Where to start
If you’re new to this website and don’t know where to begin exploring its contents, here are some suggestions about what you can find and where you may want to look first depending on your interests.
Looking for specific information?
You may use our search tool (which you’ll find at the top right on any of our pages). You can also take a look at our website map, where you’ll find the location of all the pages on our site, complete with access links.
Looking for ways to help?
Animals are always in need of people who want to do something for them, so thank you! You may go directly to our Defending Animals section, or, more specifically, to the What you can do do or the Collaborate with Animal Ethics page. From there, you can visit other parts of our website, where we explain how animals can be aided, including our sections about how animals can be helped in nature and how to reject animal exploitation.
Do you want to have a deeper knowledge of animal ethics, or other related issues?
If you’re going to read just one thing, consider this general introduction. If you’re willing to explore the issue a bit more, it may be useful for you to take a look at the general texts in the various sections on this site. More specifically, we recommend reading the following texts for each of the topics:
- In the ethics section, it’s important to begin on the main page pertaining to speciesism. Then take a look at the pages linked at the bottom of that article to learn more about the arguments against speciesism.
- In the sentience section, you can read the text about the criteria for recognizing sentience, and then look at the text about what beings are conscious.
- We strongly recommend reading the text about the relevance of sentience (which links to others explaining why we should give moral consideration to sentient beings, rather than living beings, ecosystems or species).
- The animals in nature section is a very important one, as many people are unaware of the importance of this issue. Due to this, we highly recommend reading the texts about why wild animal suffering matters, about the situation of animals in the wild and about helping animals in the wild. If you want to have a deeper understanding of this issue, we would also recommend that you read the population dynamics and animal suffering
- In the animal exploitation section you can peruse the different introductory texts on the use of animals for food, clothing, experimentation, entertainment, work, decoration or as companions. It would also be important not to neglect the page about veganism.
Once you look at these pages, you may have a good idea of where to proceed as the contents of our pages are often interconnected. We also share posts regularly on Facebook and Twitter that reference our website content and related topics in contemporary news.
You may want to expend a more significant amount of time reading supplementary texts. Remember, also, that many pages include a number of references which will allow you to look for more information and data about each of the issues.
Are you an animal advocate interested in having a strong basis upholding your arguments and outreach work?
Feel free to check the website map and use the information on this site as it will be beneficial for you. We will also be happy to provide help developing content for a website, leaflets or other materials.
Are you a researcher or an academic?
You can follow the suggestions above below concerning what particular content may be more interesting to you, and you may also want to consider how we can help you to undertake your research. We will be happy to welcome you too if you consider joining our research team, and you can let us know if there’s any other way you think we could collaborate.