High Profile Supporters
The support of people in the public eye is a one of the key elements of a successful campaign and without the extra awareness they can generate it can be difficult to reach a wide audience.
The following celebrities have raised the profile of farm animal welfare with their work this year:
Jo Brand
"I'm pleased to get the opportunity to offer my support to the Good Egg Awards. I think it's really important to back the production of higher welfare eggs because even if it seems a small thing to you...(your support,not the eggs) if enough people do it,then hopefully the egg producers, (the food companies,not the chickens) will crack on and make changes. Egg puns are unintentional.
Let's lay this situation to rest.
All the best,
Jo Brand"
Alison Steadman
"I first witnessed battery hens in 1974 and the image has never left me. I couldn't believe the cruelty to these helpless trapped creatures. Since then I have never knowingly eaten battery eggs. We must continue to fight for cruelty free farming."
Brian Blessed
"Battery hens lead miserable lives confined in cages so small they do not even have room to spread their wings, let alone express their natural behaviours. I fully support any campaign which sets out to end their suffering and applaud those companies being celebrated by Compassion in World Farming’s Good Egg Awards. We have a duty to make sure that the animals we farm enjoy happy, healthy, productive lives. The commitment shown by these organisations is a significant move in the right direction."
Dave Spikey
"My wife and I have adopted many ex-battery hens through the years and it is one of my greatest joys to see them transform from the battered and traumatized birds that arrive, into these beautiful, inquisitive creatures scratching around my garden and bathing in the sun. I am delighted to support CIWF’s work and hope that the companies celebrated in this year’s Good Egg Awards serve as real ambassadors for change. Let’s hope that the horrors of the battery cage will eventually be consigned to history."
David Suchet
"I hope with all my heart we can eventually provide eggs to the nation from chickens who have been given 'quality life' in return for for the eggs they give us. That's a FAIR deal - isn't it?"
Paul O'Grady
"My gang of chickens will be very pleased to hear that millions of hens will live cage free thanks to the Good Egg Awards and the work of Compassion in World Farming. I love a good free range egg when I’m baking and I believe that being a nation of animal lovers – we need to remember that our farmyard friends are animals too!”
Twiggy Lawson
“What Compassion in World Farming is doing with the Good Egg Awards is crucial for a future beyond factory farming. I congratulate all the companies that are going cage-free on their eggs and hope consumers will, too. A cage-free egg costs just a couple of pennies more and it saves hens a life of misery. It means hens can flap their wings, live free and be hens and not factory units!”