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Published 12/03/2010News
Published 12/03/2010
BUSINESSMAN BROUGHT TO JUSTICE OVER EGG MISLABELLING
A businessman who passed off potentially tens of millions of battery hen eggs as free range and sold them to supermarkets across England was jailed for three years on 11 March 2010.
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Published 03/03/2010
NOT SO SUPER DAIRY
Compassion in World Farming and WSPA have united to oppose the plans for Britain's biggest factory dairy farm.
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Published 23/02/2010
Factory Farming exposed in the Guardian
Between 20 and 23 February, the Guardian newspaper ran a series of extracts from the new book Eating Animals by acclaimed American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Published 22/02/2010
Battery cage BAN NOT postponed
Great news for caged hens - Poland's attempt to delay the Europe-wide ban on barren battery cages failed at a meeting of EU Council of Agriculture Ministers on February 22 2010.
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Published 18/02/2010
Dairy factory farm poses giant threat
Britain's biggest factory dairy farm poses a huge threat to animal welfare and small scale producers.
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Published 12/02/2010
Polish government wants battery cage ban postponed
Conventional battery cages, in which millions of egg-laying hens are confined, are due to be banned throughout the European Union (EU) in 2012. This is good news for hens.
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Published 09/02/2010
SHOCK FILM BACKS CALL TO END FACTORY FARMING
The film Food Inc. highlights the many negative impacts of intensive farming including the effects on human health, poor animal welfare, environmental pollution and loss of livelihood for small-scale farmers.
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Published 20/01/2010
Illegal rearing of Europe's pigs
Compassion in World Farming's undercover investigation - together with a report by the European Food Safety Authority - suggests that many of the 250 million pigs reared each year in the European Union are being farmed in illegal conditions.
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Published 18/01/2010
New food, farming & climate change report
Compassion welcomes the 'How low can we go?' report, published by WWF and the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN).
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Published 18/12/2009
Thousands of animals drown as cargo ship sinks
A ship transporting thousands of livestock from Uruguay to Syria has sunk off the Lebanon coast, highlighting this unnecessary and cruel trade.
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