Animal Welfare
Vox’s home for coverage of animal rights and welfare.
Where biomedicine gets it wrong about primate research.
Star chef José Andrés is piloting a lab-grown chicken dinner. Here’s what it tastes like.
Raising the consequences for animal testing experiments gone wrong.
Tips on how to give your cat or dog a good life while you travel — from three pet experts.
Meat grown in a lab will soon land at restaurants in DC and San Francisco.
How to tell if your pet is suffering from wildfire smoke.
How plant-based meat’s dependence on coconut and cacao could become a liability.
The milk wars are heating up.
The moral philosopher Peter Singer on animal welfare, the ethics of euthanasia, and more.
Upholding Prop 12 could create a bold new era of animal advocacy, but only if we go further.
You will cry at Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
The horse racing industry is egregiously cruel. We should end it yesterday.
De-extinction isn’t worth the ethical cost.
Factory farming’s disaster problem, explained.
The slaughter of Cedar the goat shines a light on the ideology of 4-H.
Two activists were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.
Ships, noise, and climate change are killing whales. Here’s how to change that.
My year as a pescetarian did more harm than good.
Bird flu is driving up egg and turkey prices — and killing millions of animals. Why won’t we vaccinate against it?
Over the last decade our understanding of how fish experience pain has greatly advanced, thanks in large part to Sneddon’s pioneering work.
The future of animal welfare will be decided in Asia and Latin America, home to more than two-thirds of the world’s farmed animals.
Through decades of work, Leah Garcés has made life better for animals, farmers, and consumers.