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News Section Icon Published 26/07/2013

Russian Pigs burned alive?

Compassion is seeking urgent action from the World Organisation for Animal Health (also known as the OIE) in response to horrifying footage appearing to show pigs in Russia being burned alive.

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News Section Icon Published 23/07/2013

Three fitness fanatics who swear by veg

Eat less but better meat. It’s the resounding dietary message of the moment, and we love to shout about it. So you can imagine how excited we are to come across fellow fans of the low-meat/no-meat lifestyle – especially when they’re top…

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News Section Icon Published 23/07/2013

EU welfare progress threat

Compassion made a submission to the Animal Health and Welfare and Food Safety Report published by the UK government on July 22nd.

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News Section Icon Published 22/07/2013

Know your labels

Recent research for the Labelling Matters campaign showed that consumers are concerned about animal welfare and they would support a method of production labelling system that told them how the animal was kept.

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News Section Icon Published 16/07/2013

Greater quantity or just better quality?

With the world population predicted to rise to around nine billion by 2050, experts believe that food production must increase dramatically – by further intensifying farming. But is this really the solution?

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News Section Icon Published 09/07/2013

Consumers want clearer labelling

Eight out of ten UK consumers want to know how their meat and dairy products are produced on pack, according to new research commissioned by Labelling Matters.

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News Section Icon Published 08/07/2013

Elvis Presley and the factory-farming exposé

We’re always on the lookout for others who are, like us, exposing the truth about factory farming. So we were pretty pleased to come across the little-known Belgian documentary LoveMEATender, which lifts the lid on the intensive-livestock…

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News Section Icon Published 03/07/2013

Eating Better

A new alliance has been formed between a group of NGOs, including Compassion in World Farming, WWF and Friends of the Earth.

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News Section Icon Published 02/07/2013

CAP reform is a disappointment

The hope was that the Common Agricultural Policy could be used to transform agriculture; steering it away from factory farming and towards more extensive farming with animal welfare at its heart.

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News Section Icon Published 01/07/2013

New alliance promotes "less and better" meat

Eat less, but better quality, meat. It’s a simple message, but one that – if it catches on – could transform the lives of people and farm animals everywhere. Yesterday, a new alliance of organisations across the UK was launched to spread the…

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