Footage obtained by investigators working for Surge of a pig farm near Scarborough, UK, has revealed shocking levels of suffering, injuries and flagrant disregard for animal welfare by workers, prompting several leading UK supermarkets and Red Tractor to drop the farm.

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.

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.

Europe’s legislature has come to its senses and thrown out Amendment 171, a draft bill that would have effectively censored producers of vegan dairy alternatives at the behest of animal industry lobbyists.

BREAKING NEWS: Activists from Animal Rebellion have this morning blockaded four distribution centres supplying what they say is around 1,300 McDonalds restaurants across the UK.

Farmers in Australia are ‘uniting’ to demand that the government step in and stop vegan food brands from using terms like ‘meat’, ‘chicken’, ‘beef’ and so on with accusations of misleading marketing and a lack of transparency. They want people to know the truth about where their meat comes from, but not the whole truth.

Producers of broiler chicken products have no reason to be concerned about the forthcoming launch of Beyond Meat’s plant-based poultry range, the chairman of the Russian National Meat Association said in comforting tones, ignoring forecasts from Deloitte of a 10 per cent growth in the plant-based food sector per year in Russia.

While the ‘beef’ industry is often thought of as one of the worst greenhouse gas emitters and contributors to rainforest destruction and the ensuing climate crisis, a new report reminds us that other agricultural sectors have a lot to answer for including, not least of all, the UK’s free-range egg producers.

Wire noose traps, or snares, are responsible for causing “unimaginable pain and distress” not just to their intended targets such as foxes and rabbits, but to badgers and other wildlife too. Even companion animals such as cats and dogs regularly fall victim to these cruel devices, according to Animal Aid’s latest ‘Ban Snares’ campaign.

The discovery of 160 puppies and kittens being transported illegally through China’s postal service last week has thrown the country’s cruel ‘pet blind box’ craze into the spotlight.

It’s long been a criticism of vegan diets that our ‘fake meat’ products are too expensive when compared to the original cruelty-ridden versions. But no longer it seems, at least at Co-op with the announcement that it will slash prices to create parity between items like its plant-based burgers and sausages and the versions non-vegans buy.

A new investigation by Animal Equality UK has prompted a criminal investigation after revealing a litany of horrors including piglets being killed with a hammer or slammed on concrete floors and mother pigs with severe uterine prolapses being forced to walk before being shot.