What makes a person get up before dawn, travel to an unremarkable factory outside Scunthorpe in the north of England with other activists and storm a rooftop, ‘lock on’ outside the gates or affix oneself to the top of a bamboo tower or van as part of a three-day blockade? We spoke to three activists to find out.

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’.

Animal and environmental justice group Animal Rebellion has targeted McDonald’s once again to demand it commit to transitioning to a plant-based menu by 2025. Activists have blockaded the fast-food giant’s only burger factory in the UK, disrupting the supply of three million cow patties per day to its UK franchises.

More than a billion marine animals have cooked to death due to the intense heatwave that battered western Canada at the end of June. Here are the links between commercial fishing and the climate crisis.

FACT CHECK: While veganism is increasingly understood to be the most sustainable way to eat, it is still regularly insisted that certain meats are environmentally friendly. We take a look at how viable these claims really are...

At this moment of reckoning with the destructiveness of the human taste for animal flesh, small, family-run farms are emerging as the cause that everybody from Prince Charles to the European legislature wants to champion. But are they really the environmental panacea everyone makes them out to be?

The UN’s recently launched ‘decade on ecosystem restoration’ project says that the world must restore and reforest an area equivalent in size to China to prevent ecosystem collapse. One of the challenges they say is finding the imagination to come up with solutions, yet from their own ideas, one source of land for rewilding is conspicuously absent: animal agriculture.

Next week, the leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies will gather in Cornwall for the G7 Summit. Animal activists will be there to greet them.

Recent data suggests that only 14% of the UK’s rivers are of a good ecological standard – and none are of a good chemical standard – due to sewage discharges and agricultural and industrial chemicals entering the water system. Run-off from agricultural industries is responsible for 40% of damage to waterways, according to the UK’s Environment Agency.

France - where eating animals is seen by many as essential to haute cuisine - is to end its love affair with meat should proposals for new climate legislation go through. Opposition is fierce but expected, yet the bill also has surprising support from younger voters.

This Friday, May 28th, a new touring installation will launch in Cardiff to get the UK talking about eating meat and its impacts on health and the environment. A new exhibition on the same issue will launch simultaneously at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History.