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European Commission favours cloning by the back door
The European Commission has issued its Report on Animal Cloning for Food Production, which makes a strong ethical and welfare case for banning the cloning of animals for the food supply.
Read more'Animals' by Robert Davies
Robert Davies, outstanding artist and Compassion in World Farming supporter invites you to the Hilary Crisp Gallery, 3 Newman Passage London, W1T to see his remarkable exhibition 'Animals'.
Read moreCompassion supports World MRSA Day
Compassion in World Farming's Philip Lymbery has joined celebrities Leslie Ash and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to recognise the plight of the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who have suffered from MRSA.
Read more30,000 hens to be released from cages by British caterer
Compassion is celebrating after the announcement that one of the UK's largest catering companies, Westbury Street Holdings, is to switch to using solely RSPCA Freedom Food free-range eggs from 4 October 2010.
Read moreUnstunned Halal and Kosher Meat
Compassion in World Farming is calling on the UK Government to ensure that unstunned Halal and Kosher meat is not distributed to the wider communities and for greater transparency in terms of labelling.
Read moreAntibiotic-resistant E. coli & salmonella on UK farms
Scientists speaking at a conference yesterday revealed shocking new levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in intensively reared farm animals that have the potential to spread to humans.
Read moreTaxpayers' money could be used to fund 'mega-dairy'
Compassion in World Farming reveals today that those behind the proposed 'mega-dairy' farm in Lincolnshire have applied for public money and stated that without it, both animal welfare and environmental standards on the farm will be lowered.
Read moreBeef, Bread and Water lecture
Over 400 people crowded into Savoy Place in London on Monday 20 September 2010 to hear global farming and food experts debate key issues surrounding farming, the environment, water scarcity, food security and animal welfare.
Read moreCould cloned food be in our shops in two years?
In the Daily Mail article, 'Clone food in all our shops within 2 years' (Daily Mail, 16th September) the Food Standards Agency said that because of the difficulty in tracing cloned animals, it is impossible to halt the spread of cloning.
Read more"Big agriculture is the only option..."
Jay Rayner's article in the Observer, "Big agriculture is the only option to stop the world going hungry", reports that the dairy farmers the author has spoken to do not see animal welfare as an issue in the kind of "super-dairy" proposed at…
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