There is a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to that elusive decline in total meat consumption, but only in countries reaching a certain level of economic growth, according to a new study out this week.

BLOG: The news today has been awash with headlines about the 1,000 pet hamsters in Hong Kong due to be culled in a knee-jerk reaction to the discovery that some have been infected with coronavirus. This is tragic enough, but they aren’t the first non-humans to suffer as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. What lessons should we be learning?

NEWS: The Italian Senate today voted to approve changes to a budget law that will see the country’s 10 remaining mink farms closed within six months and a permanent ban on fur farming throughout Italy.

We spoke to Carl Valentin, Denmark’s first ever proudly vegan MP, about his political career, championing animal rights and environmentalism in the Danish political landscape, and how to ensure that the ban on mink farming for fur stays beyond Covid-19.

As a coronavirus mutation on a Danish mink fur farm shocks the world, a new report by Moving Animals reveals how popular brands are still selling false eyelashes made from mink fur.