Octopus farming? This extraordinary and intelligent animal should stay in the ocean
By any measure, octopuses are remarkable: they have eight legs, three hearts and blue-green blood....
22 November, 2022
Big Table Round Up – November 2022
For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from October and November, please use this great update
From the devastation of avian flu to COP27, and from the industrial farming of octopus to sustainable farming and food waste, plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
The King’s clear thinking on climate change will be missed at COP27
It seems a fitting descriptor for a period that has seen a global pandemic followed by a brutal new war in Europe, a cost-of-living crisis and political turmoil with three UK prime ministers in three months....
07 November, 2022
Pumpkins rotting in fields like zombies are a reminder of the terrifying cost of food waste
Children dart excitedly through a field strewn with bright orange pumpkins. Parents, gamely face-painted as ghouls, sip coffee as they await the return of their offspring....
24 October, 2022
The business of staying in business
I’m often asked what the role of business should be in creating a sustainable future? I see business as a critical change maker, whether it be on climate, nature, health, or animal welfare....
17 October, 2022
Avian flu ravaging Scotland’s wild birds began in poultry farms
Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, sombre figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses....
10 October, 2022
Blogs
Social Media
The factory farming of octopuses seems completely at odds with everything we understand about this species and everything we know that is morally and ethically right 🐙
My Op-ed in @TheScotsman @ciwf pic.twitter.com/50tW0WlWFZ— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) November 22, 2022
The warnings are coming thick and fast now and Lymberys is clear , concise and truly frightening – we are burning and poisoning the global larder . But we have solutions that we must implement now . @philip_ciwf #SixtyHarvestsLeft pic.twitter.com/6qudnbmMa0
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) October 27, 2022
Photo of our valued @ciwf Patron @JaneGoodallUK in her younger days, with her beloved dog Rusty.
When you think of animals as individuals, it brings home the sheer scale and magnitude of humanity’s abuse of sentient creatures across the world pic.twitter.com/WzA2DVKdtb— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) November 5, 2022
Top Mention
Factory farming of this incredible animal is set to begin – Philip Lymbery @TheScotsman
Yet the farming of octopus seems completely at odds with everything we understand about this species and everything we know that is morally and ethically right@ciwfhttps://t.co/8O70t6xYjD
— Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) November 21, 2022
Speaker Events for 2023, now confirmed
- 16th Jan: 5 x 15 date ‘Earth’ on 16th Jan with Isabella Tree and Rosie Boycott
- 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