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Published 16/07/2013News
Published 16/07/2013
Greater quantity or just better quality?
With the world population predicted to rise to around nine billion by 2050, experts believe that food production must increase dramatically – by further intensifying farming. But is this really the solution?
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Published 09/07/2013
Consumers want clearer labelling
Eight out of ten UK consumers want to know how their meat and dairy products are produced on pack, according to new research commissioned by Labelling Matters.
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Published 08/07/2013
Elvis Presley and the factory-farming exposé
We’re always on the lookout for others who are, like us, exposing the truth about factory farming. So we were pretty pleased to come across the little-known Belgian documentary LoveMEATender, which lifts the lid on the intensive-livestock…
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Published 03/07/2013
Eating Better
A new alliance has been formed between a group of NGOs, including Compassion in World Farming, WWF and Friends of the Earth.
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Published 02/07/2013
CAP reform is a disappointment
The hope was that the Common Agricultural Policy could be used to transform agriculture; steering it away from factory farming and towards more extensive farming with animal welfare at its heart.
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Published 01/07/2013
New alliance promotes "less and better" meat
Eat less, but better quality, meat. It’s a simple message, but one that – if it catches on – could transform the lives of people and farm animals everywhere. Yesterday, a new alliance of organisations across the UK was launched to spread the…
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Published 26/06/2013
The Bee Cause
Compassion has signed up to support the Bee Cause, a campaign led by Friends of the Earth to save Britain's honey and wild bees.
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Published 25/06/2013
G8 2013: leading the charge against hunger?
Just under a billion people in the world are malnourished. But the great irony is that there’s more than enough food to go around. At this month’s G8 summit, world leaders discussed the issue of food security.
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Published 23/06/2013
Ireland no friend to animal welfare
Compassion has recently undertaken an investigation into five pig farms in Ireland. The findings were worse than we could have imagined. Compassion's Investigation Unit identified multiple levels of cruelty, neglect and systematic…
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Published 18/06/2013
The end of the birds and the bees?
We all know that smoking kills, but did you know that a nicotine-based substance is lethal to bees, too? Global bee populations are in freefall, and one of the main reasons is the rise of neonicotinoid pesticides on crops.
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