Fast-growing chickens spend their lives in pain so that farmers can make more money. Stop the sale now.

Our #AnimalOfTheMonth for October is dolphins, the curious, playful and clever mammals of the sea!

It’s summer, and here at OneKind Planet, we’re excited for the sunshine, holidays and BBQs outside! During the summer, it can be really easy to get caught up in the excitement of time off school and work and the good weather, but it’s important to remember that summer can be a difficult time for animals, whether that’s from the high temperatures or from us going on our summer holidays.

Everybody loves chocolate! In the UK, the average person spends more than £325 on chocolate every year, with 59% of Brits considering chocolate an essential part of their weekly shop. But when did you last stop to consider the ethics of how we make chocolate? From bean to bar When you unwrap your favourite chocolate…Read More

The meat and dairy industries like to say that leather is a “byproduct”. But, is it? Their arguments for this largely revolve around the following: Cowhide makes less money than beef. If we didn’t use leather, we would still farm cows for their meat, so the hide would go to waste. However, an alternate view…Read More

World Turtle Day® is a yearly celebration and day of awareness for all things turtle, tortoise and terrapin! It’s an opportunity to celebrate their diversity and preservation.

After much outrage and protests for a ban, Scotland and England finally made fox hunting illegal in 2002. Wales followed soon after, introducing a ban in 2004. Many thought these bans would finally be the end of this cruel, sadistic event that is popular with the middle classes. Yet it still continues to this day…Read More

We’ve all walked past litter on the ground before, but have you ever thought about the many ways that a seemingly harmless piece of litter could hurt an animal?

OneKind’s summer campaign this year has focused on how we can care for the mental health of our companion animals. It’s an important issue. So often, we think we are doing best by the animals we love and share our lives with, but, as our previous blog on the issues with breeding for looks shows,…Read More

Would you expose your friends and family to a life of suffering simply to make them look a certain way? No! How about the companion animals that share your home and heart? While we would never intentionally do our companion animals harm, when we breed animals specifically to enhance certain traits, this is what we…Read More

Camping is fun, but it’s important to remember that when we spend time in nature, we share our environment with wild animals – it is their home. All our actions have the ability to affect them, and we should act responsibly to make sure our impact is minimal. It would be unrealistic to expect to…Read More

The 4th of July is just around the corner. If you’re getting ready to celebrate, take a moment to think about your companion animals who may not enjoy the day as much as you. Give them a place to hide from fireworks While fireworks are fun for us, the loud noises and bright lights can…Read More

We’re well into summer now, so it’s the perfect time to talk about how to make sure our companion animals stay happy and healthy in the heat. They are just as susceptible as we are to heat and can suffer serious issues or even die if we neglect their needs. Luckily though, there are a…Read More

When it comes to choosing what food to eat, fish can be hard. Wild fishing has many problems. It destroys the seabed, animals get caught and die in nets and lost fishing gear floats around, polluting the seas. There is also the sustainability issue – catching high numbers of wild fish is causing some fish…Read More

One of the joys for people in urban areas is visiting the countryside for an uplifting dose of nature and fresh air. However, it is important to remember that the countryside is not only home to wildlife and local people but is also a working environment for people, including farmers, foresters and rangers. We all…Read More

Many people have discovered a love of nature and our green spaces over lockdown, valuable not just for their own sakes but also for our physical and mental wellbeing. Although we are starting to move forward from Covid-19, many of us will be spending another summer at home. Make the most of this by having…Read More