Three horses died in the opening hours of the Cheltenham Festival, and more are sure to follow. How many horses must perish before horse-racing is put out to pasture once and for all? More than 400 horses die in racing in the UK every year. Surely we have evolved enough...

This week sees the woeful return of Crufts, Britain's annual genetic-mutant pageant. The entrants in this sad spectacle would not be out of place in a Victorian freak show - except that they're dogs. The unfortunate canines paraded around the ring have been bred to impress judges at Crufts at...

When I saw Rachel Wilson-Couch's piece about vegetarians who eat veal, I naturally assumed she was being alliteratively tongue-in-cheek. No one with a conscience would eat the bodies of calves who spend their short lives in misery. In fact, veal is often what prompts people to switch to...