NEWS: Animal activists have been celebrating the closure of the last rabbit farm run by T&S Rabbits, a shady unofficial company owned by businessman Phil Kerry.

NEWS: Animal Rebellion has revealed in a new campaign video its plans to cause “large-scale material disruption to the supply of dairy” in the UK this September.

BREAKING NEWS: Animal rights activists have this morning scaled the roof of a livestock auction in Darlington, UK, the venue for today’s flagship National Beef Association 2022 Expo.

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.

VOICES: The vegan-friendly Burger King in London has been open for a week now and the hype is very real. But what many plant-based fans forget is that Leicester Square has been the venue for countless outreach actions over the years. So what do some of the local animal rights activists think about it?

THOUGHTS: The situation in Ukraine is worsening day by day, and so too are the many challenges faced by Ukrainians in the midst of an invasion by Russia. For many families and those who do not stay to fight, the answer is of course to evacuate and find safety. But to the people who run animal shelters and sanctuaries, this is simply out of the question. Claire Hamlett shares her thoughts on these brave humans.

Famed scientist Jane Goodall and Animal Save Movement are among those to amplify calls to end farm animal gifting to people in developing countries via charities such as Oxfam, World Vision and Christian Aid. But farmer critics have accused activists of playing ‘grinch’ this Christmas.

ANALYSIS: According to researchers, attempting to convince people not to eat meat too judgmentally could be counterproductive because they actually ‘care too much’ about animals, forcing them to use various methods to escape the uncomfortable truth. Can knowing this make us better activists?

There is just one more day to add your name to a parliamentary petition to ban the use, sale, and manufacture of free-running snares for trapping wildlife. In order to secure a debate in parliament, 31,522 signatures are still needed.

The US city of Berkeley in California has sent one of the strongest signals yet that the disproportionate impact of animal agriculture on the environment is being recognised, by becoming the first US city to set a plan to one day only spend public money on plant-based foods.

Animals have been “systematically mistreated” over several months in a slaughterhouse linked to the German company Mecke. According to animal rights activists from SOKO Tierschutz who released hidden camera footage yesterday, workers were seen beating a cow “to the bone” until unconscious as part of a suspected animal testing operation.

Veganism is on the rise in China, but what are the unique challenges faced by the country’s fledgling vegan society? We spoke to the CVS team about plant-based trends and championing animal justice within a unique cultural and political setting.