Animal Rights

How FarmVille 2 Celebrates Capitalism and Animal Exploitation

Article
Luiza Dubicka
27/11/2020
14 minutes to read

FarmVille 2 draws heavily on cultural scripts which normalise the exploitation of animals, thus celebrating capitalism. Through a speciesist representation of human-nonhuman animal relations, FarmVille 2 perpetuates oppressive models of practice.

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Genesis Butler’s Online and Offline Animal Rights Activist Movement

Article
Luiza Dubicka
10/10/2020
12 minutes to read

Genesis Butler, a young animal rights activist, uses her digital skills to bring about change in the offline world. But what is the relation between online and offline activism? And is it really slacktivism?

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Wakker Dier: animal rights activism in the Netherlands

Article
Claudia Gerards
26/11/2019
17 minutes to read

Some meat comes from animals that had a terrible life. In protest, organization Wakker Dier went viral with a campaign in which they followed supermarket home delivery trucks. But how did they achieve virality?