Omnivore - The Antispeciesist Revolution: On Animal Intelligence, Personhood, and Morality

This collection of links on animal rights, animal intelligence, animal consciousness, animal morality, and a whole lot more, appeared on Bookforum's Omnivore blog a couple of weeks ago.


The antispeciesist revolution

AUG 6 2013 

9:00AM

• From The Humanist, Namit Arora on eating animals: Opposition to factory farming as an ethical starting point. 
• Should chimpanzees have legal rights? The “animal personhood” movement believes dolphins, great apes, and elephants deserve to be able to sue — and now it has a plaintiff. 
• On being an octopus: Peter Godfrey-Smith on diving deep in search of the human mind. 
• James McWilliams on radical activism and the future of animal rights. 
• Animals have thoughts, feelings and personality — why have we taken so long to catch up with animal consciousness? 
• Tom McClelland reviews Can Animals Be Moral? by Mark Rowlands. 
• If you know how a cow feels, will you eat less meat? Inside a lab on the Stanford University campus, students experience what it might feel like to be a cow. 
• An excerpt from Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory by Vaclav Smil. 
• Researchers find more evidence that dolphins use names. 
• David Pearce on the antispeciesist revolution. 
• Andrew C. Revkin on a closer look at “nonhuman personhood” and animal welfare. 
• The first chapter from Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models by William Hoppitt and Kevin N. Laland. 
• Julie Hecht on how to teach language to dogs. 
• Peter Singer on the world's first cruelty-free hamburger: Today's tasting of in vitro meat could herald a future free from needless animal suffering and polluting factory farms.