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Factory farming: it's a Filthy Business
Filthy Business is Compassion's campaign to curb and turnaround the growth of factory farming. At least 80% of the EU's farm animals are factory farmed, but politicians still project the sustainable and humane images of farming
Read moreBake with Compassion 2011 launches
This year our Bake with Compassion week, (22-30 October) kicked off with a tea party at Spitalfields City Farm in London. Supporters from across the country came laden with delicious cakes to share and swapped recipes using high welfare…
Read moreCompassion awards Europe's food industry
Compassion in World Farming presented Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards to some of Europe's top food manufacturers, retailers and producers at an awards evening in Paris last night (Thursday 20 October).
Read moreTelling porkies!
Hundreds of 'Pork Not Porkies' posters plastered across the UK claim that pork stamped with a Red Tractor logo, is high welfare pork. Having considered the Red Tractor standards, Compassion feels the adverts to be untrue and misleading.
Read moreCompassion uses World Egg Day to highlight cage cruelty
Compassion in World Farming has released a hard-hitting web video to coincide with British Egg Week and World Egg Day (Friday 14th October) asking people to put themselves in the place of caged creatures.
Read moreCAP 'reforms' fail Europe's farm animals
The CAP proposals that were officially revealed by the European Commission yesterday, fail to support farmers who want to introduce higher welfare systems on their farms.
Read moreEU Illegal Eggs a Major Concern
Compassion has called for strict time limits in new Commission plan on battery eggs
Read moreIt's official, Compassion really is EXCELLENT!
Compassion in World Farming is delighted to announce that last night (Wednesday 28 September) our Annual Review 2009/2010 won a Third Sector Excellence Award 2011!
Read moreBattery cage ban - the final countdown
As the countdown to the EU barren battery cage ban enters its final 100 days, Compassion in World Farming is still very concerned by the lack of compliance in some EU countries.
Read moreCompassion Netherlands campaigns for Dutch pigs
Barren conditions are one of the many factors that contribute to animal suffering in factory farming.
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