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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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 ...

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

As part of our campaign to End.It and stop factory farming, we have released our new “Muck Map” alongside our friends at Sustain, the alliance for better food & farming, and Friends of the Earth. This ...

The aim of cloning farm animals is to produce replicas of the animals with the highest economic value, for example the fastest-growing pigs or the highest-yielding dairy cows. However the process of ...

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 ...

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

Back in 1950, chicken was eaten as a treat; British people ate less than a kilo in a whole year. Now, we eat on average 25kg in a year - that's more than 2 kg per month. Broilers (chickens farmed for ...