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The shame of Australia's live export deaths
More than 250 cattle have died during a sea journey of over two weeks from Australia to Egypt. They were among the 16,460 cattle on board an animal transport ship named the Ocean Shearer.
Read moreCompassion debates future of dairy on British television
Compassion has taken the debate over the future of dairy farming to national television - and you will be able to see the discussion for yourself on Countryfile in the next two weeks.
Read moreBUSINESSMAN BROUGHT TO JUSTICE OVER EGG MISLABELLING
A businessman who passed off potentially tens of millions of battery hen eggs as free range and sold them to supermarkets across England was jailed for three years on 11 March 2010.
Read moreNOT SO SUPER DAIRY
Compassion in World Farming and WSPA have united to oppose the plans for Britain's biggest factory dairy farm.
Read moreFactory Farming exposed in the Guardian
Between 20 and 23 February, the Guardian newspaper ran a series of extracts from the new book Eating Animals by acclaimed American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.
Read moreBattery cage BAN NOT postponed
Great news for caged hens - Poland's attempt to delay the Europe-wide ban on barren battery cages failed at a meeting of EU Council of Agriculture Ministers on February 22 2010.
Read moreDairy factory farm poses giant threat
Britain's biggest factory dairy farm poses a huge threat to animal welfare and small scale producers.
Read morePolish government wants battery cage ban postponed
Conventional battery cages, in which millions of egg-laying hens are confined, are due to be banned throughout the European Union (EU) in 2012. This is good news for hens.
Read moreSHOCK FILM BACKS CALL TO END FACTORY FARMING
The film Food Inc. highlights the many negative impacts of intensive farming including the effects on human health, poor animal welfare, environmental pollution and loss of livelihood for small-scale farmers.
Read moreIllegal rearing of Europe's pigs
Compassion in World Farming's undercover investigation - together with a report by the European Food Safety Authority - suggests that many of the 250 million pigs reared each year in the European Union are being farmed in illegal conditions.
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