- Julie Fershtman Presents at the 2025 National Conference on Equine Law on Products Liabilityby Julie I. Fershtman on January 26, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Julie Fershtman is speaking at the National Conference on Equine Law in Lexington, Kentucky on May 1, 2025. Her topic is Products Liability in the Equine Industry. Read More › Tags: Animal Abuse, Sales/Disputes
- Webinar on Equine Law Essentialsby Julie I. Fershtman on October 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Foster Swift shareholder Julie Fershtman is a speaker in a national CLE webinar program titled “Equine Law Essentials: Liability, Risk Management, and Tax Strategies.” Read More › Tags: News & Events
- Avoiding Disputes: Fershtman Presents Equine Liability Webinar for USHJAby Julie I. Fershtman on June 3, 2024 at 4:00 pm
The United States Hunter-Jumper Association (“USHJA”) has asked Foster Swift shareholder, Julie Fershtman, to present a webinar on equine-related liability issues. Her first presentation is titled: “Understanding Equine Liability and How to Avoid Disputes with Insurers.” Read More › Tags: Liability
- Review Your Liability Insurance on Insurance Awareness Dayby Julie I. Fershtman on June 27, 2022 at 4:00 pm
June 28th is National Insurance Awareness Day. Certainly, people in the equine industry may be aware that they have liability insurance, but they sometimes forget to assess whether they have the right insurance. National Insurance Awareness Day offers an annual reminder to review, understand, and update your insurance policies. Read More › Tags: Boarding, Compliance, Insurance, Liability, Workers' Compensation
- Latest Word on “Dangerous Land” Under State Equine Activity Liability Actsby Julie I. Fershtman on March 27, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Courts nationwide have grappled with the meaning of equine activity liability laws – especially their exceptions. Exceptions in the laws are important as they could potentially allow certain lawsuits to proceed. Although all of the equine activity liability acts (referred to as “EALAs”) differ, many share common characteristics. Several include an exception for a “dangerous latent condition of the land.” This article explores how the exception has been faring in the courts. Read More › Tags: Boarding, Lawsuit, Liability
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- The Trans Rights Issue: Equality Claims and Belief Claimsby Gary L. Francione on August 2, 2023 at 5:16 pm
Note: Principle Five of the Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights maintains human rights and nonhuman rights are inextricably intertwined and that: Abolitionists reject all forms of human discrimination, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism—just as they reject speciesism. Many Abolitionists have asked me about what the Abolitionist position is about transphobia. The answer Related posts: Woke Animal Rights Means No Animal Rights, Part 2: Wokeabulary Human Rights and Animal Rights: Perfect Together Veganism: It’s Not Just a Animal Rights Issue You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Vegan Society “Ambassador” Claims That Promoting Veganism as a Moral Baseline “Damages” Animals Thought of the Day: Human Rights and Animal Rights–Inextricably Intertwined
- ESSAY ON VEGAN PHILOSOPHY PUBLISHED IN THINKby Gary L. Francione on July 20, 2023 at 2:22 pm
My essay, Are You a Vegan or Are you an Extremist?, published in Think (Cambridge University Press/The Royal Institute of Philosophy) is now available online. Related posts: “Philosophy Bites” Audio Interview on Abolition Published My Interview On Philosophy Bites Vegan Philosophy in Spain! Guest Essay: Dear Vegan Feminists, Where Are You? An Open Letter Essay on Domestication and Pet Ownership
- Animal Advocacy and Effective Altruism: A Review of ‘The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does’by Gary L. Francione on July 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm
By Prof. Gary Francione Effective Altruism (EA) maintains that those of us who are more affluent should give more to solve the problems of the world, and we should give to the organisations and individuals who are effective at solving those problems. There are a not inconsiderable number of criticisms that can be and have Related posts: Effective Animal Rights Advocacy—in Three Easy Steps Upcoming Abolitionist Approach Podcast on Effective Animal Rights Advocacy: A Preview The Death of Activism and the Rise of Branding Spectacle in Animal Advocacy Violent Imagery in Animal Advocacy Animal Rights: Marginalized By The “Animal Movement”
- Is Eating Plants as Morally Objectionable as Eating Animals?by Gary L. Francione on January 19, 2023 at 7:34 pm
On my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, I often receive comments to the effect that we cannot morally distinguish animal foods from plant foods. Some comments are made by those who maintain that plants are sentient and, therefore, are not morally different from sentient nonhumans. This argument, which ranks up there with “But Hitler was a vegetarian,” is tiresome, pathetic, and Related posts: A Frequently Asked Question: What About Plants? Eating Animals: Our “Choice”? “Happy Meat:” Making Humans Feel Better About Eating Animals Is the Domestication of Animals Morally Justifiable? The Real Reason For Interest in Plant Sentience Has Nothing to Do With Plants
- Why I Did Not Sign the Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitationby Gary L. Francione on October 4, 2022 at 12:48 pm
I was invited on several occasions to sign the Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation. I appreciate that the drafters asked me to sign but, for the following reasons, I am unable to do so. First, the Declaration Does Not Reject All Animal Use What is the end — the ultimate goal — envisaged by the Declaration? The Declaration purports to seek Related posts: Enabling Animal Exploitation The Problem: “Animal Advocates” Who Promote Animal Exploitation Welfare Reform Campaigns, Single-Issue Campaigns, and Animal Exploitation: Perfect Together Blessing Exploitation Imagine If There Were a Real “Animal Rights” Movement
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- Turning Down the Ocean: Human-created Noiseby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 1:22 am
Aine Dillon Many think of the ocean as a place with peaceful sounds. Some even use the sounds of waves to fall asleep. However, not everyone knows that the ocean, under the surface, is actually very loud. Today, the ocean is almost deafening for marine animals. Marine wildlife use their sense of sound as much
- Child Custody Approach Used to Resolve Dispute over Ownership of Elephant in Indiaby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 1:08 am
Megan Edwards Animals inhabit a peculiar position in the world, particularly with respect to their relationship with people. On one hand, people have responsibilities and obligations to animals—this is evident from the almost 120 countries worldwide that have some form of basic animal cruelty laws. On the other hand, animals are considered peoples’ legal property,
- Vegetarianism As A Tool For Environmental Healthby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 1:06 am
Michael Schwartz In most cases, when people tell their stories of how they become a vegetarian or a vegan, it comes from the idea of moral vegetarianism. The meaning behind the phrase moral vegetarianism can be interpreted with a plain meaning because its definition is exactly what the expression sounds like. The basis behind the
- Keystone Species: The Key to a Healthy Environmentby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 1:04 am
Madison Roberts What is an ecosystem? According to National Geographic, “An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms…. work together to form a bubble of life.” While every part of the ecosystem is important, certain species are more integral than others. Without these integral species the ecosystem they reside in
- Title: The Duality of Environmental Concerns and Animal Welfareby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 1:01 am
Marissa O’Connor While both environmental concerns and animal welfare concerns seem to encompass one another, groups respective of the two interests often clash due to competing values and different prioritization. Generally, groups concerned with animal welfare and ethics place the well-being and interests of sentient individuals at the center of their concerns. Conversely, groups
- U.S. District Court Upholds Constitutionality of San Francisco Fur Banby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 12:58 am
Nicolette Merino In March 2021, The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed The International Fur Trade Federation’s constitutional challenge to San Francisco’s ban on the sale of fur products without leave to file an amended complaint. The City’s fur ban legislation is an example of the growing opposition towards animal fur
- Baiting Sharks: How Shark Fishing Devastates Dolphin Populationsby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 12:53 am
Emily Lively Globally, humans slaughter approximately one hundred thousand dolphins annually. Humans kill dolphins for a variety of reasons, including cultural purposes, human consumption, and to eliminate competition for fish. However, a far lesser-known use of dolphin meat accounts for the largest killing of dolphins worldwide. Currently, seventeen countries slaughter dolphins for use as shark
- Fur Farming: An Unnecessary and Cruel Industryby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 12:48 am
Danielle Maffei Around one hundred million animals are killed annually in the fur trading industry, and they are slaughtered in horribly cruel ways. Animals such as beavers, chinchillas, foxes, minks, rabbits, raccoons and even dogs and cats are purposely bred and slaughtered for their fur in this trading system, and they are confined in small
- The Link Between Domestic Violence and Animal Crueltyby animalblawg on April 27, 2021 at 12:44 am
Gabrielle Scibetta With families forced to stay home as the pandemic shut down the nation last March, pet sales and adoptions reached new heights. One month into the stay-at-home order, pet sales increased 34% than the year prior (Shelter Animals Count: The National Database). While many have used this unprecedented time to welcome animals
- Is Cruelty Free makeup really Cruelty Free?by animalblawg on April 26, 2021 at 8:08 pm
Madelin Pereira Is Cruelty-Free makeup really Cruelty-Free? Makeup is a billion-dollar business. However, some consumers want to make sure that the products that they use are not tested on animals. Worldwide, there are four organizations that give out licenses to brands so that the consumer market can be guaranteed that the products they are using