The vegetarian in the abattoir

Henry Mance uncovers the inconvenient truths about our treatment of animals.

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When the Financial Times’s chief features writer Henry Mance turned up at Forge Farm Meats, an abattoir about…

“Turns Before the Before Curtain”

TUMBLEWEED An innocuous bramble cavorts onstage. Plague! Disaster! Rampage! “Biological pollution can’t be reversed!” The audience giggles at the silly rolling— Surprise! Ten thousand interlocking tumbleweeds bounce aggressively up into the grid, up and beyon…

What Triggers ‘Zoomies’ in Cats and Dogs?

One of the cutest, funniest things cats and especially dogs do has a decidedly not cute, not funny name: frenetic random activity periods, or FRAPs. Thankfully, the nickname for these adorably crazy bursts of energy is “the zoomies.”
One moment your canine BF…