NEWS and OPINION: I have been digging around to see how Liz Truss, the new PM, squares up in respect of animal welfare. It is a topic which is incredibly important to me, and progress was made under Boris Johnson to improve animal welfare thanks …
The best way to motivate people to change their ways to protect wildlife and to reduce the suffering of livestock in factory farming is through the mechanism of capitalism and convenience. Capitalism is destroying the planet, but it can with technology save it too. Nathan …
Farmers are painting the horns of their sheep to try and beat thieves in Dartmoor where it is reported that rural crime has risen by 40% over the past 12 months. There’s been an increase in animal theft and equipment from farmers in this region …
Joar Berge (moustache_farmer) is an unusual farmer. He forms very close relationships with his animals and in this video, we see him with a bull he has named Mogli. He tells us that two years ago he carried Mogli home in his arms as “You …
He is a Jacob sheep…he just gets the girls prego and looks good doing it lol – from the photographer. The title comes direct from Reddit.com. Thanks. Nice one. An amazing sheep. Looks a bit like the devil. I presume that the devil’s lettuce is …
This is a repeating short video without sound: a gif. I’ve decided that it is a lesson to us all. Close interspecies friendships take many forms. Companion animals don’t have to be cats and dogs. This cow has a relationship with the woman which is …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: Bravo, again, to Carrie Johnson who is a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF). She has long campaigned for labelling requirements on meat products making it obligatory to provide information as to how the animal was reared and slaughtered. There …
The High Peak Hunt allegedly acted recklessly as it charged onto a farmer’s field near Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire with a pack of hounds. In the field was a calf who was terrified. It ran in terror from the pack of hounds, jumping three drystone walls in …
RICHMOND, NORTH YORKSHIRE – NEWS AND OPINION: David Clark was an extremely popular, brilliant and lovely father and teacher. Very sadly, he was trampled to death by cows as he walked his dogs on a footpath that runs alongside a field. Clearly the cows had …