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...

Campaign Update: During the March 18 AGM, we forced this issue into the spotlight by co-filing a shareholder resolution demanding Maersk disclose its human rights due diligence and halt shipments to Israel. We had over 70 civil society organizations backing us and widespread media coverage. Despite Maersk’s denials, the company eventually admitted to shipping military cargo to Israel. We ran an ad in one of Denmark's largest daily newspapers, flo...

Beagles are being bred to suffer, used as disposable tools in cruel laboratory experiments, and then discarded like old equipment — all for corporate profit.This hidden industry, legal in both the UK and the USA, breeds beagles on factory farms for testing by Big Pharma and major cosmetic brands. These gentle dogs endure lives of misery, subjected to toxicity testing, pharmaceutical research, and trials for big cosmetic corporations, only to be k...

The UK Government banned bee-killing pesticides called neonicotinoids in 2018, and resisted industry pressure up until now to make any exceptions. That’s just changed. The government has now decided to let sugar beet producers in England use seeds treated with the toxic neonic thiamethoxam. It’s called an “emergency derogation”, and it’s a disaster. We fought hard to secure that Europe-wide neonicotinoids ban. It’s a lifeline to bees and other...