The results of two government-commissioned studies into the number of dead badgers infected with bovine TB (bTB) have finally been released, confirming that badgers are being scapegoated for the spread of the disease.

The regret the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has expressed at the resignation of former Conservative MP Owen Paterson may go against public opinion but is no surprise at all, writes Claire Hamlett.

Animal guardians in the UK have welcomed a new law that classes pet theft as a specific criminal offence, recognising the welfare of the animal as well as the emotional distress caused to their human family. But is it enough?

In impossible situations, times of war and emergency, are animals more or less deserving of rescue than humans? Claire Hamlett examines the different opinions expressed during the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.

News emerged this week of a desperate plan being concocted by the UK meat industry to address its labour crisis by employing prisoners via work release schemes. They say it’s the result of the combined effect of Brexit and Covid, but all it confirms is that only people with no other options would choose to butcher animals.

Marking the release of our latest video - The Truth About Plant Milks: Displacement of Indigenous People, Destruction & Deforestation - we take a look at cell-cultivated milk technology, said to take cows and other animals, including humans, out of milk production. More sustainable it might be, but is it actually more ethical?

The plight of an alpaca named Geronimo, condemned to death by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), has pierced the hearts of thousands of people around the country. Yet Geronimo is just the latest victim in the UK government’s misguided crusade against bovine tuberculosis.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today released a landmark report identifying methane as a key greenhouse gas (GHG) to include in strategies tackling global warming ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, including livestock farming.

At the Tokyo Olympic Games yesterday, German athlete Annika Schleu set out on the equestrian stage of the modern pentathlon in tears astride a clearly distressed horse called Saint Boy. Heartbreaking scenes, but footage reviewed afterwards showed something far more shocking: event coach Kim Raisner appearing to strike Saint Boy with her fist in an attempt to control him and telling Schleu to whip him harder.

The EU has just lifted a ban on feeding animals byproducts of animal-based food production that has been in place for nearly 30 years following the BSE crisis of the 1990s that led to people dying from vCJD. Are we really going to ignore the lessons of the past?

While everyone was distracted by Covid-19, in a matter of days Russia has quietly passed amendments to laws that effectively legalise trophy hunting of endangered species for “research and education” or in “exceptional cases”.

The UK’s top 10 supermarkets are actively encouraging customers to buy meat products despite recent improvements in the companies’ environmental policies, a new supermarket scorecard by campaign group Feedback reveals.