Animal activism – to report or not?

Every now and then we get questions from worried readers – why do we report on actions carried out by animal activists? The readers’ message is often the same: whatever activists ‘reveal’ as ‘cruelties’, is usually nonsense or at best heavily spinned and dramatised, not worth any letter. So they say they are disappointed and don’t trust the media. Why on earth would we report on reports that harm the industry? Don’t we know they are rogue?   Yes,