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?

OPINION: Primetime spectacle I’m a Celeb received a massive 12,000 complaints to regulators in the same week that Bear Grylls expressed regret for killing animals on his survival shows. The British public said no to fox hunting, but are we turning a blind eye to another bloodsport on our screens?

Outspoken musician Ted Nugent has a history of expressing controversial opinions, whether it be to call Obama a “subhuman mongrel” or argue that the US should have done to Iraq what it did to Nagasaki. Now the avid hunter has invoked the anti-vegan crop deaths argument once again, despite the fact that his son and close friend are both vegans.

Norwegian food group Kavli has washed its hands of St Helen’s Farm dairy and its stake in Yorkshire Dairy Goats, the supplier at the centre of an animal welfare scandal uncovered by Surge in 2020, selling it all back to its original owners.

BLOG: Prolific chicken abuser KFC recently paid off social media influencer ‘Niko’ and publisher JOE to give viewers an insight into conditions at a UK chicken farm as part of its ‘behind the bucket’ ad campaign. What we saw instead was a bucket of lies.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has voted against a bill that would have made hunting with dogs illegal in line with the rest of the UK, leaving animal protection campaigners “staggered”.

OPINION: The price of chickens in supermarkets has been steadily declining to the point where life is worth just a few pounds. But can there ever be an appropriate price, and is there a problem with our regard for life as reflected in recent media coverage? Claire Hamlett discusses.

GUEST ARTICLE: With millions of salmon and other marine species farmed and slaughtered every year in the UK and with relatively few protections as revealed by recent ground-breaking investigations, Abigail Penny, executive director of Animal Equality UK, talks us through their latest campaign to keep a closer eye on the industry.

Spain is the latest European country to pass new legislation recognising the sentience of ‘pets’ and wild animals, paving the way for welfare reforms, but with no mention of bullfighting or changes to its status as a protected cultural asset.

A new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has warned that gene editing could exacerbate “some unethical breeding practices”.

Defra and Crufts organisers The Kennel Club have warned people to be on the lookout for unscrupulous cat and dog sellers this Christmas. So-called ‘petfishing’ might be on the rise, but why shop when you can adopt?

The UK government and authorities responsible for monitoring animal welfare are allowing fish slaughter cruelty to go unnoticed and “without proper oversight”, according to The Humane League UK.