BLOG: In case you missed it, the RSPB - one of Britain’s foremost animal protection charities - advised its members to lure badgers to electric fences using sweet treats. The reaction from other groups was rightly damning, but once again it demonstrates the insidious nature of speciesism amongst our most hallowed animal-loving organisations.

NEWS: Mass use of preventative antibiotics on farms could lead to a pandemic far worse than Covid-19, campaigners from the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics coalition have warned this week.

NEWS: More than a third of people in the UK are interested in becoming vegan, according to a new survey, with 36 per cent believing that eating plant-based is an “admirable thing to do”.

NEWS: The Italian Senate today voted to approve changes to a budget law that will see the country’s 10 remaining mink farms closed within six months and a permanent ban on fur farming throughout Italy.

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?

Famed scientist Jane Goodall and Animal Save Movement are among those to amplify calls to end farm animal gifting to people in developing countries via charities such as Oxfam, World Vision and Christian Aid. But farmer critics have accused activists of playing ‘grinch’ this Christmas.

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?

Bringing you a digest of news and opinion pieces you might have missed from the past week, covering all things animal agriculture, animal protection and environmental justice.

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.

A group of restaurants and grocery stores in California has filed a lawsuit to block the implementation of ‘Proposition 12’ for fear it will cause shortages of pig products, proving that, in the end, profit matters more than the wellbeing of animals.