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EU welfare progress threat
Compassion made a submission to the Animal Health and Welfare and Food Safety Report published by the UK government on July 22nd.
Read moreKnow your labels
Recent research for the Labelling Matters campaign showed that consumers are concerned about animal welfare and they would support a method of production labelling system that told them how the animal was kept.
Read moreGreater quantity or just better quality?
With the world population predicted to rise to around nine billion by 2050, experts believe that food production must increase dramatically – by further intensifying farming. But is this really the solution?
Read moreConsumers want clearer labelling
Eight out of ten UK consumers want to know how their meat and dairy products are produced on pack, according to new research commissioned by Labelling Matters.
Read moreElvis Presley and the factory-farming exposé
We’re always on the lookout for others who are, like us, exposing the truth about factory farming. So we were pretty pleased to come across the little-known Belgian documentary LoveMEATender, which lifts the lid on the intensive-livestock…
Read moreEating Better
A new alliance has been formed between a group of NGOs, including Compassion in World Farming, WWF and Friends of the Earth.
Read moreCAP reform is a disappointment
The hope was that the Common Agricultural Policy could be used to transform agriculture; steering it away from factory farming and towards more extensive farming with animal welfare at its heart.
Read moreNew alliance promotes "less and better" meat
Eat less, but better quality, meat. It’s a simple message, but one that – if it catches on – could transform the lives of people and farm animals everywhere. Yesterday, a new alliance of organisations across the UK was launched to spread the…
Read moreThe Bee Cause
Compassion has signed up to support the Bee Cause, a campaign led by Friends of the Earth to save Britain's honey and wild bees.
Read moreG8 2013: leading the charge against hunger?
Just under a billion people in the world are malnourished. But the great irony is that there’s more than enough food to go around. At this month’s G8 summit, world leaders discussed the issue of food security.
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