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Proposition 12 Is the animal welfare law with nine lives
The law survived sustained attacks from Congress, the Trump Administration and Big Pork. How is it so resilient?
Brazil bans foie gras in historic victory for animals
In a major victory for animals, Brazil officially banned the production and sale of foie gras and other food products made by force-feeding animals!
Inside the meat industry’s push to ban drones over factory farms
In February, an animal rights group flew a drone over a farm in California that raises calves destined for dairies and cattle ranches. Double D Dairies, the company that owns the farm, is linked to a prominent milk brand that highlights its humane farming practices. But the drone documented a very different reality. In one […]
Better for Animals: the evidence behind government outreach
Learn what the evidence says about government outreach for farmed animals, including lobbying, policy reform, public support, and the factors that shape impact.…Read more.
The limited power of farmed animal welfare
Across the European Union, expert veterinarians are sent out to ensure that farms and slaughterhouses do the bare minimum. And sometimes, even minimal welfare is too high a bar where economics are concerned.
The objection that eating animals is natural
One of the most common objections to veganism is the claim that eating animals is right because it’s natural. People often point out that humans sit at the top of the food chain. Read more.
Guinea pigs for dinner: what the law actually says
Pembrokeshire County Council has approved a family plan to raise guinea pigs, alongside rabbits and pigeons, specifically to kill and eat them at home.
Laboratory rodents deserve better than improvised killing methods
Cervical dislocation is the most common killing method for mice and rats in U.K. laboratories. Yet it’s applied inconsistently, often with improvised tools, raising serious animal welfare concerns.
If a stretch of chalk stream can be a person in law, why can't a pig?
In 2017 New Zealand's Parliament did something remarkable: it passed a law making a river a legal person.
The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together
“This is demonic stuff.” “It’s downright abusive.” “That sounds like torture to me.” “It’s inhumane.” It causes “physical problems and psychological anguish.” These are quotes describing the pork industry’s standard practice of confining pregnant pigs in tiny crates, called gestation crates, which are so small that the pigs can’t even turn around. Millions of pigs […]
Podcast: ‘The cage-free gaslight’
What if I told you that cage-free campaigns are not only ineffective at helping hens, but may actually cause more suffering—and even set back the animal rights movement?
via The Vegan Report
Brilliant discussion – a must-listen.
How Denmark’s ‘pig election’ rewrote factory farm politics
Could animal welfare and clean water motivate American voters?
Faunalytics Index – July 2026
This month’s Faunalytics Index provides facts and stats about how guardians learn to train their dogs, surplus research animals in Switzerland, meat industry influence on nutrition research, and more.
Hundreds of dogs to be sent to rescue as US beagle research facility shuts down
Ridglan Farms facility in Wisconsin was at the center of protests against the practice of using animals for research.
Animals 24-7 coverage. And an interesting Psychology Today article on the history behind the exploitation of beagles by research scientists.
The digestibility of vegan and vegetarian diets for dogs and cats
There is growing interest in vegan and vegetarian (veg*n) diets for dogs and cats, due to factors including pet health, environmental sustainability and farmed animal welfare. Such diets should be carefully designed and manufactured in order to be nutritionally sound. Digestibility is a key, although not the only, determinant of this, and it has sometimes been claimed that dogs and cats cannot effectively digest and utilize plant-based proteins. To evaluate this claim, studies assessing canine […]
via PubMed
From the paper’s conclusion: ‘Across a range of study designs, populations, digestibility metrics, dietary ingredients and processing methods, digestibility values of veg*n diets were consistently high and broadly comparable to those of conventional meat-based diets.’
The emotional lives of farmed animals and why they matter
Vicki Hutton highlights the ethical challenges and uncomfortable moral dilemmas about the welfare of these sentient beings by focusing on the inner lives of rescued individuals.
Hutton: ‘Every animal is unique, but the industrial farm system has commodified them into products for mass consumption. I wanted to showcase the uniqueness of farmed animals by giving voice to some survivors of the system.’
Vegetarian and vegan diets and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis […]
Several studies have suggested that vegetarian and vegan vs. non-vegetarian diets are associated with lower cancer risk overall, however, results for specific cancer sites have been less consistent. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies on vegetarian and vegan diets and cancer incidence to clarify the associations across cancer sites. PubMed and Embase databases were searched for relevant studies up to 5 July 2025. Summary relative risks (RRs) and 95% […]
via PubMed
From the study’s discussion: “In conclusion, vegetarian diets were associated with reductions in the relative risk of total cancer (13%), stomach (43%), colorectal (14%), pancreatic (23%), breast (10%), and bladder (21%) cancers, melanoma (21%) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (23%). Vegan diets were associated with a 23% reduction in risk of total cancer and a 20% reduction in breast cancer risk.”
The cruelty of dairy farming from a vet student’s perspective
Rhiannon, a vegan veterinarian student, shares her perspective on the cruelty involved in dairy farming, from first-hand experience.
Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England
Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws.
Coverage and comment: r/vegan, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics. Guardian UK politics live (comments), BBC (comments), FT (leading on lobster welfare), British Veterinary Association, Born Free, Law Society Gazette (by Edie Bowles of The Animal Law Foundation).
More: Guardian editorial (23 Dec) and reader letters (30 Dec).
Study: how pig images affect willingness to reduce pork consumption
Images pairing pork with pig cruelty increased moral emotions and willingness to reduce consumption among U.K. omnivores, though enjoyment of meat remained a major barrier.
California animal rights activist convicted in chicken theft
Zoe Rosenberg, a California animal rights activist, was found guilty of conspiracy and trespassing for taking four chickens from a poultry plant.
via New York Times
Reducing prejudices can lead to dietary changes
Results from a pair of experiments suggest that taking an animal’s perspective can help reduce a person’s animal product consumption.
Big pharma boss ENDS THE DEBATE on diet vs drugs
Klaus Mitchell interviews Dr. Bharat Shah, CBE as well as his brother Manish Shah about Sigma Pharmaceuticals and what he has learnt about the industry, including his experience with Jainism, dairy, a plant based diet, and much more!
Really worth a listen and share.
New study reveals that fish suffer up to 22 minutes of pain before death
The study further validates that fish’s pain is not merely reflexive. Their brains and stress responses show that, just like other animals, their suffering is conscious and deeply upsetting for them.
Other articles in the ‘Better for Animals’ series, which include looking into the effectiveness of protests, books and documentaries, and investigations.