SPECIAL REPORT: Attempts by animal advocates to influence others’ choices on eating meat run the full gamut from sharing graphic videos from farms and slaughterhouses on social media to recommending documentaries to watch to holding demos and protests. But which type of advocacy actually works to change attitudes and behaviour?

DEBATE: With Earth Day coming up this week, Claire Hamlett reports on the first panel discussion held by Viva! Farming in which the future of sustainable farming - animal-free or not? - was discussed. Panellists included veganic farmer Iain Tolhurst, animal welfare expert Professor Andrew Knight and ProVeg Vice President Jasmijn de Boo.

SPECIAL REPORT: High-principled outdoor clothing brand Patagonia has long been lauded for its stance on the environment, sustainability and social responsibility, but a recent collaboration with a bison ranch has drawn criticism from animal justice groups. Claire Hamlett reports.

Why can’t we leave badgers in peace? They are distinctive and iconic animals, but are subjected to shockingly high levels of abuse and criminal behaviour, including an annual months-long cull across vast areas of the UK based on erroneous beliefs. Anna Champneys, senior lecturer in wildlife conservation at Nottingham Trent University, discusses the issues.

The evidence that children don’t want to eat animals is mounting. A new study by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford has found that children make fewer moral distinctions between different species and that speciesism is learned during adolescence.

On a day when the UK celebrates its love of cats, dogs and all the other nonhuman animals we bring into our homes and commonly refer to as ‘pets’, Claire Hamlett explains how through words and actions she respects the boundaries and agency of her two four-legged companions.

DEBUNKED: ‘Personal choice’ is often used as an excuse to justify eating animal flesh, dairy, and eggs, but this choice inevitably comes with considerable ethical and environmental consequences.

Bridgerton has been bold in its progressive treatment of many social issues, but with season 2 now out, it seems much of that messaging has come at the expense of animal justice. Claire Hamlett puts forward an alternative storyline.

INTERVIEW: In an age of fraught politics, environmental degradation, the threat of pandemics and other public health crises, Claire Hamlett speaks to author and academic Jeff Sebo about how saving animals is vital to saving ourselves.

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.

The Royal Horticultural Society, arguably the UK’s foremost gardening charity, has had a change of heart when it comes to our garden gastropods and whether we should be poisoning them. But what about other animals deemed pests, or those who simply don’t have a convenient role or value in our human lives? Claire Hamlett discusses.

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