SPECIAL REPORT: At the start of the year, Proposition 12 came into effect in the state of California banning the use of gestation crates for farmed pigs, a law supported by 63 per cent of voters. So why is President Biden now siding against Prop 12, a democratic move, and with pork producers? Claire Hamlett reports.

NEWS: Animal Rebellion has revealed in a new campaign video its plans to cause “large-scale material disruption to the supply of dairy” in the UK this September.

DEEP DIVE: Expanding on many of the issues highlighted in our video ‘How animal agriculture runs New Zealand’, Claire Hamlett delves into the ways animal agriculture exerts an uncompromising control over an entire nation despite its impact on the environment and animals.

Falling wool prices are pushing farmers towards naturally shedding sheep as they ditch the material - exposing holes in their argument that shearing the animals was always motivated by concern for the animals.

BREAKING NEWS: Animal rights activists have this morning scaled the roof of a livestock auction in Darlington, UK, the venue for today’s flagship National Beef Association 2022 Expo.

MILKED - available to watch free on Waterbear now - follows the story of activist Chris Huriwai as he ventures deep into the land of dairy, taking on the giants of New Zealand’s most powerful industry to expose the looming sustainability crisis and the dangerous denial of impending agricultural disruption. We spoke to director and producer Amy Taylor about the issues raised in this bold new documentary.

VOICES: Recent political moves towards recognising the sentience of nonhuman animals may seem like positive developments, but as recent law graduate and animal rights advocate Imogen Meston writes, may simply be part of a grand illusion waiting to be shattered. This guest article forms part of our series marking the release of our video ‘How animal agriculture runs New Zealand’.

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).

SUSTAINABILITY: A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has outlined how the welfare and regard for the moral importance of nonhuman animals is key to meeting international sustainability targets. Claire Hamlett reports.

SPECIAL REPORT: As if animal agriculture wasn’t rife enough with animal exploitation, a report by the Guardian has placed a spotlight on a little-known link between farms across Europe and the UK and so-called “blood farms” where horse hormones are harvested. Claire Hamlett discusses.

WEEKEND READ: Surge co-director Ed Winters recently debated the director of NFU Scotland on STV on the negative impacts of animal agriculture. Aside from Kennedy’s bare-faced lies about welfare, he made a curious claim that trees make methane too. Is this the ‘gotcha’ against rewilding he hoped it would be?

ANTI-VEGANS: It’s a question we frequently ask ourselves but has former Top Gear presenter-turned-professional-speciesist, Jeremy Clarkson, finally gone off the deep end in his latest column for the Times? Claire Hamlett ponders the bizarre logic of a conflicted mind.