Animal Justice Project Senior Campaigner Ayrton Cooper reveals the truth behind apparently ‘kinder’ calf rearing operations in the UK.

The mainstream media revels in the militant vegan versus farmer headlines, but is there more to it? Academic and author Dr Alex Lockwood explains why media bias is very real.

So we covered five simple steps to going vegan, but what about staying that way? It’s not so easy, but there’s definitely a process.

‘Baby steps’ and ‘personal journey’ are phrases we hear a lot when we talk about vegetarianism not being enough. But is it really a good first step towards veganism? Is there a fallacy at the root of the vegetarian transition?

They’re cute, fluffy and kids absolutely adore them - but what happens to classroom-hatched chicks after their two weeks is up? The reality isn’t nearly so cute, especially for the boys.

St Helen's Farm appears to have given up on social media completely, no doubt reeling from the backlash they received following the Far Marsh Farm goat abuse scandal. When your products are taken off the shelves of all but one of the major UK supermarket chains, and your reputation has been forever tarnished, what else would you do but try to start again?

The role of fish in the diet continues to be a topic of scientific study and debate. So, as Dr Shireen Kassam from Plant-Based Health Professionals UK asks, do humans need to eat fish for health?

Yes, of course we should care, but does a fish’s capacity to suffer truly have a bearing on the ethical discussion? We take a look first at the science behind fish pain before delving a little deeper into the question of whether a being has to feel pain in the same way we do for them not to be killed needlessly.

Last weekend saw a day of action centred around Far Marsh Farm, the supposed former supplier to St Helen’s Farm that was exposed by Surge for subjecting the goats there to unfathomable cruelty. Yet despite this, international coverage, celebrity support and more than 80,000 signatures on our petition, we are still no closer to re-homing any of the goats. Here’s an update on everything so far…

We cast our eye over the past 12 months, including another harrowing investigation from Animal Justice Project, to get a picture of duck farming in the UK.

Following on from our recent video on subsidies - Why a cheeseburger can cost less than fruit - Surge project manager Tatiana von Rheinbaben delves deeper into UK farming subsidies pre- and post-Brexit.

Over the last few decades, hundreds of human pathogens have emerged at a rate unprecedented in human history. Emerged from where? Mostly from animals, says Dr Michael Greger in our first Surge guest blog. Part of the Not If, But When campaign.