ChickenTrack aims to drive compliance, encourage transparency and support the industry-wide transition to higher welfare ...

We are committed to transparency. To exercise effective governance and oversight, Compassion in World Farming benefits from the expertise and insight of a high-caliber board of trustees. This expert ...

Absolutely Fabulous star spearheads call to end the use of cages for all UK farmed animals Read more about our investigations.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) issued its 7th carbon budget this week (26th February) which highlights a critical issue: our current food system is a significant driver of climate change. It also ...

In January, we joined forces with our wonderful Patron, Joanna Lumley, to launch a parliamentary petition calling on the Government to end the use of cages for all UK farmed animals. In the UK, around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given a natural healthy life, cows can live for twenty years or more. High-yielding dairy cows will typically be slaughtered after three or four lactations because their milk production drops and/or ...

Compassion’s new briefing stresses the need to reduce global meat consumption by 50% by 2050. This is necessary to halt the destruction of wildlife habitats and to stop runaway… ...