You may be surprised to know that the news that former shadow home secretary, David Davis, resigned over the extension of detaining terror suspects without charge to 42 days interests us here at PETA. Why? While the decision by Gordon Brown has been described by MPs as an ‘infringement on civil liberties’, what struck us as most interesting is the comparison we couldn’t help but make between these detainees and chickens. Yep, chickens.

Broiler chickens to be exact. These chickens that are raised for food, either in dingy, smelly and cramped factory farms, or ‘free range’, are generally slaughtered after just 42 days of life. Sure it must be horrible to be locked up in a cell for 42 days, but think about our billions of feathered friends who are bred to die after just, yep you got it, 42 days. Their life sucks from day one and there’s no fair trial at the end of the line for them. Just a death sentence. Now THAT sucks.

As you may know, the Budget took place yesterday and has been dubbed by the media as the ‘Green Budget’ due to its ‘environmentally friendly’ tax impositions. What I failed to see was the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient solution possible – a tax on meat. The UK, and the rest of the world too, should put tax on meat for a number of reasons: environmental, health and of course for the animals. Why? See what our friends from across the pond have to say on meat tax.