A new animation narrated by Chris Packham and released by the campaign group Keep the Ban aims to raise awareness of so-called ‘trail hunting’, exposed last year by hunt saboteurs as a subterfuge for illegal fox hunting in the UK.

BLOG: Cargill - America’s largest privately held company and multinational food conglomerate - has today been revealed to still be supplying UK farms with feed sourced from producers linked to Amazon deforestation, despite promises to clean up its supply chain. But for a multinational dubbed ‘the worst company in the world’ for a litany of reasons, is it really any surprise?

NEWS: England’s cherished waterways are awash with animal faeces, microplastics and chemicals according to the findings of a report by the Environmental Audit Committee - and intensive chicken and livestock farming is one of the leading causes.

To mark the release of our Veganuary 2022 video, here is our list of the five best books, films and documentaries to help humans shift their perspective to some of those who we exploit by not going plant-based. Do you know someone taking the Veganuary challenge? Send them our essential viewing and reading to help them make the ethical connection.

The news that the world’s first octopus farm is to open in Spain next year received huge media and public attention. But with ‘high welfare’ octopus farming an impossibility according to scientists, is there still time to stop it before it starts? Claire Hamlett spoke to Compassion in World Farming.

A rare case of avian influenza infecting a human living in England was reported this week. Bird-to-human transmission is rare and human-to-human rarer still, but with UK outbreaks now double last year’s and predictions of Europe’s worst bird flu epidemic ever - coupled with the high mutation rate of influenza and cases of H5N1 detected in foxes, seals and other mammals - a human bird flu pandemic feels closer than ever.

OPINION: Today marks the start of ‘Regenuary’, a month-long campaign founded by the dubious Ethical Butcher in response to Veganuary’s “overly simplistic narrative” regarding animal agriculture. Emotions always run high, but is regenerative farming truly incompatible with veganism, or is there common ground rooted in very sensible dialogue?

NEWS: Gamekeepers and people who like to gun down animals have been told that certain species such as carrion crows and jackdaws can now be shot as the government updates its definition of ‘livestock’ to include game birds.

Another New Year, another night of fun, fireworks and terrified animals. The bright lights and bangs might offer up a momentary thrill during winter festivities, but as dog caregiver Claire Hamlett discusses, spare a thought for the animals who suffer and die as a result.

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.

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?

In Surge co-founder Ed Winter’s latest video he examined COP26, food technology innovations and animal sentience legislation to answer the question, was there any progress for the vegan movement? Claire Hamlett reviews more of the year that was 2021 for animal justice activism.