Farmers to fight back against Veganuary - so should we return to ethics?
OPINION: Veganuary is upon us and as is now the tradition, farming organisations like the AHDB are rallying the troops to ‘fight back’. Their weapons: the environment and B12. Does that mean we should shift our focus back to ethics?
Pigs hammered to death at a farm owned by ‘Quality Meat Scotland’ chairman
A new investigation by Animal Equality UK has prompted a criminal investigation after revealing a litany of horrors including piglets being killed with a hammer or slammed on concrete floors and mother pigs with severe uterine prolapses being forced to walk before being shot.
Why feeding cows seaweed to stop them farting as much won’t solve the environmental problem, let alone the ethical one
The news last week that scientists have found that adding seaweed to the diets of cows reduces methane emissions will no doubt be welcomed by the industry, but it’s just one part of a very big puzzle.
'The NFU's Net Zero goal is misleading, flawed and unimplementable', writes Dr Alex Lockwood
In September 2019 the National Farmers’ Union published their Achieving Net Zero: Farming’s 2040 Goal that laid out its plans for making UK farming ‘carbon neutral’, but is it achievable and what would it mean for non-human animals? Dr Alex Lockwood writes.