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Published 28/11/2011News
Published 28/11/2011
Alarming rise in Ramsgate live exports
New figures collated by Compassion in World Farming suggest the total number of animals exported through Ramsgate is already more than 60,000 since May, with December - traditionally a busy month - still to come.
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Published 24/11/2011
Team Compassion is at it again!
Following the enormous success of Team Compassion's 'Walk with Compassion' event earlier this year, Hayley and Caroline from our very own Food Business team are getting on their running shoes on 4th December and taking part in this year's Santa…
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Published 23/11/2011
Call in the Powys Mega-Dairy decision
Compassion is being joined by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) in contesting controversial plans for a 1,000-cow mega-dairy in Powys after Councillors recently conditionally approved them.
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Published 16/11/2011
Farm animals consume nearly half of all antibiotics
A new alliance, consisting of Compassion in World Farming, The Soil Association and Sustain is launching a new report, to coincide with European Antibiotic Awareness Day, 2011. The report, Case Study of a Health Crisis, aims to 'save our…
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Published 11/11/2011
Consumers urged - check for illegal eggs
With 50 days to go until the EU barren battery cage ban, British consumers could unknowingly be eating illegally produced eggs come January. Compassion in World Farming is urging UK consumers to ask where the eggs in their food comes from.
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Published 10/11/2011
Dismay at EU live transport report
Compassion in World Farming is appalled that the European Commission's new report on the protection of live animals during transport does not propose any changes to the current legislation.
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Published 03/11/2011
Powys 'Mega-Dairy' decision step in wrong direction
Compassion in World Farming is dismayed by the news councillors in Powys indicated they are "minded to approve" an application to extend an existing farm to 1,000 cows.
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Published 31/10/2011
People competing with farm animals for food
As the seventh billionth person on the planet is born, Compassion in World Farming is warning that we need to feed people rather than factory farms by ending the competition for food between hungry people and intensively reared animals.
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Published 31/10/2011
Factory farming: it's a Filthy Business
Filthy Business is Compassion's campaign to curb and turnaround the growth of factory farming. At least 80% of the EU's farm animals are factory farmed, but politicians still project the sustainable and humane images of farming
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Published 25/10/2011
Bake with Compassion 2011 launches
This year our Bake with Compassion week, (22-30 October) kicked off with a tea party at Spitalfields City Farm in London. Supporters from across the country came laden with delicious cakes to share and swapped recipes using high welfare…
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