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10/09/2026

What does it actually mean when we call an idea “extreme”?

Sometimes the word is warranted. But sometimes it does something else: it ends the argument before we’ve actually examined it.

“Extreme” can describe a position, but it can also end a conversation before the argument begins. From abolition and suffrage to civil rights and animal advocacy, what society considers extreme has…

09/09/2026

For years, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been one of the defining numbers of the climate crisis. The goal, established under the Paris Agreement, has been to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, reducing the likelihood and severity of some of the most dangerous consequences of a rapidly warming planet.

Now, the United Nations is acknowledging something considerably harder to hear.

The world is expected to cross the 1.5°C climate threshold, but that does not make further warming inevitable. Every fraction of a degree still matters—for people, animals, ecosystems, and the choi…

07/09/2026

“You can help one pig, you can pull up a crate, or you can put down the pork.”

For 21 days, activist Michelle Farnham is putting her own body inside a farrowing crate in London’s Trafalgar Square — confronting the public with a fraction of the confinement endured by mother pigs throughout animal agriculture.

In the latest installment of Mission: Abolition, Allie Irwin asks a harder question:

Just what would it take to change your mind?

You can help one pig, you can pull up a crate, or you can put down the pork.

04/09/2026

“The mourning starts now.”

In her latest Mission: Abolition piece, Allie Irwin writes from the Mojave Desert as dove season begins — knowing the birds she watches, feeds, and gives refuge to may become targets just beyond her home.

Just before dawn tomorrow, shotgun shots will pierce the desert air, ricochet off the boulders and set off an echoing crack! … crack! … crack! …

01/09/2026

New in The Listening Lounge: “Texas Is Going Vegan”

Renee King-Sonnen and Jane Velez-Mitchell took a guitar, a sense of humor, and a message of change straight into the heart of cattle country.

This original song was performed at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary — a former Texas cattle ranch that became a sanctuary — making the setting every bit as meaningful as the lyrics.

Take a listen, enjoy the country spirit, and revisit a little piece of movement history with us.

Renee King-Sonnen and Jane Velez-Mitchell bring humor, country spirit, and a vision of change to “Texas Is Going Vegan,” an original song performed at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary.

29/08/2026

A new Voices of the Movement feature is live.

Monique Lukens has spent years bringing animal ethics into spaces where they are often absent — classrooms, school districts, educator unions, and other institutional settings.

Her advocacy has included plant-based school food, humane education, cruelty-free materials, animal experimentation, ethical veganism, and efforts to create space for animal issues within the National Education Association and California Teachers Association.

Not every proposal has passed. That’s part of the story.

Educator, artist, and longtime vegan advocate Monique Lukens is bringing animal ethics into classrooms, unions, and institutional spaces—one proposal, one question, and one ripple at a time.

27/08/2026

There are moments when witnessing something changes the question.

Not Why is this happening?

But What am I going to do about it?

In her latest Mission: Abolition piece, Allie Irwin writes about unexpectedly coming face-to-face with a truck full of animals in the Mojave Desert — and what happens when something we know exists suddenly becomes impossible to look away from.

It was the first time a truckful of animals was in front of me, and it was the last thing I expected that day, down on the corner, out in the street.

26/08/2026

The Humane Herald is opening the door wider for writers interested in news and current events, culture, social justice, animals and the environment, democracy, history, investigations, personal essays, and the places where those subjects collide.

You don’t need a journalism résumé. You don’t need to fit neatly into one of our existing categories. You don’t even need to want a regular writing gig.

Maybe you have a beat you want to follow. Maybe you have the beginnings of a column. Maybe you have exactly one story you need to tell.

We want to hear it.

Throw us the pitch. What are we missing?

Something has been shifting at The Humane Herald. Not dramatically. There was no editorial meeting where someone circled a date on the calendar and declared a new era. It has happened the way some …

20/08/2026

From the Humane Herald’s Listening Lounge:

A look back at conversations with Shelley “Shel” Harrison exploring the Abolition Amendment, legal recognition for other animals, and the political work of challenging their status as property.

These conversations span years — and the questions at their center remain fundamental to the work of The Humane Party today.

The Listening Lounge is a Voices of the Movement series from The Humane Herald, resurfacing music, interviews, spoken word, and other audio worth hearing again.

19/08/2026

“I still get nervous speaking in public, but I will never turn down the opportunity to advocate for veganism. Speaking up for animals is always right and, sometimes, it can get a little weird.”

I still get nervous speaking in public, but I will never turn down the opportunity to advocate for veganism. Speaking up for animals is always right and, sometimes, it can get a little weird.

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