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Eat less meat says EU's largest agri-research agency
Chief Executive of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) agrees eating less meat and supporting small-scale farming are key to feeding the world.
Read moreSA for farm animal welfare, environment and health
Cape Town has become the first city in Africa to officially endorse one meat-free day a week.
Read moreVoting for Animal Welfare
With the UK General Election campaign now underway, Compassion supporters can raise the profile of our key farm animal welfare issues with their local Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs).
Read moreUK consumers vote for higher welfare chicken and eggs
British consumers voted with their shopping trolleys and bought more higher welfare chicken and eggs this year despite the fear that the recession would hit sales of higher welfare products.
Read moreThe 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.
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