Policy and economics
A Review of Brexit: getting the best Brexit deal for animals.
This report takes stock of progress on animal welfare in the post-Brexit period, and evaluates what progress has been made.
Download (PDF 3.97MB)How to transition to a nourishing, sustainable, equitable and humane food system
If we want a better system we will need to embark on far-reaching changes. The question is, how can these be achieved?
Download (PDF 1.53MB)Precision livestock farming: could it drive the livestock sector in the wrong direction?
A new Compassion paper delivered at a conference in 2017 explains why Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) could drive the livestock sector in the wrong direction.
Read morePaying the true costs of our meat, eggs and dairy
The bleak lives imposed on industrially farmed animals are justified by the assertion that this gives us cheap food. And indeed, industrially produced meat and milk are cheap at…
Download (PDF 0.55MB)Towards a healthy, sustainable, humane food and farming system
The harmful impacts of intensive animal agriculture on the environment, biodiversity, human health and food security are now well-known. Added to that is the suffering caused to…
Download (PDF 0.49MB)Sowing Fresh Seeds: Food, Farming and Animal Welfare post Brexit
As the UK will no longer be tied into the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, Brexit gives us the opportunity to think about food and farming from scratch. Compassion in World…
Download (PDF 0.67MB)Making sense of CETA
CETA: An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
Download (PDF 4.41MB)Case studies for humane and sustainable farming
Case studies showing how inspirational farmers run commercial enterprises using more humane and sustainable methods:
Read moreSelling Off the Farm
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a free trade agreement being negotiated between the European Union and the United States.
Download (PDF 20.58MB)A Way Forward for Crisis-Hit EU Dairy and Pig Sectors
The EU pig and dairy sectors are being engulfed by a crisis of overproduction and falling prices. Agriculture Ministers are looking to help farmers with intervention measures to…
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