The Climate Change Committee (CCC) issued its 7th carbon budget this week (26th February) which highlights a critical issue: ...

Defra’s response also implies that it is not possible to ban cages in the UK and avoid the outsourcing of low welfare ...

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Absolutely Fabulous star spearheads call to end the use of cages for all UK farmed animals Read more about our investigations.

Our wonderful patron, Dame Joanna Lumley, spoke to an audience with our Global CEO, Philip Lymbery, last Friday (31st January) to mark the 10th anniversary of the best-selling book Farmageddon: the ...

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 ...

Factory farming is intensive farming systems that put production above all else, creating vast quantities of seemingly cheap meat, milk and eggs. Most of the 92 billion land animals farmed each year ...