HOW WE REACH A NATURE-FRIENDLY FUTURE HAS NEVER MATTERED MORE
This is a rather personal blog for me, because yesterday saw the launch of my third book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future. It’s been the culmination of three years of painstaking work, through Covid and beyond.
A Year of Progress in Unprecedented Times
As I look back over the past 12 months, my reflection comes with a mix of feelings: sadness for the hardship people, animals and our planet have suffered in the face of the ongoing pandemic and the nature and climate
Now We’re Here…How Do We Get Out? The Hidden Cost of Farmed Fish
Coinciding with the launch of Compassion in World Farming’s Rethink Fish campaign, Peter and Andrew invite CEO Philip Lymbery to reveal the true cost of farmed fish. The Scottish salmon farming industry is
Opening the Cages of the World Draft
Today, 2nd October, 2020 is World Farm Animals Day, and today is also the day the European Commission (EU) receives the successful European Citizens’ Initiative 'End the Cage Age' which calls on the EU to phase out the use of cages
DRAFT COPY TO TEST BOX
I am so pleased to announce that, having spent months defending the inhumane transport of unweaned calves from Scotland to Europe in the face of our campaign, the Scottish Government has finally conceded that this trade was in breach of
Sense, Science and Sustainability
Can Genome Editing and Agroecology co-exist in the sustainable food and farming mix? Industrial agriculture increases the “risk of future pandemics and needs to be tackled” as a global priority
Could humanity’s hoofprint overwhelm nature?
Global action is needed to alleviate poverty, address overconsumption of livestock products and move food systems to regenerative forms of conservation agriculture
Call for vets to back factory farming campaign – Vet Times
As the world wakes up to the news that a new virus with “pandemic potential” has been discovered in pigs, the role of factory farming as a breeding ground for disease comes into sharp focus.
Podcast – Animals Have Feelings Too
You probably already know that industrialised farming is chemically intensive and a big greenhouse gas polluter - but how much do you really know about animal agriculture?