INTERVIEW: How does someone go from witnessing the horrors of a West Yorkshire hatchery to championing the rights of animals through powerful storytelling? We spoke to author and international campaigner Susan Hargreaves about reaching young minds and her graphic novel launch tour.

BLOG: Well-intentioned egg eaters will be unable to appease their consciences from tomorrow as free-range eggs are taken off supermarket shelves. The UK’s largest ever bird flu outbreak has meant chickens have not been allowed outside, a requirement of so-called “high welfare” labelling.

BLOG: Eight very lucky baby chickens have found their way to an animal sanctuary after being found alive in a bag containing thousands of dead birds. Their story made a great ‘feel good’ BBC Leicestershire report, but why aren’t we hearing more about the millions of other chicks who aren’t so lucky?

The UK’s top 10 supermarkets are actively encouraging customers to buy meat products despite recent improvements in the companies’ environmental policies, a new supermarket scorecard by campaign group Feedback reveals.

The European Parliament has voted to ban cages for farmed animals, including egg-laying hens, ducks, and rabbits, following huge public support for the proposed ECI ‘End the Cage Age’ legislation. It’s great news at first glance, but as with anything political, there are conditions.

While the ‘beef’ industry is often thought of as one of the worst greenhouse gas emitters and contributors to rainforest destruction and the ensuing climate crisis, a new report reminds us that other agricultural sectors have a lot to answer for including, not least of all, the UK’s free-range egg producers.

A new initiative aimed at improving the welfare of laying hens gives insights into the strange way that the egg industry conceives of hen welfare. The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) and British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) are collaborating to encourage people to buy a range of egg sizes instead of only large or very large ones, which have become more popular than small and medium-sized eggs. Laying large eggs can be painful and dangerous to the hens.

A ban on baby male chicks being macerated or gassed soon after birth that could spread from Germany to other European countries - that sounds excellent, right? Sadly, it is not nearly far enough and could even be a distraction from the real issues.