Footage obtained by investigators working for Surge of a pig farm near Scarborough, UK, has revealed shocking levels of suffering, injuries and flagrant disregard for animal welfare by workers, prompting several leading UK supermarkets and Red Tractor to drop the farm.

The UN’s recently launched ‘decade on ecosystem restoration’ project says that the world must restore and reforest an area equivalent in size to China to prevent ecosystem collapse. One of the challenges they say is finding the imagination to come up with solutions, yet from their own ideas, one source of land for rewilding is conspicuously absent: animal agriculture.

Next week, the leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies will gather in Cornwall for the G7 Summit. Animal activists will be there to greet them.

Recent data suggests that only 14% of the UK’s rivers are of a good ecological standard – and none are of a good chemical standard – due to sewage discharges and agricultural and industrial chemicals entering the water system. Run-off from agricultural industries is responsible for 40% of damage to waterways, according to the UK’s Environment Agency.

France - where eating animals is seen by many as essential to haute cuisine - is to end its love affair with meat should proposals for new climate legislation go through. Opposition is fierce but expected, yet the bill also has surprising support from younger voters.

The tragic shooting of two brown bears at a zoo may have been an unusual and apparently unavoidable incident, but it is a stark reminder that animals do not belong in captivity.

This Friday, May 28th, a new touring installation will launch in Cardiff to get the UK talking about eating meat and its impacts on health and the environment. A new exhibition on the same issue will launch simultaneously at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History.

Many people aren’t aware of what snares are, or may immediately think of a type of drum. Simply put, snares are thin wire nooses designed to catch animals by tightening around their neck or leg. The animal is held by the snare until the person who set it returns to kill them, or they die of their injuries or are killed by a predator. They might escape, but if injured they may still die later of those injuries.

Europe’s legislature has come to its senses and thrown out Amendment 171, a draft bill that would have effectively censored producers of vegan dairy alternatives at the behest of animal industry lobbyists.

This Friday, May 28th, a new touring installation will launch in Cardiff to get the UK talking about eating meat and its impacts on health and the environment. A new exhibition on the same issue will launch simultaneously at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History.

BREAKING NEWS: Activists from Animal Rebellion have this morning blockaded four distribution centres supplying what they say is around 1,300 McDonalds restaurants across the UK.

Farmers in Australia are ‘uniting’ to demand that the government step in and stop vegan food brands from using terms like ‘meat’, ‘chicken’, ‘beef’ and so on with accusations of misleading marketing and a lack of transparency. They want people to know the truth about where their meat comes from, but not the whole truth.