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.

We don’t review many films here at Surge, but on watching Cow - which had the potential to be one of the most important portraits of a farmed animal ever to be made - we’re left with the feeling that justice wasn’t done to its star, Luma the mother cow. Spoiler alerts are not necessary, writes Andrew Gough.

Ironically, the fishing industry is quite literally conspiring to head-off the bombshell that will hit them when the long-awaited and highly anticipated documentary Seaspiracy debuts next week. Thanks to Plant Based News for drawing attention to leaked documents provided to them, we now know the extent to which the industry is worried.