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Protesters tell government: "End live exports"

Published 12/10/2012

Protesters tell government: "End live exports"

Protesters demanded an end to live exports from the UK today at a rally outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in London.

Published 11/10/2012

Pigs' postcard to Italy

Three not-so-little pigs were joined by two Compassion staff to deliver a postcard to the Italian state tourism office in central London.

Published 09/10/2012

Cow Power

Ben & Jerry's new ice-cream is helping to promote an initiative that improves the lives of Europe's dairy cows.

Published 09/10/2012

Putting better farming on the map

As shown in our last blog post, mapping can be a useful tool to highlight the scale and impacts of factory farming around the world. Now we take a look at the lighter side of mapping; at how this thinking can be used to showcase better farming.

Published 04/10/2012

Outrage over cloned GM calf

A genetically modified cloned calf, who can produce milk without the protein that is thought to cause allergies in infants, has been produced by scientists in New Zealand.

Published 04/10/2012

In defence of organic

The "organic" label has faced a bit of a roller-coaster ride in recent years. And a report from Stanford University has just added fuel to the fire. Here, we unpick the facts.

'Milkmen' deliver dairy petition to government

Published 02/10/2012

'Milkmen' deliver dairy petition to government

Compassion's 'milkmen' rode into central London yesterday (1st October) to deliver a petition to DEFRA calling for fair prices for the benefit of Britain's dairy farmers and their cows.

Published 02/10/2012

Putting factory farming on the map

It is said that humans were using maps before we even thought about writing stuff down. Mapping is just as useful today, although technological advances and unparalleled access to data has changed the playing field somewhat.