Fish are often seen to be at the bottom of the pile when it comes to how we view animals. The general assumption is that fish are not furry and pettable, and therefore, they fall outside citizens’ scope of moral concern...
This week, here at Compassion in World Farming, we’ve been preparing to recognise and celebrate companies taking action to improve farm animal welfare. Yesterday, I was thrilled to introduce our 11th annual Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards at Les Salons Hoche, Paris, hosted by Alex...
Today, Thursday 14th June, many thousands of people, across 35 countries, from Brazil to Australia and from Ireland to Turkey are coming together in an outpouring of compassion for the animals who suffer during long distance transport. ...
Dr Sylvia Earle, has been an inspiration to me for many years and is the ground-breaking author of The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Oceans Are One. She is a marine biologist, explorer, lecturer and founder of Mission Blue, whose aim is to...
Philip meets the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, Erik Solheim to discuss the UNEP's priorities and finds out how fixing the global food system is central to its work....
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, for my Big Table podcast....
This week I spoke at the Hay Festival 2018 and was asked to write about my experience. This blog first appeared on the Hay website 30th May 2018...
We all love bees and it appears none more so than the British. The insects have been identified as the number one endangered species that Britons would save. ...
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a farming system that, instead of being a driver of wildlife decline, actually started to put things back? That started to regenerate the soil naturally? That started to bring back birds, bees and butterflies?...
Secret footage shows chicks being debeaked, a process used by Britain’s leading high-welfare egg producer - Sunday Times...