The Easter Bunny is an age-old imaginary character. A construct when, more often than not, an adult dresses up as a (much) larger than life rabbit, to hide Easter eggs. It brings a sense of fun and colour to Easter, and kids love it. The...
All of us at Compassion are hugely saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Richard Body. We are hugely indebted to Sir Richard for all he did to promote the cause of humane farming. He was a true friend to farmed pigs. His Private Members...
I often wonder in years to come, if future generations will look back on these times with despair and sadness when they see how we treated our fellow man and the animals who shared this planet with us....
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed today, 3 March 2018, as UN World Wildlife Day, the most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife in order to celebrate and raise awareness of the world's animals and indeed plants. This year, the day is celebrated with...
Perhaps it is only fitting that on World NGO Day, I am able to share with you our new, challenging and dynamic five-year plan aimed at achieving game-changing impact for farm animal welfare. To my mind, it has never been so important. Over the last half century,...
St. Valentine's Day is a special day to remember those we love. Love comes in many forms and we all express our love and fondness for one another in many different ways. Research tells us that animals help in allowing people to be more loving because...
With every passing day, evidence of the need for change in the way we feed ourselves mounts. The latest warning comes from a letter signed by an unprecedented 15,000 scientists warning that humanity faces ‘vast’ misery if it doesn’t urgently adopt environmentally sustainable alternatives to...
One day, in the not too distant future, we will look back on the practice of confining farm animals in cages and ask ourselves how society ever allowed that to happen – how did we ever permit such cruelty to become normal? Progress has been slow...
At a time when multiple companies are committing to higher welfare chicken across the globe, I’m at a loss when two of our major food business partners - who have traditionally been leaders in farm animal welfare – are taking a sideways step for chickens. I...
“Industrially produced meat and milk are cheap at the supermarket checkout” due to"an economic sleight of hand", as Compassion’s Chief Policy Advisor explained in a compelling presentation at our recent conference. "We’ve devised a distorting economics that takes account of some costs, such as housing and feeding animals, and...