Why are we still caging hens?

The cloning of animals – pets, farm animals, racehorses – is today done routinely on an industrial scale. Bianca Bosker investigates

WHEN Tracy Halls’s daughter Sascha came home from school in early 2017 and told her mother she’d seen a duckling in trouble, she had no idea that this day would turn out to be life changing. “We went

The ethics of industrial insect farming

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

UNLESS YOU’VE BEEN LIVING ON Mars for the past five years, you will know there is a problem with excess nutrients – well, pollution – in Britain’s rivers. The vast majority of this is down to agricult

Curlews need all the help they can get ...