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.

Following multiple investigations into Britain's biggest duck producer, Gressingham Foods, Animal Justice Project has launched a new campaign with one aim - to bring an end to duck farming in the UK. Ayrton Cooper, Campaigns Manager at AJP, tells us how they’ll be putting extra pressure on an already dwindling industry.

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?

Producers of broiler chicken products have no reason to be concerned about the forthcoming launch of Beyond Meat’s plant-based poultry range, the chairman of the Russian National Meat Association said in comforting tones, ignoring forecasts from Deloitte of a 10 per cent growth in the plant-based food sector per year in Russia.

Horrifyingly, these words weren’t spoken by a cricketer or baseballer, but instead a worker at a farm operated by Bernard Matthews – the UK’s largest turkey producer. Abigail Penny, Executive Director of Animal Equality UK, writes.

They’re cute, fluffy and kids absolutely adore them - but what happens to classroom-hatched chicks after their two weeks is up? The reality isn’t nearly so cute, especially for the boys.