Our wonderful patron, Dame Joanna Lumley, spoke to an audience with our Global CEO, Philip Lymbery, last Friday (31st January ...

Every year over sixty billion farm animals are reared for our food, the majority in factory farms. Compassion’s work is crucial to ending this global scandal of suffering and achieving a more ...

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

Octopuses are complex, intelligent, and sentient animals, very well known for their eight arms and their amazing cognitive abilities. Studies have shown that octopuses learn easily, can solve problems ...

A world without effective antibiotics is a terrifying but real prospect. When antibiotics are used and overused, the bacteria they are meant to kill can adapt and develop resistance, making these life ...

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In this article, Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor, Compassion in World Farming, considers whether the WTO rules still constitute as strong an obstacle to animal welfare measures as is often ...

Chickens slaughtered for Halal meat are not being stunned effectively. Instead of being rendered instantly unconscious when stunned, they will be receiving a painful electric shock that immobilises ...

The Paris Climate Agreement agreed to limit the rise in global temperatures to "well below 2°C" but stresses that the emission reductions pledged to date are insufficient to meet this crucial target.

Factory farming is intensive farming systems that put production above all else, creating vast quantities of seemingly cheap meat, milk and eggs. Most of the 92 billion land animals farmed each year ...

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 ...

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 ...