On launching the petition, Dame Joanna Lumley, said: “Around 8 million UK laying hens spend most of their lives suffering ...

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This Christmas, Compassion in World Farming is urging the British public to make a few tweaks to their festive food to make it more animal and climate friendly. The animal welfare and environmental ...

As we look back on 2024, this momentous year will be remembered for the outstanding progress we achieved for farmed animals – enabled by your amazing, unwavering and steadfast support. Our progress ...

More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs.

A world without effective antibiotics is a terrifying but real prospect. When antibiotics are used and overused, the bacteria they are meant to kill can adapt and develop resistance, making these life ...

Organic production can offer animals higher welfare. In the UK organic pigs are outdoor reared (with access to straw bedded huts or tents and large paddocks). Sows and boars are kept in outdoor ...

Compassion In World Farming campaigns peacefully to end factory farming and create sustainable food systems that benefit animals, people, and the planet. Why? We believe that everyone has the right to ...

Octopuses are complex, intelligent, and sentient animals, very well known for their eight arms and their amazing cognitive abilities. Studies have shown that octopuses learn easily, can solve problems ...

Despite the vast body of evidence that shows factory farming to be a bad thing for animals, communities, our health and the planet, the spread of this backwards system of agriculture is showing no ...

In this article, Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor, Compassion in World Farming, considers whether the WTO rules still constitute as strong an obstacle to animal welfare measures as is often ...

Compassion believes that no animal should suffer for food production. A European Council Directive states: No animal shall be provided with food or liquid in a manner... which may cause unnecessary ...