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.

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)

HEALTH: The Guardian recently cited nutrition professionals talking about what specific nutrients we should be aiming to consume at each age - but how do their recommendations stack up with the literature around the benefits of plant-based diets?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

TERRIFYING TECH: In a bid to make slaughterhouses and other meat processing facilities safer for workers, researchers are looking into ways to combine virtual reality and factory robotics to do some of the work remotely.

WDAIL 2022: Marking World Day for Animals In Laboratories, we bring you a round-up of some notable animal protection groups and the campaigns you can get behind to help end barbaric and futile experimentation on mice and other lab animals.

Scientists are trying to determine whether labelling can trick conscientious consumers into buying the dead body parts of chickens fed with algae and insects in a bid to make farming them more sustainable. But is it yet another quick fix to get around the real issues? Claire Hamlett reports.

NEWS: An All-Party Parliamentary Group is urging the UK government to look once again at animal testing for medical research which it says could be hindering new advances due to its high failure rate.