FarmKind’s new campaign, charmingly titled  “ Forget Veganuary, ”  arrives with the air of a bold realist crashing an idealist party. The message is disarmingly soothing: relax, nobody is asking you to stop eating meat. Just keep doing what you’re doing, send some money to animal welfare charities, and voilà—moral crisis resolved. Veganism, we are told, is too demanding, too alienating, too pure. What we really need is a pragmatic compromise, one that allows us to care deepl

In Season 7 of The Animal Turn podcast, focused on Animals and Health , the lives of free-roaming dogs in India was often used as a fulcrum around which to think about multispecies health and questions of justice. Many of the interviewees who appeared on the show challenged established conceptions of how humans and dogs interact and advocated for more inclusive understandings of how street dogs shape the geography, history, and ecology of Indian cities. Through analyzing Brit

In preparation for an upcoming episode on The Animal Turn , I have just finished reading The Lion’s Historian . This brilliant book by Sandra Swart traces the trajectories of animals’ histories in South Africa. She discusses the myths around lions, the extinction of the quagga, and the making of police dogs. In her final chapter, she discusses baboons and the long entanglement of human-baboon relations. Swart notes the tightly knit relations between humans and baboons in sout

What started out as a difficult conversation about the inevitability of a dog’s death gradually turned into a discussion on how dogs and humans can live better. In the last interview episode of season 7, Claudia talks with philosopher and bioethicist Jessica Pierce about their experiences of living with dogs and how to give meaning to multispecies cohabitation

Suzana Gartner unpacks the contours of her recently published book "A Voice for Animals"

In December 2024 I released a speculative fiction novella called   The Jacksons’ Debate , published by a THRIVE Publishing’s initiative,...