How living on a farm helped teach me about the extraordinary value of soil
I love living on a farm. I’ve always wanted to be immersed in the folds of a rural setting, a place where things look different every day....
30 January, 2023
Big Table Round Up – January 2023
For all the environment, animal and food news from December and January, please use this great update.
From Live Export to our cost of living crisis and from World Soil Day to being kinder to animals, plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
Live animal exports: Will UK Government keep its promise to end this nightmare trade this year?
We have a big year in prospect on so many fronts. Battling against inflation, the war in Ukraine, and the coronation of a new King....
16 January, 2023
Cost of living crisis: A new year’s resolution to be kinder to animals can help cut bills and save the planet
“May you live in interesting times” is an English expression believed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. At first the words seem like a blessing, but with a little thought, the irony soon becomes clear....
02 January, 2023
The food industry is threatening our very survival
All life on our planet is interconnected and our future depends on treating it with compassion and respect. By recognising this, we can protect the world’s wildlife and soils as if our life depends on it – because it does. As things stand, we only have sixty harvests left. ...
27 December, 2022
As billionaires fantasise about moving to Mars, it’s time to embrace nature-friendly farming to save Earth from ‘Age of Loneliness’
With the festive season soon upon us during a winter of financial crisis, the world outside our window can feel distant. Especially where the cost of taking action to save the planet is concerned...
19 December, 2022
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Social Media
‘The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper’
W.B. Yeats pic.twitter.com/m7Tau0JF0s— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) January 1, 2023
#WorldWildlifeConservationDay
All life is connected and all life deserves #respect and #compassion, however small 🐛🪲🐝 🕷 pic.twitter.com/gBpgXXNmxV— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) December 4, 2022
Thor the walrus resting on a Hampshire beach overnight
Pls give this magnificent creature the respect & consideration it deserves
We all remember the tragic and heartbreaking fate of Freya in Norway
Thor is an example of our rare & precious wildlife, not a tourist attraction pic.twitter.com/fXO1kAPnyJ— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) December 12, 2022
Top Mention
Just imagine living your life as a factory farmed sow in one of these cages – facing a wall, unable to turn around but giving birth to your babies, over and over again
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book
Let’s write a good one and #EndTheCageAge for good@ciwf pic.twitter.com/W4mDHe1L8A— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) December 31, 2022
Speaker Events for 2023, now confirmed
- 9th Feb: Toppings, Edinburgh
- 15th Feb: Toppings in Bath on 15th February
- 21st Feb: Romney Street Group at the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall
- 23rd Feb: Probus speaking date in Petersfield
- 22nd March: NYC Bar Association Animal Law Committee Books at the Bar programme
- 25th March: Peter Roberts lecture at the Sheldonian, Oxford
- 26th April: Cambridge Alt Protein Project