From news on Octopus farming, Ban Live Export Awareness Day, Danish fishermen and Puffins, to why cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest, plus a whole lot more…

For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from May and June, please use this great update

Opinion Articles

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  Will our children heal the world, and will we allow them to?
  Sitting on a child’s bed are rows of brightly coloured animals. A blue lizard. A golden lion alongside a purple monkey.
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  Penguins Are Key Indicators of the Ocean’s Health
  In Betty’s Bay, South Africa, one of the world’s wildlife celebrities, an African penguin, was busy shaking herself free from the sea. 
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  How we make food is insane — a conversation with animal advocate and author Philip Lymbery
  For Philip Lymbery, the author of ‘Farmageddon’, ‘The Dead Zone’ and ‘Sixty Harvests Left’, we have two choices: change how we feed ourselves or prepare for extinction.
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  Danish fishermen are posing a new threat to Scotland’s dwindling population of puffins
  A ban on commercial fishing for sandeels – on which puffins depend – is being challenged by the European Union
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  As My Octopus Teacher showed, these creatures are too intelligent to be farmed
  The mind of an octopus can be compared to a three-year-old child’s. Are we really going to trap them in barren tanks of water while they await slaughter for food?
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  Cheap supermarket meat is killing the rainforest & driving people like Osvalinda from their homes
  Smallholders like the late Osvalinda Pereira face a campaign of deadly threats and harassment from big companies that produce feed for animals in Europe and China

Blogs

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  BETWEEN TWO SLICES: THE SURPRISING STORY AND ETHICS OF THE SANDWICH
  How many of us know that dining was forever changed by a compulsive gambler?
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  FROM LIVE AID TO FOOD AID: A JOURNEY OF COMPASSION AND CHANGE
  What Ethiopia Taught Me About Food, Hope and Humanity What has been your summer highlight this year? Beach trips with the kids, a getaway somewhere exotic, or gorgeous evenings with a glass of something cool? Mine was the unexpected serendipity… Read more: FROM LIVE AID TO FOOD AID: A JOURNEY OF COMPASSION AND CHANGE
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  FROM WIMBLEDON TO WILDFIRES: HOW SPORT CAN SPARK CLIMATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS AND THE VULNERABLE
  10 Wimbledon and the green scent of cut grass hung in the humid air. There was not a breath of wind. Jugs of Pimm’s filled empty glasses. Cream spilled gently over the reddest of strawberries. Top tennis seeds dressed all… Read more: FROM WIMBLEDON TO WILDFIRES: HOW SPORT CAN SPARK CLIMATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS AND THE VULNERABLE
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  THE FUTURE OF FOOD: WHAT THE WORLD WANTS VERSUS WHAT WE TRULY NEED
  5 Three Principles to Fix Food and Save the Planet Summertime and the cows could not be looking happier. They were out roaming the fields on rich verdant pasture studded with crimson clover. Young black heifers with catlike whiskers snorted… Read more: THE FUTURE OF FOOD: WHAT THE WORLD WANTS VERSUS WHAT WE TRULY NEED

Social Media Top Three Tweets –

The Top tweet was ‘Calf rammed repeatedly by police’

Next it was ‘Please support Ban Live Exports Awareness Day’

And thirdly, ‘End this horror – sea in Faroe Islands turns red as 138 pilot whales slaughtered’