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Published 01/08/2008News
Published 01/08/2008
Europe agrees: cloning is bad news
Cloning is bad for animals. We have long been saying this and now the European Food Safety Authority have agreed in their latest scientific opinion on cloning that cloning entails severe health and welfare problems.
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Published 18/07/2008
TB spreads to the Netherlands
Plea to end the calf export trade as tuberculosis spreads from a British farm to Europe.
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Published 07/07/2008
Report questions the need for sheep mutilations
The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has issued a new report saying that "castration and tail docking of lambs are mutilations which should not be undertaken without strong justification."
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Published 01/07/2008
Hellmann's UK goes free-range
In a groundbreaking move, Hellmann's UK has gone free-range on all mayonnaise.
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Published 27/06/2008
Chicken welfare dominates Tesco AGM
On Friday 27 June, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall took his campaign for a free-range future to the heart of Tesco plc. Supported by Compassion in World Farming, Hugh recruited over 100 Tesco shareholders and submitted a resolution for Tesco's AGM.
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Published 05/06/2008
Talk pushes alternatives to cuts and crates for pigs
In a series of workshops for the European Pig Producers Congress 2008, Phil Brooke, Welfare Development Manager for Compassion in World Farming argues that pig farming needs to move away from 'cuts and crates.'
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Published 05/06/2008
Consumers at risk from "chemical chicken" imports
The Food Standards Agency must stop imports from US chickens now that three cases of an MRSA strain previously only found in farm animals have been identified in humans.
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Published 04/06/2008
Government must address potential avian flu crisis
The latest outbreak of Avian Influenza in a poultry flock in Banbury, Oxford is an acute reminder that the threat of a major pandemic is not far away.
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Published 23/05/2008
Pressure keeps piling on Tesco
Things are really hotting up for Tesco. Not only has Compassion just launched a new phase of Tesco demos, but celebrity chef/chicken welfare champion Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has announced his master plan for a 'mass revolt' by Tesco…
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Published 22/05/2008
Beef crisis sparks debate over calf exports
News from the beef industry that Britain may face a significant shortfall in beef has sparked welcome debate over the fate of male dairy calves.
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