The 2024 United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, known as COP29, has drawn to a close, after ten days of ...

“It’s clear that the public and industry are in support of a ban on the use of cages for egg-laying hens, but the Government ...

Alongside our friends at Sustain, the alliance for better food & farming, and Friends of the Earth, we have released our new “Muck Map” showing where the most animal manure is produced by factory ...

Globally, around 92 billion farm animals are factory farmed every year. These intensive systems put production above all else, creating vast quantities of seemingly cheap meat, milk and eggs. But ...

There have long been concerns that their introduction to veterinary medicine (in 1993 in the UK, and earlier in some EU countries) might undermine their effectiveness in human medicine. As a result, ...

More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs.

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Despite the vast body of evidence that shows factory farming to be a bad thing for animals, communities, our health and the planet, the spread of this backwards system of agriculture is showing no ...

If you eat meat, the simplest thing you can do to help is to buy free-range chicken and poultry, free-range pork (or make sure it’s outdoor bred & reared) and grass-fed beef and lamb. Cheap meat ...

Compassion In World Farming campaigns peacefully to end factory farming and create sustainable food systems that benefit animals, people, and the planet. Why? We believe that everyone has the right to ...

Organic production can offer animals higher welfare. In the UK organic pigs are outdoor reared (with access to straw bedded huts or tents and large paddocks). Sows and boars are kept in outdoor ...

Back in 1950, chicken was eaten as a treat; British people ate less than a kilo in a whole year. Now, we eat on average 25kg in a year - that's more than 2 kg per month. Broilers (chickens farmed for ...