‘Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals, has created this situation’
This week, I had the huge privilege of introducing wildlife legend Jane Goodall, PHD, DBE, Founder – The Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, to the global webinar, ‘Pandemics, wildlife and intensive animal farming,’
Why Ending Factory Farming is Key to Post-Covid Sustainability
This week, I had the great honour to share the stage with wildlife legend, leading conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace, Dr Jane Goodall at Compassion’s webinar event, Pandemics, Wildlife and Intensive Farming. The event was co-hosted by distinguished MEP
Rebuilding the great plains
Wanuskewin heritage park in Saskatchewan, Canada and officials are toasting a new arrival: the first wild bison calf here for more than a century.
Coronavirus: Seizing the moment to save the future
Protecting the health service by staying at home has been a key message throughout this crisis. And a key point of grateful celebration has been for those in the health service and other key workers.
Humanity, Habitats and Hope
On Endangered Species Day (15th May), I reflect on the role of one of the major drivers of wildlife declines worldwide: factory farming.
Will goats (and other vegans) inherit the Earth?
Springtime in North Wales and the streets of the nation’s largest seaside resort are strangely silent, but for the sound of cloven hooves on concrete. With residents in lockdown due to Covid-19, a local goat herd had spotted their chance
Why the true cost of cheap meat could be future pandemics
Just a few months ago, it would have seemed a stretch of the imagination; a pandemic from wildlife in a wet market in China causing billions of people to be locked down across the world?
Coronavirus – why protecting public health means ending factory farming
With the world gripped by the worst pandemic in a lifetime, questions are starting to be asked about how our treatment of animals is storing up health crises for the future.
Stopping the abuse of sentient animals, farmed and wild
In early April whilst most of the world was coming to terms with the horror of the Covid-19 pandemic, Compassion in World Farming, along with some 200 other organisations, signed an Open Letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Campaigning for Compassion: Be More Mosquito
On World Veterinary Day, Dr Marc Abraham BVM&S MRCVS, is my guest blogger. Here he shares his thoughts on campaigning and how we all have the power to make a difference.