OPINION: Following Animal Rebellion’s recent action at Harrods and other upscale supermarkets in which activists poured out several pints of milk onto the shop floor and occupied dairy aisles, Animal Rebellion co-founder Dan Kidby got invited onto Good Morning Britain. But despite some issues with the segment, there was a notable change in tenor in the debate compared to how similar ones have gone in the past.

NEWS: The owner of an animal sanctuary who took in two escaped cows has been arrested on charges of grand larceny. Tracy Murphy, who runs Asha’s Farm Sanctuary in Newfane, New York state, was charged yesterday after she came across two cows wandering on their own several weeks ago and took them to Asha’s to be looked after.

FACT CHECK: The meat lobby has been up in arms since Oxfordshire County Council voted on Tuesday in favour of its historic plant-based meals motion, throwing about accusations of unfair treatment of those who choose to eat the body parts of dead animals. But is there any substance to their argument?

Campaigners are standing at the precipice of what they believe will be a landmark first legal action against any government. We caught up with Humane Being and the Scrap campaign who, together with co-claimant veterinarian Dr Alice Borough and with the help of high-profile human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield QC, have just issued a ‘last chance’ warning prior to launching a case that will finally hold to account the UK Government for the grave threat posed by factory farming.

The bodies of 55,000 pigs including breeding sows and piglets are still being recovered three weeks after the fire at the Alt Tellin farm and biogas facility in northeastern Germany, with ensuing protests against plans to rebuild. But even before the tragedy of March 30, the site had long been the subject of legal controversies and demonstrations from both local interest groups and animal protection activists.

Animal protection law firm Advocates for Advocates is leading the way once again in the fight against the UK government’s controversial anti-protest bill, gathering together more than 30 animal justice groups including Surge in signing an open letter voicing our collective opposition. Here’s everything you need to know.

The UK’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill has passed its first vote in the House of Commons, bringing us closer to a series of legislative changes that could see sentences of up to ten years handed out simply for causing ‘serious’ inconvenience and annoyance. The possible implications for animal rights activists and campaigners are grave - this is what you can do today to #KillTheBill.

It is the kind of story we can all get behind: a small group of activists with a big vision - and even bigger hearts – enlists the help of a high-profile lawyer to take on the Government and present a legal challenge that could very well change the future for humans, non-human animals and the planet. In the first of our Grassroots Focus series, we spoke to David Finney, Jane Tredgett and Peta Smith, volunteers at Humane Being, about the launch of the pioneering Scrap Factory Farming campaign.