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UK egg producer supports a free-range future
Compassion in World Farming welcomes the decision from the UK's biggest egg supplier to support the free-range egg industry.
Read moreThe Good Egg Awards 2008: UK winners announced
Top UK companies named 'Good Eggs' whilst 62 per cent of British hens remain in battery cages.
Read moreJoanna Lumley fronts egg campaign
Farm animal welfare campaigner and actress Joanna Lumley is fronting Compassion in World Farming's latest egg campaign:
Read moreGoing undercover - an investigator's account
An investigator for Compassion in World Farming visited a battery cage site in Devon. The conditions he found were horrendous yet legally acceptable. The investigation was featured exclusively in The Independent on Sunday.
Read moreCompassion slams Government on support for cages
UK government advisory body, the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), is under fire following a recent report where it gave credence to so-called 'enriched' cages for laying hens.
Read morePressure mounts on Tesco
Pressure is mounting on Tesco as demonstrators up and down the country are calling on the UK's largest supermarket to "Stop being rotten to chickens".
Read moreCompassion comments on the IAASTD Report
Compassion in World Farming comments on the IAASTD Report
Read moreAustralia: Support for end to painful mulesing
Mulesing is a painful operation which involves cutting away areas of wrinkled skin from sheep in order to prevent flies from landing on the sheep and laying their eggs in the folds of skin. This is called "flystrike" in the farming industry.
Read moreComplaint filed against pig ad
The British pig industry is using a new ad claiming that "British pig farms have very high welfare standards." We believe this is inaccurate and misleading and so we have made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Read moreSpanish Transport Complaint
Compassion in World Farming and Animals' Angels have logged a formal complaint to the European Commission after discovering that the Spanish authorities are turning a blind eye to animals travelling long and illegal journeys.
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