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Published 03/09/2008News
Published 03/09/2008
European Parliament vote against cloning
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly against cloning animals for food at a meeting on 3 September 2008.
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Published 20/08/2008
M&S launch British rosé veal
The calves reared for Marks & Spencer's high-welfare British veal products, are fed whole milk, eat a natural diet and are group housed with straw bedding in well-lit barns throughout the rearing period.
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Published 07/08/2008
HIGHER WELFARE CHICKEN SALES CONTINUE TO SOAR
The welfare of chickens continues to be at the forefront of shoppers' minds, as Sainsbury's report increasing sales of higher welfare chicken. Sainsbury's has announced a 60% growth in higher welfare chicken and thus doubled its range this week.
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Published 01/08/2008
Europe agrees: cloning is bad news
Cloning is bad for animals. We have long been saying this and now the European Food Safety Authority have agreed in their latest scientific opinion on cloning that cloning entails severe health and welfare problems.
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Published 18/07/2008
TB spreads to the Netherlands
Plea to end the calf export trade as tuberculosis spreads from a British farm to Europe.
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Published 07/07/2008
Report questions the need for sheep mutilations
The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has issued a new report saying that "castration and tail docking of lambs are mutilations which should not be undertaken without strong justification."
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Published 01/07/2008
Hellmann's UK goes free-range
In a groundbreaking move, Hellmann's UK has gone free-range on all mayonnaise.
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Published 27/06/2008
Chicken welfare dominates Tesco AGM
On Friday 27 June, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall took his campaign for a free-range future to the heart of Tesco plc. Supported by Compassion in World Farming, Hugh recruited over 100 Tesco shareholders and submitted a resolution for Tesco's AGM.
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Published 05/06/2008
Talk pushes alternatives to cuts and crates for pigs
In a series of workshops for the European Pig Producers Congress 2008, Phil Brooke, Welfare Development Manager for Compassion in World Farming argues that pig farming needs to move away from 'cuts and crates.'
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