Our Animals Correspondent Bonzetta writes:

There’s been a bit of news this week about the environmental impact of farming animals. So let’s have another look at meat….

…featuring Sketching Weakly’s new Investigative Journalist, Agatha Frizbee. Over to you, Agatha!

Well, this week, it’s the Meat Special. And we ask the question:

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I’ve been down the supermarket…

and I’ve been having a good hard look at the Meat Aisle. And it seems to me that it’s quite difficult from the packets to see who your meat was. And we all want to know, don’t we? We want to know that they had a nice life before they became meat.

Although these packets are all very attractive, I think they could do more to introduce us to who we’re going to eat, and make the invisible visible. Here’s what they could be like:

Because if you’re going to eat someone, you’d want to know who you’re eating.

PS: Here’s some farming in the news.

Bonzetta, our Animals Correspondent, writes:

Want to join the Humanists, but realise you’re not human? Thinking of joining the Mammal Society, but remember that you’re a reptile? Finding it hard to join anything because you’re an amphibian? Or a fish? Or a plant? Well….join The RestOfTheWorldists!

With just a week till the election to go, the RestOfTheWorldists have been working on their Election Manifesto…

Maybe an environmentally-friendly political party might consider a rethink of the National Planning Policy Framework…

And just in from Tony – some action shots of Bonzetta working on her manifesto:….and still hard at it a bit later…

…mostly thinking about it….

Bonzetta, our Animals Correspondent, writes:

Want to join the Humanists, but realise you’re not human? Thinking of joining the Mammal Society, but remember that you’re a reptile? Finding it hard to join anything because you’re an amphibian? Or a fish? Or a plant? Well….join

The RestOfTheWorldists!

Yes – the rest of the World can’t talk, but someone needs to give us a voice.

Here’s a campaign by the RSPB which calls for an act of parliament that would oblige future governments to protect wildlife.

 Would you like a RestOfTheWorldists poster? Contact Sketching Weakly through Mini’s website here with your name and address (Subject: Poster) and we will send out posters to the first 10 who get in touch.

Bonzetta, our Animals Correspondent, writes:   Biodiversity offsetting is a tricky business. Almost impossible to calculate. So to make things easier we’ve packaged up some biodiversity nicely, and popped it in the Biodiversity Offsetting Corner Shop.

Bonzetta, our Animals Correspondent, writes:   According to the recent WWF Living Planet report, since the 1970s more than half of the wild vertebrate animals on Earth have quietly disappeared.