The UK's new Food Strategy is nothing but a 'feeble to-do list'
It’s not the government’s place to “lecture” people on what to eat, is it? This is the justification ministers have offered to explain why the government’s new Food Strategy fails to include any measures to cut national meat consumption in line with recommendations from Henry Dimbleby’s government-commissioned review of the UK’s food system last year.
Failures and false promises: Brexit’s impact on animals, two years on
DEEP DIVE: Britain’s exit from the European Union presented both threats and promises to animal justice in the UK. But since coming into effect in 2020, what - if anything - has actually changed? Devon Docherty writes.
Face masks for cows?! IPCC warns against ‘maladaptive mitigation’, but what does mean for animal farming?
The UN’s leading authority on climate issues - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - has issued a stark warning against measures that seem a good idea at first, but can actually be counterproductive. Some of these ‘maladaptive mitigations’ are, unsurprisingly, linked to animal agriculture. Claire Hamlett reports.
Growing animal feed crops drives up toxic pesticide use
The use of pesticides in crop farming is a very common ‘gotcha’ that meat-eaters use against vegans when comparing the animal death toll and environmental impact of our food systems. But a new report has found that huge quantities of these harmful chemicals are being used to grow crops for animal feed. Claire Hamlett reports.
UK to U-turn on fur and foie gras? Let’s ban Rees Mogg and his animal abusing pals
The UK government is on the verge of backtracking on its proposal to ban imports of fur and foie gras, driven by the will of Jacob Rees Mogg and other Tory cronies. Claire Hamlett reports.
Defra in the dock: campaigners poised to take UK Government to court over factory farming
Campaigners are standing at the precipice of what they believe will be a landmark first legal action against any government. We caught up with Humane Being and the Scrap campaign who, together with co-claimant veterinarian Dr Alice Borough and with the help of high-profile human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield QC, have just issued a ‘last chance’ warning prior to launching a case that will finally hold to account the UK Government for the grave threat posed by factory farming.