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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

⚖️ How does the legal system you work in shape what is possible for animals? In Module 4 of our free, self-paced CIARL On-Demand course, Dr Eva Bernet Kempers & Dr Joe Wills compare animals’ legal status across civil and common law systems. ➡️ Apply: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What ethical ideas shape arguments for animals’ rights? In Module 3 of our free, self-paced CIARL On-Demand course, Professor Lori Gruen explores moral theories shaping animal rights, their influence on law & policy, and critiques of traditional approaches. Apply: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What does it mean to talk about animals having rights in law? ⚖️🐾 🎓 In Module 1 of our free, self-paced CIARL On-Demand Course, Dr Silvina Pezzetta explores animal rights vs welfare, sentience, current legal protections and key global challenges. 🔗 Apply: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

CIARL On-Demand is now free. Build your knowledge of Animal Rights Law and strengthen practical legal, research and advocacy skills through 8 expert-led, self-paced modules. Apply now: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalRights

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What if 'chic' meant challenging the rules that make exploitation appear ordinary? ⚖️🐷 💬 What would you add? 'Kind of chic to __________ for animals.' 👇️

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📖 Read the full piece: open.substack.com/pub/icareani... 👉️ And if you haven't yet, subscribe to our Substack: icareanimals.substack.com

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Opening Cages, Closing Loopholes

What the EU Livestock Strategy and Protein Action Plan mean for animals

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The EU has just opened some important doors on animal welfare reform. But will they lead to real protection for animals—or to better packaging for the livestock sector? 🇪🇺 🦉✍️ In ICARE’s new analysis, we take a close look at the European Commission’s EU Livestock Strategy and Protein Action Plan 🔍️👀

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join ICARE on 25–26 June 2026 for our Constitutional Animal Rights Law Online Workshop. Online via Zoom 25–26 June 2026 16:00–20:30 CEST each day Registration is open until 10 June. More information and registration: icare-animals.org/carl-workshop

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tomorrow on Zoom: Investigating and Litigating Animal Rights Violations in Slaughterhouses With Caroline Lanty (L214) and Sabina Bravo (Animal Law Focus) 🐔🐮🐷 📅 15 May 🕔 17:00–18:30 CEST (Paris time) 💻 Online via Zoom ⚠️ Registration is required to attend ✍️ Register here: luma.com/xutwv1j2

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🚨 Final week to register for ICARE’s Food Systems course — Registration closes on 10 May. Governing the Food Systems Transition: Law and Policy for Plant-Based Futures will run online from 26 May to 30 June 2026. ⚖️🍽️🫘 Register here: www.icare-animals.org/foodsystems-...

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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!

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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...

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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: luma.com/trstcw6x

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🌱 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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🦨 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.🫎

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📖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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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

💌 Our love language? Knowledge that empowers animal advocates. Subscribe to our newsletter at icare-animals.org/contact-us & never miss our updates! 📩

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🎉 Voting is now OPEN, and ICARE is on Project for Awesome 2026! 🎉 🗳️ Now, we need your help! Voting takes less than a minute: 1️⃣ Click the link: projectforawesome.com/videos/icare... 2️⃣ Sign in (quick email confirmation) 3️⃣ Click 'Vote for charity' Every vote counts. 🙏

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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 📖

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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. 📱

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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. 🌐

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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. 🌏🐼

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🔍 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. 🐾

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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

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ICARE submission to the European Commission public consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation — ICARE

Overview This submission responds to the European Commission’s 12-week public consultation ( 19 September–17 December 2025 ) supporting the impact assessment for a revision of EU on-farm animal…

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🕎🎄 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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

📖 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

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This research brings us closer to tools that can support veterinarians, carers, and guardians in identifying pain while reminding us of a deeper question: How much more do we need to understand animals to respect them? 🐈

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🎥 Recent studies have introduced fully automated systems that operate directly on video rather than on single images. This allows AI to capture the dynamic movements associated with discomfort that humans may overlook.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🤖 AI and Animals 🐾 New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Recognising species-typical flourishing challenges us to imagine a multispecies legal order rooted in respect and justice.🧑‍⚖️ It asks us to take animals seriously as beings whose lives matter in their own right. What would flourishing look like for a trout, a cat, or an elephant? 🐈‍⬛🐘🐟

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This goes beyond avoiding cruelty or ticking minimum welfare boxes. It means asking: Are we giving animals the space, social bonds, stimulation they need to thrive? Are our environments, institutions, and laws designed so that animals can exercise their species-specific capabilities?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

A dolphin flourishes when they can swim freely and live in a social pod. A chicken needs dust to bathe in, room to scratch & perch, and the rhythms of daylight. Flourishing means enabling each being to develop their own way of living, in line with who they are, not with what humans want them to be.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📚 Drawing on the work of Nussbaum, the idea of species-typical flourishing calls for a shift in perspective. Instead of applying a universal standard of wellbeing, we need to recognise that justice means securing the capabilities each animal needs to live a life worthy of their dignity.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Help build the #legalchange #animals need to be more than property this #GivingTuesday. ICARE, a volunteer-only women-led org, has trained 150 #advocates from 50 countries through 4 courses this year. Our founder matches gifts up to €1,000 until 31/12. Donate: icare-animals.org/donate #AnimalRights

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🫎 The result is a thought-provoking proposal. However, his theory does not reject hunting. What do you think of this contradiction? 🧐 📖 Read the paper and join the conversation!: drive.google.com/file/d/1wPSF... These debates are crucial for shaping a non-speciest, future-looking animal ethics.

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