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Cloning back on the EU agenda
The cloning of animals causes great suffering both for the cloned animals and for the surrogate mothers that carry them to birth.
Read moreUK should lead transport welfare calls
The UK's agricultural minister Jim Paice will have the chance to support shorter times for live animal transport in the EU in a meeting next week.
Read moreEU breaks own treaty with farming & fisheries reforms
Last week Compassion wrote to the President of the Commission, highlighting the disregard of Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). Compassion fears that the welfare of farm animals is being undermined.
Read moreA recipe for the future of food?
Inspired by Compassion's vision for a food and farming revolution, Michelin-star chef Paul Merrett talks cooking, collaboration and cobnuts...
Read more'Red Tractor' ranked lowest on animal welfare
The Red Tractor scheme ranked lowest in a new study by Compassion in World Farming and OneKind, and was found often to offer little more on animal welfare than compliance with minimum legislation.
Read moreEU sow stall ban: only 10 ready
Only 10 countries are prepared for new EU rules that will free millions of pigs from a life of confinement.
Read moreMore footage of pig abuse in UK farms
Yet again Compassion in World Farming has been left appalled and sickened by investigative footage released by an animals rights organisation.
Read moreEU pig industry above the law?
Compassion has highlighted the hidden misery of millions of pigs across the European Union and called on the EU Commission to investigate widespread flouting of EU laws designed to protect their welfare.
Read moreBritish company funds foie gras farm in China
A British company has been exposed by Compassion in World Farming and the Humane Society International for funding the development of a huge foie gras factory farm.
Read moreOver 326 million rabbits reared in the EU every year
Compassion is calling for a Rabbit Revolution. We recently carried out an investigation into rabbit farming within the EU. The results were shocking.
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