Animal Rights Tour

<p>Host Carly introduces the new season of the Animal Rights Tour, exploring existing and proposed laws that grant rights to animals and highlighting two places that have already done so.</p> <p>The episode explores the...

<p>In this season finale, Carly reviews Judge Athar Minallah's landmark ruling in Pakistan that affirmed legal rights for Kavan the elephant.</p> <p>The decision led to Kavan’s transfer to the Elephant Nature Park...

<p>Judge Maria Alejandra Mauricio ruled that Cecilia, a lonely chimpanzee, should be recognised in law because animals—especially great apes—are sentient beings with social, emotional, and cognitive lives. </p>...

<p>New York’s Court of Appeals denied habeas corpus to Happy the elephant, but two judges dissented. Justice Wilson argued that an animal’s qualities, not a legal label of 'person', should determine access to rights...

<p>Meet Happy, an elephant at New York's Bronx Zoo. Happy was captured in Thailand as a calf and has lived at the Bronx Zoo for decades, often alone for years. An animal rights group sought a writ of habeas corpus to...

<p>This episode outlines three reasons to support granting rights to animals: their intrinsic value as living beings, their sentience and capacity to suffer, and the importance of kindness to animals for maintaining our...

<p>This episode introduces the debate over giving animals legal rights, explaining why most people never questioned using animals for food or research and why animal welfare rules don’t go far enough.</p> <p>Carly...

<p>In this episode, Carly introduces animal rights law and explains what animal rights might mean, such as the rights to life and freedom from experimentation.</p> <p>The episode explores which animals might qualify...

<p >Season 1's finale reviews the progress and limits of animal welfare laws—how they have improved lives for billions yet still leave many animals in poor conditions. It contrasts the prevailing welfare paradigm, which...

<p >This episode explains how the Five Freedoms, developed from the Brambell Committee, reshaped animal protection laws worldwide and distinguishes between anti-cruelty statutes and laws promoting animal welfare, with...

<p >The Brambell Committee reviewed farm animal welfare, set practical rules (minimum cage sizes, pen space, companionship, food and water) and recommended a statutory advisory body.</p> <p >The Committee’s work led to...

<p >Professor Rogers Brambell and his Committee showed that animals feel pain, fear, frustration, and pleasure, and that their experiences are often similar to ours. Their scientific findings emphasised that actions...

<p >Professor F.W. Rogers Brambell led a 1964 Committee inquiry into animal welfare on intensive farms, investigating how factory farming had transformed traditional animal husbandry.</p> <p >The Brambell Report...

<p >Ruth Harrison’s 1964 book Animal Machines exposed the harsh realities of intensive factory farming, documenting the treatment of calves, hens, pigs, and the use of drugs and growth stimulants.</p> <p >With a...

<p >In this episode of the Animal Rights Tour, we explore the early history of anti-cruelty laws: Martin's Law (1822), New York's 1829 statute, the founding of the SPCA/RSPCA (1824/1840) and the ASPCA (1866), and...