The owner of the UK’s biggest poultry supplier, Bernard Matthews Foods, has made the absurd claim that a shortage of carbon dioxide gas, which is used to gas turkeys to death, means Christmas could be “cancelled”.

Philosopher Peter Singer has been awarded $1 million as the winner of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. As is fitting of both the ‘father of effective altruism’ and the author of the extremely influential book Animal Liberation, Singer plans to donate a third of the money to the most effective organisations working to end factory farming.

Several stories in recent weeks have emerged about wild boar. Together they paint a vivid picture of contradictions in everything from environmentalism to zoonotic diseases, as Claire Hamlett explains.

Animal Rebellion activists dyed the iconic Queen Victoria Memorial fountain red yesterday, accusing the current queen of having ‘blood on her hands’. We take a look at the scandal that sparked this action plus the ways in which crown lands have either supported animal agriculture or turned a blind eye to hunting.

News emerged this week of a desperate plan being concocted by the UK meat industry to address its labour crisis by employing prisoners via work release schemes. They say it’s the result of the combined effect of Brexit and Covid, but all it confirms is that only people with no other options would choose to butcher animals.

Marking the release of our latest video - The Truth About Plant Milks: Displacement of Indigenous People, Destruction & Deforestation - we take a look at cell-cultivated milk technology, said to take cows and other animals, including humans, out of milk production. More sustainable it might be, but is it actually more ethical?

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today released a landmark report identifying methane as a key greenhouse gas (GHG) to include in strategies tackling global warming ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, including livestock farming.

At the Tokyo Olympic Games yesterday, German athlete Annika Schleu set out on the equestrian stage of the modern pentathlon in tears astride a clearly distressed horse called Saint Boy. Heartbreaking scenes, but footage reviewed afterwards showed something far more shocking: event coach Kim Raisner appearing to strike Saint Boy with her fist in an attempt to control him and telling Schleu to whip him harder.

The EU has just lifted a ban on feeding animals byproducts of animal-based food production that has been in place for nearly 30 years following the BSE crisis of the 1990s that led to people dying from vCJD. Are we really going to ignore the lessons of the past?

While everyone was distracted by Covid-19, in a matter of days Russia has quietly passed amendments to laws that effectively legalise trophy hunting of endangered species for “research and education” or in “exceptional cases”.

A recent BBC story describes how grazing cattle are helping the rare pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly to thrive in a Scottish forest. While large grazing herbivores do play a role in keeping some ecosystems healthy and supporting other species, do they need to be ones that will end up on someone’s plate?

Breaking news: the animal agriculture industry is lying to us about climate change. For those of you who follow us, this will be yesterday’s news, but for others, it will come as somewhat of a surprise to learn that ten of the world’s top companies and industry groups are borrowing tactics from the tobacco industry to deliberately ‘obfuscate the science’.