Empathy can be a powerful thing. Anyone who has a pet dog or cat gains fresh insight into their inner lives every day. Some scientists have traditionally frowned at such empathy, describing it as ‘anthropomorphism’ – prescribing human characteristics to animals – and getting...
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived...
Marco Springmann and colleagues warn that we must shift to more plant-based ‘flexitarian’ diets if we are to reduce the food system’s projected greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement...
It's St Valentine's Day today and if you believe the media, it's also the perfect excuse to treat another special companion in your life: your dog or your cat. Many magazines and papers have promoted Valentine's gift ideas for pampered pooches and other furry friends...
Is your milk trashing the planet? I was recently faced with a dilemma; I found myself lost in the moral maze of milk. I’d come face-to-face with the reality of both the dairy industry and how crops like soya are produced. There is no question in...
How did killing method condemned for cruelty become standard? As news emerged over the summer of how Britain’s ‘big four’ supermarkets are sourcing meat from pigs killed using carbon dioxide, outraged consumers have been left with no way of choosing pork, bacon or ham produced more humanely. In...
Forty years ago, as an avid member of the RSPB’s Young Ornithologist’s Club (YOC), I took part in a project to find Britain’s most common garden bird. Decades later and the Big Garden Birdwatch has grown from a ‘one-off’ project to an annual fixture with about...
The acclaimed wildlife naturalist and broadcaster, who has become a patron of the charity Compassion In World Farming, wants people to learn more about animal agriculture....
On the day that highly respected naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham has been announced as the latest patron to join Compassion in World Farming, here's another chance to listen to the #BigTable podcast recorded last Autumn in which Chris tells us how...