Este jueves 16 de abril | 17:00 CEST
No se pierdan la primera conferencia en español de ICARE:
✨️ IA y derechos de los animales 🐾, con la Dra Silvina Pezzetta
Inscripciones abiertas aquí: luma.com/x0n7wead ✍️
¡Les esperamos!
Your gift can help more advocates get the knowledge and tools they need to act for animals—and until 9 April, it will be doubled. 💜
If you would like to support ICARE's work, you can donate here: icare-animals.org/donate
Looking for resources for your animal advocacy work?
ICARE’s Resource Library keeps growing, and we’ve added new resources across:
📚 recommended readings
⚖️ key concepts for animal rights law
🤖 AI & animals
🌍 legal news about animals
Stronger advocacy starts here: icare-animals.org/resource-library
A month ago, we released ICARE’s first e-book: 📘 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law: A guide to critical terms for animal rights advocates (Vol. 1) . Since then, almost 800 animal advocates have already downloaded it.
🔗 Free download: www.icare-animals.org/publications...
Next Monday: Vegan Rights Litigation in Workplaces & Public Institutions
🗓 2 March 2026 ⏰ 6 pm CET (Paris time)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 Free – registration required: luma.com/trstcw6x
➡️ Join us live and bring your questions:
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🌱 Free Online Lecture: Dr Olga Kikou on 'Plant-Based Policy in the EU: Countering Backlash, Securing Progress'
📅 17 March, 4 PM - 5:30 PM CET 🕓️
🔗 Register to secure your spot: luma.com/dhbnvufi
👩🏫Do you think that animal welfare and wild animal law can meet halfway?
📄Read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #WildAnimalLaw #AnimalWelfareLaw #EULaw #LegalWelfarism #WildAnimals #WildAnimalRights #ConservationLaw #AnimalWelfare y #Posthumanism
🦨 In this paper, Platvoet argues there is common ground than we assume in EU law, showing how wild animal law can include animal welfare concerns. She also explains why wild animal protection remains welfarist, and conditional, and uses posthumanist scholarship to push the legal framework further.🫎
📖Bibliography Recommendation🐺
Animal welfare law is often framed as being about animals under human control: it sets minimum standards of treatment & bans 'unnecessary suffering'. Wild animal law is usually geared towards species & ecosystems, so the welfare of individual animals can be sidelined🦊
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ICARE Seminar: Vegan Rights Litigation 🧑⚖️ 🌱🐮
📅 2 March 2026 🕕 6:00 pm CET 📍 Live on Zoom
🎟 Free registration: luma.com/trstcw6x
with Camille Labchuk, animal rights lawyer & Executive Director of Animal Justice, & Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl, Executive Director of the Vegetarian Society of Denmark
Animal rights need more than goodwill. They need legal knowledge and skills. ⚖️
🦉 ICARE’s Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law (CIARL) On-Demand course is open for enrolment: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand
🎓 Scholarships are available to ensure access regardless of financial means.
Read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💬 Let us know: What does effective plant-based advocacy look like in contexts where collective action is politically constrained?
#Veganuary #PlantBased #Meatless #VeganStudies #Veganism #AnimalEthics #VeganAdvocacy #AnimalAdvocacy #FoodStudies
From everyday food practices to community-building and mutual support networks, this research offers key insights into how dietary change happens beyond familiar narratives.🍚🥬
A must-read if you're interested in global veganism, cultural perspectives on food, and effective advocacy this Veganuary 📖
A key contribution of the paper is the concept of 'dietary publics': communities of vegan advocates and other meatless-food practitioners who share information, discuss food politics, and organise around plant-based diets, often through digitally mediated spaces. 📱
The paper shows how longstanding meatless traditions (including Buddhist vegetarian practices) interact with newer, globally circulating movements and how local cultural, political and social contexts shape advocacy strategies, in a context where collective action is constrained. 🌐
In this article, Gina Song Lopez examines plant-based food and lifestyle advocacy in contemporary China through ethnographic research, combining digital food studies with onsite fieldwork and first-hand accounts.
Bibliography Recommendation | Veganuary Special Edition 🌱📚
🇨🇳 China is one of the world’s most populous countries, so dietary shifts in China matter enormously for animals, people and the planet. 🌏🐼
In Q1/Q2 2026, ICARE will pilot a 1:1 mentorship pool for ARVAN, connecting experienced advocates and practitioners with ICARE alums working on concrete animal advocacy and animal law projects.
📧 If you’d like to join the mentor pool, email us at info@icare-animals.org.
Tell us your thoughts in the comments💬
📖🔗To go further: we’ve just published our free e-book, Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law (Vol. 1): icare-animals.org/publications/key-concepts-vol1
Explore our Resource Library for more key concepts & open-access materials: icare-animals.org/resource-library
Understanding these frameworks won’t make everyone agree, but it helps us be more intentional about our strategic choices (and debate them more clearly).
🤔 Do these differences help explain debates within the animal and #veganadvocacy movement, like the recent and controversial #FarmKind campaign?
🔍 Utilitarian ethics (often associated with Bentham) takes a different path. What matters is reducing overall suffering and increasing overall wellbeing 💭. This lens is more flexible and can support pragmatic, harm-reducing steps, so long as they are expected to improve outcomes in the real world. 🐾
In this carousel, we look at two frameworks:
Kantian ethics (often reflected in abolitionist advocacy). They aim to end #animalexploitation & the way we advocate must be morally acceptable, not just effective. If a tactic cannot be justified by the universalisation test, it crosses a red line.
Should we prioritise incremental wins or hold firm to non-negotiable principles? These strategic debates are often shaped by our moral frameworks, especially Kantian and utilitarian ethics ⚖️.
They help explain why campaigns can also differ in their goals and methods.
Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law — Special Edition: #Veganuary 🌱📚
#Veganism is not a lifestyle or a diet, but an ethical position rejecting animal exploitation and violence 🐮🐔🐟
Yet within #animaladvocacy, we don't always agree on how to #campaign.
Robin Happel (Environmental Lawyer, USA) completed the CIARL on-demand course and shared:
💬 “I really enjoyed the CIARL course and found it very useful as an environmental lawyer.”
✍️ Enrol now at icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand
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
🕎🎄 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
📖 Read the paper 'Automated video-based pain recognition in cats using facial landmarks' by Martvel et al., and let us know what you think: drive.google.com/file/d/1zU8X...
💡 Would you trust AI to assess your cat’s well-being?
#AIandAnimals #AnimalWelfare #CatPainDetection #AIEthics #AnimalRights