The arrival of pandas in San Diego might be a 30-second "political palate cleanser" at the end of a CNN broadcast, but, for the pandas, it's a life sentence. After producing a wildly successful and impactful doc film about the cruelty associated with holding another black and

During a NYCLASS press conference regarding Alvin Bragg criminal case against a horse-drawn carriage driver charged with multiple accounts of animal abuse, Executive Director Edita Birnkrant explained why the operation of these carriages in NYC is inherently inhumane. For instance,

By all means, let's continue to intensively confine hundreds of millions of chickens, cows and pigs in factory farms where #avianflu and other viruses can spread like wildfire and mutate into strains that can be transmitted among humans. Governments should have banned factory

When #animalrights activists attempted to deliver a #KangaroosAreNotShoes message to the Chairman of the Board of Adidas, Thomas Rabe, at his Bertelsmann Stiftung office building in NYC, the #Bertelsmann doorman assaulted us, sending one activist to the emergency room. If this is

Does adidas have a moral compass? For years, advocacy groups around the world have pled with #adidas to stop killing wild kangaroos and stealing their skin for football cleats. Among their victims are lactating mothers and the joeys in their pouches. If Nike, Puma and New

During the summer, Happy, the Bronx Zoo elephant who has been held captive for 50 years, spends her days outdoors, but she hasn't been seen in almost two weeks. The Nonhuman Rights Project Project, an advocacy group working to #FreeHappy and send her to a sanctuary, is worried about her

The CEO of Adidas, Bjorn Gulden, publicly acknowledged that the nightly kangaroo hunts in Australia are “terrible,” yet #adidas continues to fabricate cleats from skin stolen from wild kangaroos.   Activists with Animal Rights Collective Portland (home to adidas U.S.

In a NY Times essay about how our hypocritical we are for treating dogs with kindness and farm animals with cruelty, Nicholas Kristof puts our appalling behavior into historical context: "Just as today we wonder how people like Thomas Jefferson could have been so morally obtuse as

In response to a 1.5 year global campaign led by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT), luxury fashion group Max Mara has announced a #furfree policy: "Max Mara has no intention of introducing fur into any upcoming collection.” In response to the news, CAFT said: "Max

An unhinged customer at the adidas flagship store in NYC attacked a group of advocates protesting animal cruelty. #Adidas customers and security guards who witnessed the outburst were shocked and confused. Why was this man so enraged? #KangaroosAreNotShoes

Despite pleas from The Humane League advocates, Crumbl Cookies continues to source eggs from hens packed into cages so tightly they can't spread their wings. With over $1 billion in annual revenues, #Crumbl can choose a more humane option to prevent these birds from enduring a

Over the past 15 years, New York Times Opinion has published editorials in support of NYC's horse-drawn carriage trade. In light of the evidence demonstrating that their operation in NYC is inhumane and unsafe, will the opinion page editors reconsider the paper's perspective on the issue?

Despite an admission from its CEO that the nightly kangaroo hunts are “terrible” and the availability of high performance, #crueltyfree alternatives to kangaroo skin, adidas continues to make football cleats out of “k-leather.” How does board chairman Thomas Rabe (who is also

During a music festival in Germany, an #AnimalRights activist stood in front of the stage with a #KangaroosAreNotShoes message for the event's sponsor, Bertelsmann, because the company's CEO Thomas Rabe is Chairman of the Board of Adidas, which shoots kangaroos in the face and

Activism works. Three weeks ago, the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) launched a campaign against luxury fashion designer Anne Fontaine over the company's refusal to stop using real animal fur. In response to dozens of protests led by #animalrights activists around

We are a community in need of reckoning, accountability & bravery. Donny’s exquisite essay is a start but will offenders be open to the message? Will those who are silent - particularly non-Jews - speak up, drown out the loudest voices & show Jews in the movement we aren’t alone?

As a member of the board of Adidas, former Olympian Jackie Joyner Kersee can call on the company to stop slaughtering wild kangaroos for their skin. Will Jackie Joyner Kersee’s Winning in Life align her actions with the values espoused by her charitable foundation? #KangaroosAreNotShoes #Adidas