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Animal Rights

Here we talk about the rights of animals and what we can do to defend those rights. Some topics include: animal experimentation, the ethics of eating animals and their products, animal used in entertainment, protests, activism, news about animal protection victories.

31k subscribers715 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)392 authors / mosince 2008

r/AnimalRights has 31k members (+13% over the last 12 months). It gets about 715 posts a month from 392 people. Top topics: Animal Rights and Regulations, Animal Cruelty Cases and Animal Shelters & Rescues.

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Size and growth

How r/AnimalRights has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+13%in 12 months · +3.2% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 202631k
Growing31k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/AnimalRights

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+265%vs Sep 2025 · +72% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026715
BusierPeaked at 787 in Aug 2026
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/AnimalRights

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Animal Rights and Regulations1.5%
  2. Animal Cruelty Cases1.2%
  3. Animal Shelters & Rescues1.1%
  4. Animal Abuse Petitions0.8%
  5. Animal Rights0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Charity Navigator
  3. TikTok
  4. RSS
  5. Change

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research