International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics
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ICARE | #Academia Meets #AnimalAdvocacy🦉
#ICARE was founded from the realisation that #AnimalRightsLaw lacked attention in legal education, research, and advocacy.⚖️
📚 ICARE aims to bridge academia and advocacy, empowering #scholactivists to turn research into legal protections for animals.🌐
#ICARE was founded from the realisation that #AnimalRightsLaw lacked attention in legal education, research, and advocacy.⚖️
📚 ICARE aims to bridge academia and advocacy, empowering #scholactivists to turn research into legal protections for animals.🌐
ICARE’s submission to the European Commission consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation is available on our Publications page. 🐓🐷🐟
We want to celebrate everyone who took the time to participate.
Read/download: icare-animals.org/publications/eu-consultation-aw
We want to celebrate everyone who took the time to participate.
Read/download: icare-animals.org/publications/eu-consultation-aw
ICARE submission to the European Commission public consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation — ICARE
Overview This submission responds to the European Commission’s 12-week public consultation ( 19 September–17 December 2025 ) supporting the impact assessment for a revision of EU on-farm animal…
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December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ICARE’s submission to the European Commission consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation is available on our Publications page. 🐓🐷🐟
We want to celebrate everyone who took the time to participate.
Read/download: icare-animals.org/publications/eu-consultation-aw
We want to celebrate everyone who took the time to participate.
Read/download: icare-animals.org/publications/eu-consultation-aw
🕎🎄 The holiday season can be especially challenging for animal advocates.
✍️ We’ve published a new blog post as part of our Mental Health and Animal Advocacy series, reflecting on how animal advocates can navigate the end-of-year period with more care.
🔗 Read at icareanimals.substack.com
✍️ We’ve published a new blog post as part of our Mental Health and Animal Advocacy series, reflecting on how animal advocates can navigate the end-of-year period with more care.
🔗 Read at icareanimals.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🕎🎄 The holiday season can be especially challenging for animal advocates.
✍️ We’ve published a new blog post as part of our Mental Health and Animal Advocacy series, reflecting on how animal advocates can navigate the end-of-year period with more care.
🔗 Read at icareanimals.substack.com
✍️ We’ve published a new blog post as part of our Mental Health and Animal Advocacy series, reflecting on how animal advocates can navigate the end-of-year period with more care.
🔗 Read at icareanimals.substack.com
🤖 AI and Animals 🐾
New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬
New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🤖 AI and Animals 🐾
New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬
New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬
🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️
Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?
Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️
Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?
Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?
Help build the #legalchange #animals need to be more than property this #GivingTuesday. ICARE, a volunteer-only women-led org, has trained 150 #advocates from 50 countries through 4 courses this year. Our founder matches gifts up to €1,000 until 31/12.
Donate: icare-animals.org/donate
#AnimalRights
Donate: icare-animals.org/donate
#AnimalRights
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Help build the #legalchange #animals need to be more than property this #GivingTuesday. ICARE, a volunteer-only women-led org, has trained 150 #advocates from 50 countries through 4 courses this year. Our founder matches gifts up to €1,000 until 31/12.
Donate: icare-animals.org/donate
#AnimalRights
Donate: icare-animals.org/donate
#AnimalRights
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
Looking to explore fresh perspectives on wild animals’ rights beyond the usual focus on freedom? 🐿️
🖍️ This week’s pick invites us to rethink what sovereignty might mean when applied to wild animal communities, and whether the concept truly fits.
Looking to explore fresh perspectives on wild animals’ rights beyond the usual focus on freedom? 🐿️
🖍️ This week’s pick invites us to rethink what sovereignty might mean when applied to wild animal communities, and whether the concept truly fits.
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
Looking to explore fresh perspectives on wild animals’ rights beyond the usual focus on freedom? 🐿️
🖍️ This week’s pick invites us to rethink what sovereignty might mean when applied to wild animal communities, and whether the concept truly fits.
Looking to explore fresh perspectives on wild animals’ rights beyond the usual focus on freedom? 🐿️
🖍️ This week’s pick invites us to rethink what sovereignty might mean when applied to wild animal communities, and whether the concept truly fits.
🐾 AI and Animals 🤖
AI is now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, and the lives of animals, too.
While conservation projects and attempts to decode animal communication often receive the spotlight, what is going on with 'pet' animals?
AI is now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, and the lives of animals, too.
While conservation projects and attempts to decode animal communication often receive the spotlight, what is going on with 'pet' animals?
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🐾 AI and Animals 🤖
AI is now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, and the lives of animals, too.
While conservation projects and attempts to decode animal communication often receive the spotlight, what is going on with 'pet' animals?
AI is now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, and the lives of animals, too.
While conservation projects and attempts to decode animal communication often receive the spotlight, what is going on with 'pet' animals?
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🐷
How do animal welfare inspections really unfold on Europe’s farms and in slaughterhouses? This week, we recommend Eimear McLoughlin’s ethnographic paper, 'Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe.'
How do animal welfare inspections really unfold on Europe’s farms and in slaughterhouses? This week, we recommend Eimear McLoughlin’s ethnographic paper, 'Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe.'
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🐷
How do animal welfare inspections really unfold on Europe’s farms and in slaughterhouses? This week, we recommend Eimear McLoughlin’s ethnographic paper, 'Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe.'
How do animal welfare inspections really unfold on Europe’s farms and in slaughterhouses? This week, we recommend Eimear McLoughlin’s ethnographic paper, 'Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe.'
🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️
Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.
Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️
Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.
Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.
🇨🇴 Colombia is bringing animal protection into schools 🦉
Ley Empatía seeks to integrate animal protection, animal welfare, and biodiversity conservation into Colombia’s official education framework. 🐾 The law is now awaiting promulgation.
Ley Empatía seeks to integrate animal protection, animal welfare, and biodiversity conservation into Colombia’s official education framework. 🐾 The law is now awaiting promulgation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🇨🇴 Colombia is bringing animal protection into schools 🦉
Ley Empatía seeks to integrate animal protection, animal welfare, and biodiversity conservation into Colombia’s official education framework. 🐾 The law is now awaiting promulgation.
Ley Empatía seeks to integrate animal protection, animal welfare, and biodiversity conservation into Colombia’s official education framework. 🐾 The law is now awaiting promulgation.
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉
In Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within the concept of 'baggage' under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. ✈️🐶
In Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within the concept of 'baggage' under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. ✈️🐶
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉
In Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within the concept of 'baggage' under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. ✈️🐶
In Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within the concept of 'baggage' under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. ✈️🐶
⚖️ Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law: Captivity 🦉
We usually think captivity means physical restraint and the inability to move freely. But this concept is more complex. So what does captivity mean, especially for other animals? 🐾
We usually think captivity means physical restraint and the inability to move freely. But this concept is more complex. So what does captivity mean, especially for other animals? 🐾
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
⚖️ Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law: Captivity 🦉
We usually think captivity means physical restraint and the inability to move freely. But this concept is more complex. So what does captivity mean, especially for other animals? 🐾
We usually think captivity means physical restraint and the inability to move freely. But this concept is more complex. So what does captivity mean, especially for other animals? 🐾
🦉 Join us for Seminar #4: Right to Rescue & Voluntary Prosecution in Animal Advocacy, an unflinching look at how movement-lawyering is reshaping animal rights law and accountability for animal exploitation. ⚖️🐔🐶
🗓 10 December 2025, 5 PM CET
💻 Registration via Luma: luma.com/0b7oma41
🗓 10 December 2025, 5 PM CET
💻 Registration via Luma: luma.com/0b7oma41
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🦉 Join us for Seminar #4: Right to Rescue & Voluntary Prosecution in Animal Advocacy, an unflinching look at how movement-lawyering is reshaping animal rights law and accountability for animal exploitation. ⚖️🐔🐶
🗓 10 December 2025, 5 PM CET
💻 Registration via Luma: luma.com/0b7oma41
🗓 10 December 2025, 5 PM CET
💻 Registration via Luma: luma.com/0b7oma41
📖 We’re pleased to share this event co-organised by the Journal of Animal Rights Law (JARL) and the GW Animal Law Animal Legal Education Initiative (ALEI) — the Encyclopedia of Animal Law Launch Symposium, on 11 December 2025 (9 am – 3 pm EST / 3 pm – 9 pm CET).
Register here: luma.com/0k6iwpwx
Register here: luma.com/0k6iwpwx
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
📖 We’re pleased to share this event co-organised by the Journal of Animal Rights Law (JARL) and the GW Animal Law Animal Legal Education Initiative (ALEI) — the Encyclopedia of Animal Law Launch Symposium, on 11 December 2025 (9 am – 3 pm EST / 3 pm – 9 pm CET).
Register here: luma.com/0k6iwpwx
Register here: luma.com/0k6iwpwx
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New research on the associations between ideological orientations & commitment to eating animal products, incl dairy, eggs, & fish, not just meat, across dietary groups, incl omnis, flexis, pescis, & veggies
Maria Ioannidou et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
Maria Ioannidou et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New research on the associations between ideological orientations & commitment to eating animal products, incl dairy, eggs, & fish, not just meat, across dietary groups, incl omnis, flexis, pescis, & veggies
Maria Ioannidou et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
Maria Ioannidou et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.
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The Tortoise’s Tale is in Psychology Today. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
How Tortoises Can Connect Us, Heal Us, and Offer Hope
Kendra Coulter's new book, "The Tortoise Tale", helps us recognize the interconnectedness of all life and shows how an unlikely wild neighbor can help us see ourselves anew.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Tortoise’s Tale is in Psychology Today. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places.
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places.
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
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In Iberia (C-218/24), the CJEU ruled that a companion animal lost during international air travel counts as “baggage” under the Montreal Convention.
MARINE LERCIER criticizes how Iberia turned dogs into luggage:
verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com...
MARINE LERCIER criticizes how Iberia turned dogs into luggage:
verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com...
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In Iberia (C-218/24), the CJEU ruled that a companion animal lost during international air travel counts as “baggage” under the Montreal Convention.
MARINE LERCIER criticizes how Iberia turned dogs into luggage:
verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com...
MARINE LERCIER criticizes how Iberia turned dogs into luggage:
verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com...
🦉 Explore ICARE’s new Resource Library! 🌐📚
We’re delighted to unveil our latest digital hub – the Resource Library – bringing together ICARE’s original educational and research-based materials designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible.
🔗 icare-animals.org/resource-library
We’re delighted to unveil our latest digital hub – the Resource Library – bringing together ICARE’s original educational and research-based materials designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible.
🔗 icare-animals.org/resource-library
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🦉 Explore ICARE’s new Resource Library! 🌐📚
We’re delighted to unveil our latest digital hub – the Resource Library – bringing together ICARE’s original educational and research-based materials designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible.
🔗 icare-animals.org/resource-library
We’re delighted to unveil our latest digital hub – the Resource Library – bringing together ICARE’s original educational and research-based materials designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible.
🔗 icare-animals.org/resource-library
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Animal advocate Zoe Rosenberg has been convicted of felony conspiracy & 3 misdemeanours for rescuing 4 sick chickens from a CA slaughterhouse. This unfortunate verdict is yet another example of how the legal system protects abusive industries & often punishes those who try to help. #PerdueTrial
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Animal advocate Zoe Rosenberg has been convicted of felony conspiracy & 3 misdemeanours for rescuing 4 sick chickens from a CA slaughterhouse. This unfortunate verdict is yet another example of how the legal system protects abusive industries & often punishes those who try to help. #PerdueTrial
🎃 The real scare this Halloween? The ghosts of old laws still haunt our courts. 👻
In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that when a companion animal like Mona 🐕 is lost on a flight, the harm caused to her human guardian is treated as the loss of mere 'baggage'.
In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that when a companion animal like Mona 🐕 is lost on a flight, the harm caused to her human guardian is treated as the loss of mere 'baggage'.
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎃 The real scare this Halloween? The ghosts of old laws still haunt our courts. 👻
In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that when a companion animal like Mona 🐕 is lost on a flight, the harm caused to her human guardian is treated as the loss of mere 'baggage'.
In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that when a companion animal like Mona 🐕 is lost on a flight, the harm caused to her human guardian is treated as the loss of mere 'baggage'.
AI and Animals 🐷🤖
Artificial Intelligence is stepping into farms, but not without raising new ethical questions.
The UK’s IntelliPig project, led by animal welfare researcher Ema Baxter, is developing a system to monitor pigs individually using facial recognition and AI-driven data.
Artificial Intelligence is stepping into farms, but not without raising new ethical questions.
The UK’s IntelliPig project, led by animal welfare researcher Ema Baxter, is developing a system to monitor pigs individually using facial recognition and AI-driven data.
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
AI and Animals 🐷🤖
Artificial Intelligence is stepping into farms, but not without raising new ethical questions.
The UK’s IntelliPig project, led by animal welfare researcher Ema Baxter, is developing a system to monitor pigs individually using facial recognition and AI-driven data.
Artificial Intelligence is stepping into farms, but not without raising new ethical questions.
The UK’s IntelliPig project, led by animal welfare researcher Ema Baxter, is developing a system to monitor pigs individually using facial recognition and AI-driven data.
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉
Can non-human animals follow social norms too? 🐘🐒🐦
Can non-human animals follow social norms too? 🐘🐒🐦
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉
Can non-human animals follow social norms too? 🐘🐒🐦
Can non-human animals follow social norms too? 🐘🐒🐦