VOICES: A new short film called ‘Rewild Your Word’, narrated by Megan McCubbin, highlights the importance of our pollinators and the massive opportunity we have to save them with the power of wildflowers. Its animator Ben Sinclair of Fire Lily Studio talks us through the film and the issues raised.

BLOG: Experts are warning that more of Britain’s dogs and other companion animals may be abandoned in the months to come as the cost-of-living crisis places further financial pressure on families. How is it that animals are always the victims of our human crises?

SPECIAL REPORT: As if animal agriculture wasn’t rife enough with animal exploitation, a report by the Guardian has placed a spotlight on a little-known link between farms across Europe and the UK and so-called “blood farms” where horse hormones are harvested. Claire Hamlett discusses.

NEWS: American actor James Cromwell has made headlines after glueing himself to a countertop in a New York City Starbucks on Tuesday to protest the company’s extra charge for vegan milk alternatives.

Will Boris’s betrayals never end? Sadly not as today’s Queen’s Speech, delivered by Prince Charles, left out many measures designed to better protect animals such as a ban on foie gras and fur imports. Claire Hamlett reports.

WEEKEND READ: Surge co-director Ed Winters recently debated the director of NFU Scotland on STV on the negative impacts of animal agriculture. Aside from Kennedy’s bare-faced lies about welfare, he made a curious claim that trees make methane too. Is this the ‘gotcha’ against rewilding he hoped it would be?

ANTI-VEGANS: It’s a question we frequently ask ourselves but has former Top Gear presenter-turned-professional-speciesist, Jeremy Clarkson, finally gone off the deep end in his latest column for the Times? Claire Hamlett ponders the bizarre logic of a conflicted mind.

SPECIAL REPORT: The five-month-long bird flu ‘flockdown’, a set of quarantine measures affecting the UK’s domestic poultry population, has finally come to an end. Claire Hamlett reports on the struggles faced by chickens and more yet to come as chicken-keepers return to work following Covid-19.

NEWS: Universities, private companies, and non-profits in Northern Ireland have breached laws protecting laboratory animals 13 times since 2017, with almost half the violations occurring in 2021, the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) has revealed.

VOICES: Imagine a time when all schools and public sector menus included at least one vegan option. In Portugal that’s a reality, so why not the UK? Laura Chepner, chair of The Vegan Society’s Education Network, tells us about their new ‘Vegans Assemble’ campaign.

SPECIAL REPORT: Attempts by animal advocates to influence others’ choices on eating meat run the full gamut from sharing graphic videos from farms and slaughterhouses on social media to recommending documentaries to watch to holding demos and protests. But which type of advocacy actually works to change attitudes and behaviour?

NEWS: First VR slaughterhouse robots, now methane masks to capture cow burps receive funding from the Prince of Wales. It’s yet another bizarre day in the weird world of meat industry technology.