Resources for students

Complete List of resources

Farm Animals & Us
19 minute film. Watch the amazing abilities of pigs and hens. See how they live in intensive and free-range systems. Decide how you think farm animals should live. For ages 10-14.

Farm Animals & Us 2
19 minute film. Watch wild pigs and farmed pigs, wild chickens and farmed chickens. How should we reconcile our needs for food and efficient production with our responsibility to keep animals in humane conditions? For ages 14 to adult.

Intensive Farming and the Welfare of Farm Animals
Booklet ( 1599.65KB). Read about intensive farming and its alternatives. How does it affect the welfare of animals, the environment, food security and rural employment? How can we feed the world without cruelty to animals? Also covers selective breeding and its effects on farm animal welfare.

Campaigns for Farm Animal Welfare
Archive booklet ( 1758.75KB) telling the story of the successful campaigns to ban the sow stall in the UK and the conventional battery cage in Europe. Includes websites of animal welfare, environmental and farming groups for further research about current campaigns.

Animal Welfare Aspects of Good Agricultural Practice – Pig Production

• Film. See how the natural behaviour of pigs inherited from their wild ancestors and how some behaviours are thwarted in intensive pig farming. See practical methods of higher welfare pig farming. Includes interviews with farmers, scientists, supermarket buyer and a veterinarian. For ages 16+.
• Book. Includes detailed chapters on the natural behaviour and welfare of pigs. Also covers economic, legal and environmental aspects, as well as 25 case studies which document attempts to improve welfare in a range of pig production systems including indoor and outdoor systems.
• PowerPoint presentation. Lavishly illustrated interactive presentation including video clips on the natural behaviour and welfare of pigs.

Eat Less Meat
17 minute archive film arguing that high levels of meat consumption are damaging for the environment, food security, attempts to feed the poor, human health and animal welfare. For ages 14 to adult.

WTO – Wrecking Animal Protection
11 minute archive film arguing that the rules of the World Trade Organisation have damaged attempts to protect turtles and animals kept for research, trapped for fur and farmed for meat and eggs. For ages 14 to adult - contains scenes which will cause distress to some viewers.

Let’s Ask the Animals
22 minute film from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB). Learn about the needs of animals with some lovely farm animal stories. For ages 7-11, but people of all ages will love this film.

Stimulus Response
26 minute film from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB). Uses great farm animal stories to teach about the nervous system, reflexes and animal behaviour. For ages 14 to adult.

Resources in French and Spanish
Booklets on intensive farming and its effects on animal welfare and the environment, animal sentiency and the effects of world trade rules on animal protection.

Ethics and Animal Farming – Web-based software
Web-based and interactive ethical decision making. Decide how organic farming, compared to intensive farming, will affect farmers, consumers, animals and the environment. Covers laying hens, pigs and farmed salmon. For ages 16 and above.

For detailed scientific reports and briefings on a range of animal welfare issues, visit our publications section.