Right now, a Spanish company is racing to open the world’s first octopus mega-farm, where over one million of these intelligent, sentient creatures will be crammed into tiny, barren tanks, enduring immense suffering.Octopuses are known for their complex behaviours and sensitivity. They work together to find food, and sometimes share dens. Farmed octopuses will face stress, aggression, and slow deaths in these conditions—all because of a loophole ...

Israeli forces are ramping up the genocide in Gaza, killing more than 322 children since Israel broke the ceasefire. And they’re committing these atrocities with the help of Microsoft. Leaked documents have confirmed that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools that are being used to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far. Microsoft employees have been protesti...

It sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but it’s real: pregnant horses are restrained and drained of massive amounts of blood, leaving them weak and traumatized —all so the pharmaceutical industry can extract PMSG, a hormone used to fuel factory farms.And Iceland is at the center of this horror. As the only producer of PMSG in Europe, its blood farms keep industrial animal agriculture running across the continent. Without Iceland’s...

Photo of Gazal Bakr, a Palestinian child from Gaza, with one amputated leg, standing with crutches, in the hallway of the apartment she now lives in. Photo credit Samar Abu Elouf.Israel's occupation of Palestinian land is illegal, the International Court of Justice has confirmed.The Advisory Opinion of the UN's highest court makes clear that helping to maintain the occupation now would be illegal too. But that's exactly what our banks and pension...