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Supporting Content

• An explanation of Online First.

  

• Would You Eat An Alien? - illustrations

• Professor Christine Nicol

  Professor Christine Nicol obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and then completed a PhD on the welfare of laying hens housed in battery cages.  Her concern for the led to her involvement with many committees and working groups that oversaw the European ban on battery cages in 2012 and the .
  
  She continues to work with NGOs and industry to further improve welfare standards of hens and is also interested in the welfare of all domestic animal species, whether kept for food, research, entertainment or companionship.
  
  In 2001, she was appointed Professor of Animal Welfare at the University of Bristol and jointly awarded the prince Laurent Foundation Prize for work on equine welfare.  In 2012 she was awarded the for outstanding achievements in animal welfare science, and in 2015 she published her book .Ìý

  

• Jake Yapp

  is a writer, composer and comedian, with writing and performing credits including Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe on ´óÏó´«Ã½2, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
  
  As well as television, Jake spent three years working on the 6Music Breakfast Show, writing, performing and producing hourly songs and sketches. He also wrote and performed for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4Extra, in which he played a little old lady called Dora Dale.
  
  His online clip has attracted nearly 100,000 views, and, inexplicably, resulted in appearances on Feedback, Broadcasting House and the Now Show.
  
  He’s a committed vegan of four years’ standing, and has reached a point where soy milk no longer tastes like wet cardboard. He hopes his egalitarian approach to animals will enable him to make the right decision in this programme.