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Compassion looks past #Piggate to the real scandal

Published 22/09/2015

Compassion looks past #Piggate to the real scandal

As allegations about David Cameron’s university prank with a dead pig flood social media, the real issue of his inaction about factory farmed pigs has gone unnoticed

The importance of baking with compassion

Published 16/09/2015

The importance of baking with compassion

When dairy-free ice cream featured on The Great British Bake Off recently, it highlighted to us the potential for cookery shows to educate as well as entertain. And if free-from diets are in focus on TV, it's about time food provenance was too.

Published 14/09/2015

Cages belong in museums not on farms

Compassion delivers rabbit cage to The Natural History Museum to consign cages to history

Published 09/09/2015

Victory! McDonald’s goes cage free

McDonald's has announced it will no longer use eggs from caged hens in its restaurants across the United States and Canada by 2025

MEPs vote to keep the EU a no clone zone

Published 09/09/2015

MEPs vote to keep the EU a no clone zone

Compassion celebrates EU vote to ban the cloning of farm animals

Published 02/09/2015

Cloning – a catastrophe in the making

Since the birth of Dolly the sheep, thousands of animals have been cloned worldwide. As yet, none have openly entered the European market, but this might be about to change if MEPs vote against legislation intended to keep the EU a no-clone…

Suffering of thousands of EU calves exposed

Published 25/08/2015

Suffering of thousands of EU calves exposed

Shocking footage reveals appalling treatment of calves exported from the EU to Israel

Published 17/08/2015

Peter Egan on acting and animals

Actor Peter Egan helps dogs in war zones, welcomes foxes to his garden and is deeply moved by the plight of moon bears. He also abhors factory farming. Last week, we met up with our newest patron to discuss farm animals and the future of food.