Vegan TV ad highlighting meat-eaters' hypocrisy banned after UK viewers complained of distressing images
NEWS: The commercial, created by advocacy organisation Vegan Friendly UK sought to highlight the disconnect between people saying they care about animals but still eat them - but many did not want to see it.
Actor glues himself to Starbucks counter in protest at vegan surcharge
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.
Ukrainian volunteer killed delivering food to a dog shelter, and other news
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Ukraine: the animal images helping to tell the story of an invasion
PICTURES: In the grip of a Russian invasion, the situation for everyone in Ukraine is truly terrible. Among the pictures and videos emerging of the pitched fighting and humanitarian crisis, glimpses of pets and other animals caught in the crossfire are helping to tell a different side of the human story.
ALL ANIMALS: Plant-based ag offsets 68% of CO2 emissions, UK animal testing ban to be debated, plus other news from the animal world
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ALL ANIMALS: Fur and foie gras to be banned in the UK, Cambridge scholars champion animal rights law and 2021’s ‘wildest’ escapes
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Farmers could spark a pandemic ‘much bigger than covid’, warn antibiotics campaigners
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.
One-in-three Brits say vegan diet is “admirable”
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”.
ALL ANIMALS: Bear Grylls regrets killing for TV, 61% prefer plant protein, Ed Winters nominated for award and other news
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1.3 million farm animals die in Canada, M&S cheese polluter fined and Environment Agency in trouble over vegan activist employee
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UK eating 30% less beef and 55% less lamb with plant diets on the rise, new Oxford study finds
TRENDS: Between 2008 and 2019, the average daily meat consumption in the UK fell by around 17g per person with the greatest reduction in cow and processed flesh, a new study by researchers from the University of Oxford has found.
Hundreds of ‘perfectly healthy’ piglets culled as meat industry labour crisis threatens ‘acute welfare disaster’
NEWS: A farmer in Yorkshire, UK, has killed hundreds of piglets because slaughterhouses aren’t killing adults fast enough due to worker shortages, while other reports warn that 120,000 pigs could be culled to avoid an “acute welfare disaster”.