February Compassionate World Blog Round Up
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For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from January and February, please use this great update
From news about nitrogen pollution to the live animal export ban, to bringing back beavers and the growth of mega-farms , plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
- Nitrogen: Diet and food waste key to tackling one of the great pollutants of our time
Nitrogen pollution is a large contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate, pollution, and biodiversity loss. - We must halt the invasion of the US mega farm to our countryside
Old MacDonald has a lot to answer for. - Beaver releases: Protesting Cairngorms farmers get things out of proportion
Beavers and landowners can sometimes come into conflict but these situations can be managed - 10 years after ‘Farmageddon’ – signs of hope for nature-friendly agriculture
Emergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside - Live animal export ban is a resolution the UK Government must keep
Thirty years after protests against live animal exports, the UK is on the cusp of making a historic change
Blogs
- THE HIDDEN CRUELTY ON OUR PLATES
1 Like on Social: Peter Stevenson OBE, Compassion in World Farming’s Chief Policy Advisor, makes a heartfelt plea to end the cruel factory farming of animals. Peter is a qualified solicitor and received an OBE in October 2020’ for “services to… Read more: THE HIDDEN CRUELTY ON OUR PLATES - THE SILENT POLLUTION HANGING OVER OUR COUNTRYSIDE
Like on Social: What’s in the air above our fields – and why it matters When Michele Franks opened her window one morning, she was met by a smell so overpowering she knew immediately what it meant. The nearby industrial… Read more: THE SILENT POLLUTION HANGING OVER OUR COUNTRYSIDE - FOR THE LOVE OF BEES
Why Learning to Look More Closely Matters - A CENTURY OF SEEING CLEARLY: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH AT 100
A tribute to the man who helped us understand the natural world – and why its fate is inseparable from our own - FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET
Like on Social: Of all the world records ever broken, perhaps the most striking has just happened beyond our planet. With Artemis II, humans travelled further from Earth than ever before, circling the Moon before splashing down safely back home.… Read more: FROM THE MOON TO MUD: WHY EARTH’S FINAL FRONTIER LIES BENEATH OUR FEET
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Up and Coming Speaker Events
- 7th Feb: Residence Palace, Brussels
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Animal Welfare in World Religion
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, The Politics of Food
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: Cultivated Meat – will it help our Future?
- 11th April: Harting Society
- 21st May: Farm Animal Congress in Brazil (online)
- 31st May: Hay Festival, Wales
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