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News Section Icon Published 09/05/2008

Defra's Milk Roadmap - we need a better route

The Milk Roadmap, published this month by Defra, presents a 'cradle to grave' assessment of the environmental impacts of UK liquid milk production and highlights areas where efforts can be concentrated to reduce those impacts.

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News Section Icon Published 02/05/2008

UK egg producer supports a free-range future

Compassion in World Farming welcomes the decision from the UK's biggest egg supplier to support the free-range egg industry.

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News Section Icon Published 29/04/2008

The Good Egg Awards 2008: UK winners announced

Top UK companies named 'Good Eggs' whilst 62 per cent of British hens remain in battery cages.

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News Section Icon Published 28/04/2008

Joanna Lumley fronts egg campaign

Farm animal welfare campaigner and actress Joanna Lumley is fronting Compassion in World Farming's latest egg campaign:

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News Section Icon Published 28/04/2008

Going undercover - an investigator's account

An investigator for Compassion in World Farming visited a battery cage site in Devon. The conditions he found were horrendous yet legally acceptable. The investigation was featured exclusively in The Independent on Sunday.

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News Section Icon Published 23/04/2008

Compassion slams Government on support for cages

UK government advisory body, the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), is under fire following a recent report where it gave credence to so-called 'enriched' cages for laying hens.

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News Section Icon Published 23/04/2008

Pressure mounts on Tesco

Pressure is mounting on Tesco as demonstrators up and down the country are calling on the UK's largest supermarket to "Stop being rotten to chickens".

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News Section Icon Published 16/04/2008

Compassion comments on the IAASTD Report

Compassion in World Farming comments on the IAASTD Report

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News Section Icon Published 11/04/2008

Australia: Support for end to painful mulesing

Mulesing is a painful operation which involves cutting away areas of wrinkled skin from sheep in order to prevent flies from landing on the sheep and laying their eggs in the folds of skin. This is called "flystrike" in the farming industry.

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News Section Icon Published 28/03/2008

Complaint filed against pig ad

The British pig industry is using a new ad claiming that "British pig farms have very high welfare standards." We believe this is inaccurate and misleading and so we have made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.

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