If you can't cope with the adopted animal living in your home, is it ok to just...give it back? Lily Allen has been making the news this week, as PETA urge her not to try animal adoption again, following her last foray into animal adoption ending abruptly. And is this kind of celeb gossip worth discussing at all? Or is it a case of always taking every opportunity to advocate for animals? Carlos, Julie & Ant discuss this, as well as twelve other stories from the week's vegan & animal rights news covered in today's show...

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This week's stories:

https://www.league.org.uk/news-and-resources/news/urgent-calls-to-close-fox-hunting-loophole/  

https://babel.ua/en/news/110277-the-horse-fell-during-work-animal-rights-activists-insist-on-banning-the-carriage-business-in-lviv 

https://www.farminguk.com/news/plans-for-targeted-badger-culls-scrapped-by-labour_65217.html 

https://www.theanimalreader.com/2024/08/27/facebook-instagram-fail-ban-illegal-puppy-trade-four-paws/ 

https://plantbasednews.org/culture/film/evanna-lynch-animated-film-sanctuary/ 

https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/soy-milk-better-cows-milk-health/ 

(original study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11340166/ )

https://www.theanimalreader.com/2024/08/23/mass-dog-grave-turkey/

https://www.farminguk.com/news/egg-labelling-rules-relaxed-to-support-farmers-through-bird-flu-outbreaks_65195.html 

https://plantbasednews.org/culture/music/vegan-catering-massive-attack-festival/

https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/ahdb-meat-dairy-campaign/  

https://www.peta.org/blog/peta-uk-tells-farrow-ball-take-a-tint/ 

https://www.farminguk.com/news/bbc-s-controversial-btb-documentary-missed-key-evidence-_65197.html 

https://protectthewild.substack.com/p/shocking-move-labour-expands-badger

https://news.sky.com/story/lily-allen-admits-she-returned-puppy-adopted-during-covid-pandemic-for-eating-family-passports-13201929 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/pets-lily-allen-badly-behaved-dogs-cats 

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