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.
CORONAVIRUS: WHY PEOPLE AND ANIMALS ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
In the battle against the Coronavirus pandemic, the biggest global crisis in a lifetime, it has been wonderful to see our celebration of humanity, together with a refocus on things that are important: the wellbeing of one and all.
Earth Day: A Walk on the Wild Side
Covid-19 has turned everything upside down for us all. Today’s Earth Day, would have seen me in the United States on a long-planned field trip to investigate environmental destruction caused by factory farming.
An Easter like no other
As we head into the weekend, having experienced another week of warm spring sunshine, I’d like to take a moment to think about Easter during this extraordinary lockdown period.
Covid-19: How are you?
Compassion was the word chosen by our founder over half a century ago to encapsulate the very best quality in humanity, a sentiment as true today, in the midst of this Coronavirus pandemic, as ever.
Why Protecting People Means Protecting Animals Too
I last wrote about the coronavirus at the end of January. At that time, news of the devastating Covid-19 outbreak had led to swift action by the authorities in China, banning the trade in wildlife.
SILENT FIELDS AND EMPTY SKIES
Today, 3rd March 2020, is World Wildlife Day #WWD2020. A day to celebrate the wonders of nature. All the wondrous wild animals and plants that exist in the world, but so often only glimpsed on television thanks to the efforts