Spotlight: An Inside Look at Asian Wet Markets

In recent months following the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the world has been introduced to 传统市场, better known as “street markets” or “wet markets”. They are places common across Asia for all things perishable, such as fruits, vegetables, and – most notably – animals, dead or alive.

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Announcing HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene

We are thrilled to announce that our just-launched Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for our forthcoming book, HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, surpassed our initial funding goal in just over 72 hours. HIDDEN is an unflinching book of photography about our conflict with non-human animals around the globe, as depicted through the lenses of thirty award-winning photojournalists...
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Seeing the Animals... and Ourselves

Almost every hour brings astonishing news about the unrelenting toll of the coronavirus. As it engulfs countries and upends billions of lives, COVID-19 is shattering assumptions about the durability of public health systems, economies, and humans’ adaptability. It’s also revealing the limits of technology in containing a disease that began in non-human animals...
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Carol J. Adams: A Pioneer in Animal Advocacy & Trailblazer in Women’s Rights

From her study near Dallas, Texas, tucked within stacks of notes, files, and various translated editions of her books, author and activist, Carol J. Adams, talks of a time when her work was not so well-received. Between faint barks from rescue-dogs Inky and Holly, Adams speaks of how her now-famous book, The Sexual Politics of Meat...
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The Sounds of a Slaughterhouse

The four of us were in an unmarked van, parked in plain sight at the center of an industrialized pig slaughterhouse in Taiwan. To our left, multiple loading docks busily received truck after truck of live pigs. To our right, a single open doorway framed a steady line of carcasses...
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