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Live transport disaster
Up to 5,000 cattle have died in a preventable live exports tragedy
Read moreLivestock in literature
From AA Milne's Piglet to Dick King-Smith's Babe, farm animals appear in some of our best-loved books. Here, we explain why the genre may need reinventing to reflect the harsh realities (well, some of them!) of life on most 21st-century farms.
Read moreCompassion’s ‘Time to Decide’ film wins award
Compassion celebrates a win for End the Cage Age as our campaign film receives an award
Read moreCompassion hosts The Free Lunch
Compassion dishes up free and sustainable fare in Brussels highlighting our broken food system
Read moreCompassion looks past #Piggate to the real scandal
As allegations about David Cameron’s university prank with a dead pig flood social media, the real issue of his inaction about factory farmed pigs has gone unnoticed
Read moreThe importance of baking with compassion
When dairy-free ice cream featured on The Great British Bake Off recently, it highlighted to us the potential for cookery shows to educate as well as entertain. And if free-from diets are in focus on TV, it's about time food provenance was too.
Read moreCages belong in museums not on farms
Compassion delivers rabbit cage to The Natural History Museum to consign cages to history
Read moreVictory! McDonald’s goes cage free
McDonald's has announced it will no longer use eggs from caged hens in its restaurants across the United States and Canada by 2025
Read moreMEPs vote to keep the EU a no clone zone
Compassion celebrates EU vote to ban the cloning of farm animals
Read moreCloning – a catastrophe in the making
Since the birth of Dolly the sheep, thousands of animals have been cloned worldwide. As yet, none have openly entered the European market, but this might be about to change if MEPs vote against legislation intended to keep the EU a no-clone…
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