Animal rights protests build

Opposition to animal experiments in Britain appears to be extending beyond the labs to other businesses supplying them. Nigel Williams reports.

Government acts on animal rights activists

The British government is bolstering legislation to curb the activity of animal rights protesters who threaten researchers as pharmaceutical companies pledge funds to support animal testing in universities in the face of fears that their crucial supply of graduate and postgraduate recruits is under threat. A hastily assembled programme of legislative reform was released in response to the succe...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

Current status of animal welfare and animal rights in China.

In the past few years, new social passions have sparked on the Chinese mainland. At the centre of these burgeoning passions is a focus on animal welfare, animal treatment, and even animal rights, by the public and academic sectors. With China's rapid economic changes and greater access to information from around the world, societal awareness of animal issues is rising very fast. Hastening this ...