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.

Despite losing its appeal in the fashion industry, the pro-fur lobby is refusing to accept its fate and go quietly into the night. Instead, it is trying to rehabilitate its image, proclaiming itself as the antidote to fast fashion and roping in social media influencers and celebrities to help promote its message. Claire Hamlett writes.

NEWS: Anti-animal testing campaigners this morning (June 19) occupied MBR Acres, the UK's largest beagle breeding facility, to demand an end to animal testing in the UK by 2025. Five beagles were liberated in the days following the initial action, with three activists ultimately handing themselves in to police. (Updated June 22)

VOICES: There’s a new type of Avian Influenza (AI) in Canada and it’s killing wild birds. A new type of H5N1 to be exact, one that is part of a group of AIs called “Clade 2.3.4.4b” that are killing wild birds en masse all over the world.

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.

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.

OPINION: As clothing brands are increasingly moving away from cruelty to animals by ditching fur and exotic animal skins, even searching for vegan alternatives to leather, why does the fashion industry continue its enthusiastic support for the brutal - and too often lethal - ‘sport’ of horseracing?

NEWS: The commercial, created by advocacy organisation Vegan Friendly UK sought to highlight the disconnect between people saying they care about animals but still eat them - but many did not want to see it.

VOICES: Is falconry a tradition championing birds of prey that should be allowed to continue and thrive, or is this practice of keeping birds, and using them largely for entertainment purposes, outdated and unethical? Nina Copleston writes.

HEALTH: The Guardian recently cited nutrition professionals talking about what specific nutrients we should be aiming to consume at each age - but how do their recommendations stack up with the literature around the benefits of plant-based diets?

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.

VOICES: Mike Francis reviews the scientific research conducted into the biology of slaughter to put paid to the misguided belief that there can ever be such a thing as the humane killing of farmed animals.