Last month I attended a grants ceremony arranged by the Sydney based animal welfare group, Voiceless.  The ceremony also saw the launch of a report into the conditions faced by meat chickens in Australia.  Titled “From Nest to Nugget”, it is very thoroughly researched and contains a wealth of facts.  It was given some extra gravitas [...]

There has been a lot of publicity and justifiable disappointment about the decision by the voters of California to narrowly support – 52 per cent to 48 per cent – a proposal to change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in that state. But the result which really astonished [...]