This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Life is improving for millions of animals in the US. Pigs are being freed from crates, and laying hens are being liberated from their cages. Progress is on the horizon for broiler…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Industrial-scale farming systems enable mass production of cheap animal foods at low cost. However, poorly managed livestock systems have raised various environmental and health concerns. Factory farms, in which 99 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Melanie Anderson grew up in the West Texas Trans-Pecos area (Midland), part of the Chihuahua desert which is the largest desert in North America. The Midland-Odessa area, known as the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most of our research, research we have funded, and resources we provide advocates have been related to helping farmed animals. We consider addressing the suffering caused by industrial animal agriculture to be a high-impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we emerge from the pandemic, we still face an existing and long-standing crisis — the effects of climate change on our planet. As Earth Day approaches, we must consider…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past half century, China has lost 53 per cent of its temperate coastal wetlands. The main problems are 1) Wetland protection laws and regulations are not complete; 2)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Retired lab animal veterinarian Larry Carbone (author of the highly regarded book “What Animals Want”) recently wrote a provocative article in Nature Special Reports in which he estimates that more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ACE has grappled with the financial, strategic, and psychological repercussions of COVID-19 and the emotional toll of the tragic events that necessitated the Black Lives Matter uprising (with which we show total…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In December, with an oil lease sale looming and the Trump administration trying to push through a seismic study for oil exploration before leaving the White House, the pressure was on for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a powerful environmental law protecting imperiled plants and animals, and a growing number of marine species have been protected under this law as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our industrial food system affects public health in many ways: the obesity epidemic, antibiotic resistance, farm and food worker health and more. While industrialized farming practices are legally within the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Part I, we introduced Bill Nimmo and Kizmin Reeves, a retired couple that became involved in the rescue of seven tigers they had known as cubs in New Jersey…