Tag Archives: Animal welfare

If you don’t like noise, imagine how pets and other animals feel about it. Aleksey Boyko/Shutterstock Fay Clark, Anglia Ruskin University and Jacob Dunn, Anglia Ruskin University From construction projects to busy roads, aeroplanes and railways, human noise is everywhere. It is an invisible cause of stress, posing serious risks to human health and wellbeing. However, noise also harms animals …

Andreea Tudor/Shutterstock Martin Cohen, University of Hertfordshire Forget veggie burgers, fake bacon and cheese made from oats. For vegans at least, plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products have long since gone mainstream. Alt-fish – food made from plants that mimics the taste and texture of fish, or real fish tissue grown from stem cells – is the next big …

The pandemic shone a spotlight on the plight of exotic animals after the Netflix Tiger King series. It also resulted in a run on pet adoptions. But what is the state of animal welfare more than a year into the crisis? Tom Copus/Unsplash Kendra Coulter, Brock University Flashback one year ago to the early days of COVID-19, when tens of …