by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog
We treat animals as legal objects. We should treat them as legal subjects instead. You may believe that the law protects animals from harm in the United States, but that belief is false. There are few meaningful legal protections for most animals, and little if any...
by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 16, 2023 | Animals, Blog, Children's Books
I felt honored and touched and full of wonder as I watched a family of 10+ majestic elephants walk gracefully across a dry riverbed in a Namibian desert. These creatures are rare and precious and absolutely amazing. These were definitely not THINGS or OBJECTS walking,...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 21, 2023 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front
There are many reasons to feel despair, hopelessness, and powerlessness in today’s world. Wars, injustices, inequalities, diseases, sustainability issues, climate change, racism, speciecism, species extinction, and countless others. (I talk about some of them in my...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 9, 2022 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front, vegan
It is vitally important that we set clear, specific and achievable goals, set a time horizon for their implementation, and then unite around these goals and focus our actions on putting them into practice. Change is happening, but not fast enough. We are not united,...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 9, 2022 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front, Online Marketing
Na ostatnim Marszu dla Wyzwolenia Zwierząt, jeden z przechodniów zaczepił mnie i zapytał o co właściwie nam chodzi. Nie był to żaden atak, tylko szczera ciekawość. Nie pamiętam dokładnie co odpowiedziałam, jakiś ogólnik, typu, że jest to że jest marsz wyzwolenia...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 8, 2022 | Activism, Blog, Front, vegan
Don’t know what the Plant Treaty is? It’s okay. I only recently learned about it, too! It’s an incredibly important initiative that sets ambitious goals to slow the environmental degradation of our planet and the warming of the climate that is caused...