REPORT: Britain’s pig farm crisis is getting worse, driven by the perfect storm of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the industry is proposing new ways to slaughter pigs on farms and launching desperate attempts to lure back migrant workers. Claire Hamlett updates us on the current situation.

With more and more children and young people becoming interested in veganism, here is a selection of non-fiction books on veganism and animal rights for young adults, whether they are already vegan or considering a more plant-based lifestyle.

Vitamin B12 is essential for us to consume, but it is not naturally found in plant-based food. Here, we answer questions you may have on B12 and the vegan diet.

NEWS: On Tuesday, the Scrap Factory Farming campaign (SFF) went to court to ask a judge to grant a judicial review into the government’s failure to consider evidence that keeping animals in intensive farming conditions is a serious risk for the emergence of new zoonotic diseases and antibiotic resistance. Today, the judge refused to grant the review. SFF plans to appeal the decision.

BLOG: Fans tuning into Katie Price’s new show Mucky Mansion expressed outrage on social media when the celebrity mum sliced up and mounted her son’s stuffed animals for macabre bedroom décor. From indignant hypocrisy to bizarre admiration, the reactions revealed the full spectrum of the public’s attitudes towards non-human animals.

GUEST ARTICLE: Did you know that the UK’s Ministry of Defence was offered replacement faux fur bear caps at no cost to them until 2030? Instead, they chose to use taxpayer money to fund the massacre of Canadian black bears by hunters. PETA Director Elisa Allen explains how you can take action.

How is an unlikely increase in the demand for crocodile flesh linked to pig farming and the spread of African Swine Fever? Claire Hamlett reports.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to that elusive decline in total meat consumption, but only in countries reaching a certain level of economic growth, according to a new study out this week.

Are universities, our hallowed institutes of higher education and progressive thinking, failing students by ignoring scientific consensus on the impact of animal agriculture on the environment? Vaania Kapoor Achuthan, a student at University College London, discusses the aims of a bold new plant-based universities campaign.

OPINION: Is it time to give speciesism a serious makeover? For all its woke generation appeal, the new season of the rebooted Queer Eye fails to be entirely unproblematic when it comes to non-humans. Claire Hamlett writes.

BLOG: The news today has been awash with headlines about the 1,000 pet hamsters in Hong Kong due to be culled in a knee-jerk reaction to the discovery that some have been infected with coronavirus. This is tragic enough, but they aren’t the first non-humans to suffer as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. What lessons should we be learning?

OPINION: Apart from burgers, nothing quite sums up fast food like the humble chicken nugget. Claire Hamlett discusses whether the buzz surrounding Burger King’s new vegan-friendly version could be signalling the end of intensively reared chickens.