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?

FACT CHECK: The meat lobby has been up in arms since Oxfordshire County Council voted on Tuesday in favour of its historic plant-based meals motion, throwing about accusations of unfair treatment of those who choose to eat the body parts of dead animals. But is there any substance to their argument?

SPECIAL REPORT: In the otherwise unassuming chambers of Oxfordshire County Council, a battle for the future was fought in the heart of Middle England, and the vegans and environmentalists emerged victorious. Claire Hamlett attended today’s historic vote in favour of plant-based menus.

POSITIVE NEWS: Power to the people, or rather power to the vegans! The Vegan Land Movement (VLM) has revealed that its latest crowdfunded land buy-out actually blocked the plans of two chicken farmers, one of whom was looking to build a facility with a turnaround of an estimated 20,000 birds per year.

For International Women’s Day, Claire Hamlett spotlights a few of the women who are actively advancing the rights of animals, either in their activism or professional work or in their contributions to public thought and discussion on this topic, who you may not have heard of before.

ALL ANIMALS: Bringing you a digest of news and opinion pieces you might have missed from the past week, covering all things animal justice.

ProVeg UK’s School Plates programme does exactly that - making school food more sustainable by swapping carbon-intensive meals with nutritious meat-free and plant-based alternatives. ProVeg UK’s Jimmy Pierson discusses the plant-based school food revolution in his guest blog to celebrate International School Meals Day.

REPORT: Britain’s pig farm crisis is getting worse, driven by the perfect storm of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the industry is proposing new ways to slaughter pigs on farms and launching desperate attempts to lure back migrant workers. Claire Hamlett updates us on the current situation.

With more and more children and young people becoming interested in veganism, here is a selection of non-fiction books on veganism and animal rights for young adults, whether they are already vegan or considering a more plant-based lifestyle.

Are universities, our hallowed institutes of higher education and progressive thinking, failing students by ignoring scientific consensus on the impact of animal agriculture on the environment? Vaania Kapoor Achuthan, a student at University College London, discusses the aims of a bold new plant-based universities campaign.

Did you know that you can support our upcoming campaigns and investigations just by living a vegan lifestyle and telling others about it?

After two weeks of negotiations, speeches, industry lobbying and civil society actions, the UN Climate Summit COP26 has ended with the Glasgow Climate Pact, an agreement between almost 200 nations on how to keep the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement alive. Yet it’s business-as-usual for animals, writes Claire Hamlett.