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Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry; Leah Garcés, Bloomsbury - This is the story of an American mom who took on the chicken industry and won. ...
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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about hope. In the face of fires devastating the 'lungs of the Earth’ in the Amazon, for instance, how do we find hope?...
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This article is based on my recent meeting with Compassion in World Farming Patron and well-known Downton Abbey actor, Peter Egan, for my Big Table podcast....
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Intensive Farming is Cruelly Short-sighted - The new IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on climate change and land makes a compelling case for a far-reaching rethink of food and farming....
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Billed as the first public engagement since moving into 10 Downing Street for Carrie Symonds, the UK Prime Minister’s partner, this was going to be no ordinary speaking engagement for me, or for Miss Symonds....
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Compassion is entirely neutral politically: our agenda is simply to get the very best outcomes for farm animals, regardless of who is in power. But the arrival of a new Prime Minister is an excellent moment to take stock....
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We have all ‘suffered alike’ Says Independent RSA Commission
Our current industrialised food and farming system has become “one of the main drivers of human and ecosystem crisis”, according to a new and influential report by the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.
The independent inquiry,...
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On World Population Day, a stark reminder what our planetary crisis means for our future on planet Earth. Imagine opening your morning newspaper to read the headline, “Government agrees to building a hundred new cities the size of London”. ...
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Yesterday, I was delighted to be in Brussels in the majestic ballroom of the Concert Noble at one of the highlights in Compassion’s annual calendar, our Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards...
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Last Friday 14th June, was our fourth annual international day of awareness initiated by Compassion in World Farming to demonstrate global opposition to the abhorrent trade of long distance transport of live animals....