Last week, activists from Animal Rebellion staged protests in several high-end supermarkets in London ahead of a planned large-scale disruption of the dairy industry in September. At Harrods in west London, activists poured bottles of milk onto the floor before being removed by security. In Marks and Spencer and Waitrose on Oxford Street, they emptied the shelves of milk and occupied the Waitrose Cheese Room.

NEWS: The Scrap Factory Farming (SFF) campaign has filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to hold the UK government accountable for its failure to protect the public from climate change and the risk of future pandemics posed by factory farming.

SPECIAL REPORT: Snake farming is on the rise in Kenya, with pet shops and zoos in the UK, Germany, and North America helping to drive demand, along with snakes being used in traditional medicine in China, according to a leading Kenyan newspaper. Claire Hamlett reports.

SPECIAL REPORT: Videos showing animals being tortured through teasing are racking up millions of views and likes on social media platforms, according to a new report by the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC).

NEWS: We’ve long known that dairy has been embattled by a ‘perfect storm’ of supermarket price-fixing, Brexit, the pandemic, the rise of plant-based milk alternatives and now increased overheads, but the industry’s own research is revealing exactly how many farmers want to jump ship… and how soon.

Among the Ukrainians required to stay and fight in the war against Russia rather than evacuate, many vegans are among the soldiers to be drafted. But with vegan products scarce among the Armed Forces, who supports the country’s vegan fighters? Tamara Human of vegan organisation Every Animal explains.

SPECIAL REPORT: At the start of the year, Proposition 12 came into effect in the state of California banning the use of gestation crates for farmed pigs, a law supported by 63 per cent of voters. So why is President Biden now siding against Prop 12, a democratic move, and with pork producers? Claire Hamlett reports.

NEWS: Anti-animal testing campaigners this morning (June 19) occupied MBR Acres, the UK's largest beagle breeding facility, to demand an end to animal testing in the UK by 2025. Five beagles were liberated in the days following the initial action, with three activists ultimately handing themselves in to police. (Updated June 22)

VOICES: Is falconry a tradition championing birds of prey that should be allowed to continue and thrive, or is this practice of keeping birds, and using them largely for entertainment purposes, outdated and unethical? Nina Copleston writes.

DEEP DIVE: Expanding on many of the issues highlighted in our video ‘How animal agriculture runs New Zealand’, Claire Hamlett delves into the ways animal agriculture exerts an uncompromising control over an entire nation despite its impact on the environment and animals.

VOICES: Mike Francis reviews the scientific research conducted into the biology of slaughter to put paid to the misguided belief that there can ever be such a thing as the humane killing of farmed animals.

VOICES: As a European Citizens’ Initiative to ban all fur farms and farmed fur products across the continent gains momentum, we’re exploring the progress away from fur Europe has seen so far, and why it’s so important.