NEWS: Inspections at hundreds of poultry slaughterhouses across the US in 2021 revealed widespread violations of animal welfare regulations, according to official figures released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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.

SPECIAL REPORT: On April 23, DxE activist Sasha Zemmel attempted to storm a Timberwolves game, a team majority owned by business magnate and egg tycoon Glen Taylor. While the action was short-lived, it drew much-needed attention to the hours-long cullings of farmed animals by ventilation shutdown.

NEWS: An ex-contract poultry farmer has spoken out against his former industry as part of the launch of a collaborative ‘Farmer Toolkit’ to help other farmers move away from harmful animal agriculture.

BLOG: At a time of soaring fuel prices, energy bills and other cost-of-living rises that could spell disaster for many families in the UK, the poultry industry has jumped at the opportunity to use financial fears to stifle the slower-growing chicken movement.

NEWS: In case you missed it, there’s a rebellion happening in London. Activists from XR-offshoot Animal Rebellion and the Scrap Factory Farming campaign were arrested today after spelling out a stark message on the pavement outside Defra HQ.

INVESTIGATIONS: The video of YouTube influencer Niko, paid to visit a farm that supplies KFC with supposedly ‘high welfare’ chickens, went viral in December last year garnering around one million views on Twitter. But as an investigation by VFC has revealed, the claims made by the fast-food giant were anything but genuine.

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.

BREAKING NEWS: Activists from East London Chicken Save (ELCS) and Animal Rebellion have ‘locked on’ outside London’s last remaining slaughterhouse, Kedassia in Hackney Wick, stopping it from operating.

BLOG: Well-intentioned egg eaters will be unable to appease their consciences from tomorrow as free-range eggs are taken off supermarket shelves. The UK’s largest ever bird flu outbreak has meant chickens have not been allowed outside, a requirement of so-called “high welfare” labelling.

OPINION: Apart from burgers, nothing quite sums up fast food like the humble chicken nugget. Claire Hamlett discusses whether the buzz surrounding Burger King’s new vegan-friendly version could be signalling the end of intensively reared chickens.

BLOG: Cargill - America’s largest privately held company and multinational food conglomerate - has today been revealed to still be supplying UK farms with feed sourced from producers linked to Amazon deforestation, despite promises to clean up its supply chain. But for a multinational dubbed ‘the worst company in the world’ for a litany of reasons, is it really any surprise?