This Court of Appeals decision marks yet another legal defeat in a string of defeats for the animal legal personhood movement.

A major blow to animal rights and nonhuman animal “personhood” advocates, the New York Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 decision, rejected the effort by the NonHuman Rights Project.

"We will not adopt a pet to you if your values are incompatible with ours."

Suspects break into zoo and attempted to cut the locks at the wolf and bear habitats and released others.

"Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) Continues to Misuse the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Potentially Risking the Health and Welfare of Happy, An Elephant at the Bronx Zoo This Case Has Nothing to Do with “Freeing” Happy."

The precedent created by this verdict has strong positive implications for researchers, zoos, farms, and animal owners.

We were reminded of a study which was published in Social Movement Studies entitled “Nobody’s paying me to cry: the causes of activist burnout in United States animal rights activists.” The authors concluded that, while many factors play a role, racist and sexist treatment of individuals within animal rights groups also contributed to what the authors described as “burnout:” “when people once deeply embedded in movements – people who intended to remain engaged – are forced to disengage due to the stress impacts of participation.”

One might be surprised at first to think that an organization that purports it’s alleged “ethical” motive would attempt to convey it through “unethical” means by taking advantage of what many are going through with the finical struggles after emerging out of the pandemic. Well, this is nothing new for PETA. In fact, this is right up their alley.

The new lawsuit is filed by Jeffrey Thomas, a former employee of HSUS’s lobbying arm. Thomas previously filed a lawsuit against the former secretary of Pacelle, accusing her of making false accusations against him after he spurned her advances.

Animal rights activists from out of state were charged Wednesday in Dane County for allegedly stealing three beagles from an animal testing and breeding facility in the town of Blue Mounds, WI.