Project Slingshot UK on Instagram: "They told us the labels were honest. They told us the tractor stamp meant something. And they told us the animals were happy. @missdianemorgan, @jenbristercomedy, ... 68K likes, 13K comments - slingshot_uk on April 20, 2026: "They told us the labels were honest. They told us the tractor stamp meant something. And they told us the animals were happy. @missdianemorg...

Project Slingshot's "Don't Buy It" campaign against factory farming launches in London.

Argentine Dogma: Dogo Argentinos and Bombón, El Perro (2004) While preparing this article, I learnt that the national animal of Argentina is a small, rust-coloured bird called the rufous hornero. At first glance, it might seem an unassuming representative for a country in possession of such a complex culture. This is a nation whose history can be traced through numerous indigenous civilisations and pre-Columbian empires, the legacy of Spanish colonialism, and, of course, several modern civil wars.

Argentine Dogma: Dogo Argentinos and Bombón, El Perro (2004)

While preparing this article, I learnt that the national animal of Argentina is a small, rust-coloured bird called the rufous hornero. At first glance, it might seem an unassuming representative for a country in possession of such a…

Turtles All the Way Down: Marine Conservation & The Red Turtle (2016) Those who know me best probably assume that, of all the films released to general audiences in 2017, Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water surely secures the top spot in my heart. Not so. It was pipped at the post, remarkably, by another film about a human protagonist forming a romantic relationship with an aquatic creature. Once is happenstance; twice, as in this case, feels faintly conspiratorial.

Turtles All the Way Down: Marine Conservation & The Red Turtle (2016)

Those who know me best probably assume that, of all the films released to general audiences in 2017, Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water surely secures the top spot in my heart. Not so. It was pipped at…

Food brands break Frankenchickens promise Burger King, Wagamama, KFC walk out on Better Chicken Commitment and set up welfare-washing Sustainable Chicken Forum in its place.

Nandos, KFC, Burger King and more walk back on policy agreements "designed by scientists to relieve the worst forms of suffering experienced by chickens raised for meat."

Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby The plant-based drink maker can no longer use the term 'milk' to market its products.

Absurd. Hands up if you have ever been confused by milk substitutes using the word 'milk' in their branding.

Tykes in Flight: Social Mobility and Falconry in Kes (1969) Ken Loach’s Kes (1969) is an extraordinarily empathetic production that needs little introduction. As well as helping to cement British social realism as one of the country’s most significant cultural movements, Loach’s body of work provides UK cinema with a degree of conscience, articulated through the exploration of debates such as immigration, colonialism, poverty, workers’ rights, and social justice. As the director’s second feature film, …

Tykes in Flight: Social Mobility and Falconry in Kes (1969)

Ken Loach’s Kes (1969) is an extraordinarily empathetic production that needs little introduction. As well as helping to cement British social realism as one of the country’s most significant cultural movements, Loach’s body of work…

Brussels’ misguided beef with veggie burgers Banning plant-based products with meaty names is exactly the kind of red tape the EU said it had left behind

Brussels’ misguided beef with veggie burgers - The Financial Times

Labour’s animal welfare strategy does not go far enough | Letters Letters: Readers respond to the government’s plans to improve the lot of animals

Labour’s animal welfare strategy does not go far enough | Animal welfare | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Comic Cryptids and Eco-Sustainability in Sasquatch Sunset (2024) I’ve always had a soft spot for cryptozoology, the pseudoscientific field of fascination with unsubstantiated creatures. Who can resist the romantic allure of the Loch Ness Monster that supposedly …

What is it that fuels our fascination with Bigfoot and Sasquatch? When did the beast first stamp its way across our imagination and what might it have to teach us about our relationship to the environment? Find out more in this article about the Zellner Bros' film, Sasquatch Sunset (2024).

Capturing Animals in Motion Have you seen this image before? If you have, it’s almost certainly because someone has attempted to illustrate an example of early photographic motion to you. These distinct silhouettes of a gallo…

Galloping racehorses, murder, exploitation, and the birth of cinema - read the new post on Creature Features!

Frankenstein (2025) and Vegetarian Monstrosity Guillermo del Toro loves monsters. If there is any connective thread that runs through the director’s work, it is the very-same that the zealous Frankenstein uses to stitch together the patchwork f…

Did you know Frankenstein's creature was a vegetarian? Find out more in the inaugural post of a new blog, Creature Features, dedicated to animal welfare on screen!