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.

We cast our eye over the past 12 months, including another harrowing investigation from Animal Justice Project, to get a picture of duck farming in the UK.

Over the last few decades, hundreds of human pathogens have emerged at a rate unprecedented in human history. Emerged from where? Mostly from animals, says Dr Michael Greger in our first Surge guest blog. Part of the Not If, But When campaign.

The Nightmare Before Christmas. With over 50,000 views on Instagram and almost 100,000 on Facebook, the truth is out about what happens to turkeys on UK farms.