OPINION: Following Animal Rebellion’s recent action at Harrods and other upscale supermarkets in which activists poured out several pints of milk onto the shop floor and occupied dairy aisles, Animal Rebellion co-founder Dan Kidby got invited onto Good Morning Britain. But despite some issues with the segment, there was a notable change in tenor in the debate compared to how similar ones have gone in the past.

NEWS: A new book by Compassion in World Farming CEO Philip Lymbery has revealed that the number of US-style mega-farms in the UK has ballooned to 1,099, trapping millions of birds and thousands of pigs and cows in these huge industrial systems.

NEWS: The owner of an animal sanctuary who took in two escaped cows has been arrested on charges of grand larceny. Tracy Murphy, who runs Asha’s Farm Sanctuary in Newfane, New York state, was charged yesterday after she came across two cows wandering on their own several weeks ago and took them to Asha’s to be looked after.

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.

It’s not the government’s place to “lecture” people on what to eat, is it? This is the justification ministers have offered to explain why the government’s new Food Strategy fails to include any measures to cut national meat consumption in line with recommendations from Henry Dimbleby’s government-commissioned review of the UK’s food system last year.

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: Recent political moves towards recognising the sentience of nonhuman animals may seem like positive developments, but as recent law graduate and animal rights advocate Imogen Meston writes, may simply be part of a grand illusion waiting to be shattered. This guest article forms part of our series marking the release of our video ‘How animal agriculture runs New Zealand’.

OPINION: New traffic measures are great news for cyclists and other humans, but as dog caregiver Claire Hamlett explains, are also a welcomed development for dogs and other animals whose lives can be so terribly affected by cars and roads.

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.

NEWS: The use of glue traps to catch mice, rats and other rodents by anyone without a pest control licence is set to be banned in England, with breaches of the new law carrying a fine or up to a year in prison.

DEEP DIVE: Britain’s exit from the European Union presented both threats and promises to animal justice in the UK. But since coming into effect in 2020, what - if anything - has actually changed? Devon Docherty writes.