As long as animals are framed as units of production rather than individuals with interests of their own, policy will only ever adjust the terms of their use, never end it.

Why Banning Cages Isn’t Ending Confinement

The government’s announcement that hen cages and pig farrowing crates will be phased out is being sold as a moral breakthrough.

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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields. Damage caused by carbon pollution from the oil/gas production, between £119bn and £336bn. Benefit, £28.7bn. Oil/Gas would be sold in world markets, not just kept for the UK.

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

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90% of England’s water industry owned by foreign investors, often holed up in tax havens. Customers treated as cash cows £88.4bn paid in dividends since privatisation 1 trillion litres of water a year, 20% of household supply, lost to leaks. 41trn lost since privatisation. Investment neglected.

The case for nationalisation of water companies

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...

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www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil... Capitalists have always scapegoated vulnerable groups to distract our attention from their immoral accumulation of wealth. Estimates that Farage has accumulated £2million since 2024 reinforces that argument. Reject Ableism #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Disability Rights UK Statement on Reform's attack on Disabled people

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Which podcasts do you enjoy? In the Sociological Review magazine, Alice Bloch, Executive Producer of the Uncommon Sense podcast, quizzes her colleagues and shares their recommendations for further compelling, engaging listening. Share your favourites in the comments. buff.ly/XREoAqa

bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j... Street vendors sold food and worked the crowd at medieval public executions. In 2026 journalists worked the crowd as they publicly executed the character of Jason Arday to sell papers. Reject the commodification of cruelty #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/new... The closer we get to a vegan diet the cooler the planet 🌍 🥵 #WeAreCompanionSpecies

New Study Reveals Vegan Diets Generate 75% Less Greenhouse Gases Than Meat-Heavy Diets

The most comprehensive research to date shows just how harmful a meat-heavy diet is to the environment compared to vegan diets. Read more here!

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Access to good quality water is a fundamental social right. Water should never be a market commodity.

Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis.bsky.social · last mo.

Privatisation is threatening our water security.

Just as every with every other capitalist driven crisis that came before, the working classes will bear the brunt of the climate crisis.

LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · last mo.

Extreme heat is as a public health threat, but its impacts are deeply unequal. Heat deaths in England & Wales are rooted in housing inequality: poorer people, renters, older people & residents of dense urban areas are hit hardest – Philip Broadbent @uofgshw.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

Maybe vertical drinking is a crucial aspect of British life, and it's appropriate for Downing Street to intervene. In the meantime, however, Number 10's howling silence about the climate emergency - amidst drought, fire and crop failure - continues. #Priorities www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs

Westminster council has recommended banning ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy

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Goats are slammed, hit, tossed around like ragdolls, & violently sheared for mohair 💔 Once you hear their screams of pure pain & terror, you’ll leave mohair on the rack.

This is why I don’t consume dairy products. The structural violence embedded in the animal industrial complex is intolerable to me. #WeAreCompanionSpecies

MarcPieterse@marcpieterse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WATCH AND SHARE 🙏 youtu.be/MfM3xqcm70Y?...

Speciesism demands that we treat wildlife as invaders that need to be controlled. A social justice approach demands that we treat wildlife as neighbours that deserve our respect. #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Herbiⓥore@herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The city is not just ours. It never was.

#organic #FreeRange #Eggs #CageFree #Dairy #meat ‘[ANIMAL PRODUCTS] trash the living world 🌍➡️ 🗑️, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet’ Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said in no uncertain terms 🌱 Challenge22.com

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Resistance to injustice comes in many forms and is demonstrated by many species. #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Graham Use ALT@grahamm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You enslave me & reduce me to the condition & status of an object. But I resist & struggle to liberate myself. In doing so I reaffirm my individuality, my autonomy & my refusal to be classified as object or property. I reinstate myself as a political animal. We are #OneBillionScreams

‘Disabled people spend their lives adapting to environments designed for somebody else’. Exactly the attributes astronauts need. Reject ableism #WeAreCompanionSpecies

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

After decades assuming disabled people would struggle in spaceflight, researchers are finally asking what they can contribute.

The diversity of the England football team represent the multicultural fabric of the modern English state. ‘They are here because you were there’ (Sivanandan) Reject racism #WeAreCompanionSpecies

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

It could be time for a new idea of what Englishness really means – and footballers are helping to shape it.

Football is not coming home. However, this article articulates the fact that football’s true value lies beyond the result in our collective memories and identities as heroic failures that span generations.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

The English are bonded over an ever growing list of football disappointments.

There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

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Linking animal products to the cruelty that produced it is a start. If you don’t eat animal body parts these cruel practices stop. #WeAreCompanionSpecies

MarcPieterse@marcpieterse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Switzerland Rolls Out Labels Flagging Animal Suffering In Food Products via @PlantBasedNews STOP. USING. AND. EATING. ANIMALS. 🙏 #LiveVegan 💚 plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/fo...

After years of pressure and broken promises, the European Commission has published the Livestock Strategy – confirming plans to ban cages for hens and mother pigs. But what else was included? Vinciane Patelou, who heads up our EU work, explains! @ciwf_eu

Capitalism motivates the pursuit of new markets and new sentient beings (human and nonhuman) to exploit for profit. Boycott all products produced by animal exploitation. #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Herbiⓥore@herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"An online petition is calling for guinea pigs not to be eaten in Wales after a couple were granted permission to breed the small mammal to kill for its meat"

Structural violence feels invisible because it is normalised by the state. Force feeding ducks and geese via metal tubes inserted into their throats for profit is state sanctioned violence. Boycott foie gras, all sentient lives matter. #WeAreCompsnionSpecies

Philip Lymbery@philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Government drops manifesto pledge to ban foie gras imports Opens in new window “The government has rowed back on a manifesto pledge to ban imports of foie gras in order to secure a trade deal with the EU” www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2026...

British military equipment has been found on Sudanese battlefields. That's because, since 2021, Britain has shipped £284m+ of armaments to the RSF’s main backer, the UAE. The government must suspend all military exports to the UAE without further delay.

UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group

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The climate crisis is also a crisis for capitalism. Unlike the banking crisis the cost of this crisis cannot be passed solely onto the working classes. All classes will burn 🔥 #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 3mo ago

Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.

Do the capitalist class not realise that the climate crisis will consume them also? The pursuit of profit at any cost is in their DNA #WeAreCompanionSpecies

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

This is structural violence. The result of Thatcher and her free market allies in the media labelling striking miners as enemies of the state. Reject classism #WeAreCompanionSpecies

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3mo ago

18th of June 1984, the Battle of Orgreave takes place. Here we see Lesley Boulton, a woman who'd come to document the strike on camera just before she was hit by Police. The officer was never identified, because officers had removed their collar numbers www.reddit.com/r/UtterlyUni...

The finance curse is devouring the UK. Finance industry controls significant parts of the economy. It extracts wealth, destroys jobs, weakens economy, thinks short-term. Govts protect it whilst neglecting other productive areas. Can't rebuild economy without downsizing finance.

The finance curse is devouring the UK

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...

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NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record. All down to Trump's wars, Brexit and British deindustrialisation. Too much reliance on imports. The state can easily mitigate by manufacturing generic drugs. It was a Labour 2019 manifesto pledge.

NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record, say pharmacists and GPs

Supply problems pose risk to health, with common painkillers, epilepsy medication and HRT affected

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I’ve backed a motion calling for prison education to be brought back in-house. Too many institutions are failing to deliver the standards of education people deserve. We need a system that supports educators to do their jobs properly and gives prisoners a real chance to turn their lives around.