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  • Victory: Cows Spared From Hell on Earth

    PETA and other animal rights groups are celebrating after learning that Velmur Ltd have abandoned their proposal to build a huge dairy factory farm in Lincolnshire.

  • Palm Oil: There’s a Bit of Orangutan Suffering in Every Drop

    Palm oil is often sourced from the homes of endangered orangutans and other animals. Greedy businesses cut down the trees and leave the animals homeless and starving to death.

  • A Thousand Balloons for Bears

    PETA is campaigning to convince the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to replace the bears skins used in the caps with a humane synthetic alternative.

  • Giant ‘Seal’ Wants to Speak With Canadian PM Stephen Harper

    A giant “seal” standing outside the Canadian Embassy holding a sign that read, “Harper: Stop the Seal Slaughter”, in protest of Canada’s annual seal massacre.

  • The Alarm Bells Should Have Been Ringing

    It’s no surprise that Stephen Griffiths – who was charged last week with murdering three women in Bradford – allegedly abused animals in the past.

  • What Would the Animals Say?

    Jane Mann’s Give Us a Chance! is a collection of poems about animals who are often feared or disliked but who might have hidden abilities unknown to children.

  • The Real Health And Safety Issue In Animal Dissection

    Recent systematic reviews show that non-animal teaching methods improve students’ confidence, learning efficiency, examination results, preparedness for laboratory work and information-retrieval and communication abilities.

  • Happy Birthday, Veggie Day!

    One year ago, the northern Belgium city of Ghent became the first city in the world to declare a weekly meat-free day to promote sustainable and healthy living.

  • More Taxes Please!

    Taxing “flesh foods” and animal secretions will help animals, halt climate change and other environmental problems and reduce costs of meat consumption that burden the National Health Service.

  • Eat To Save The Planet

    22 April 2010 marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.