Compassionate World

In this guest blog Duncan Williamson, Head of International Policy for Compassion in World Farming reflects on report of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change published yesterday.

This Easter Monday, 22nd April, we celebrate Earth Day. It is a hugely important day, a global event with more than 1 billion people across 192 countries expected to take part.

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages” This is a quote from Jacques Deval, the French playwright, screenwriter and film director. Perhaps he should have added ‘tiny, barren cages’!

Ahead of the famous Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, Graham Harvey, is my guest blogger for this week.  Famed award winning writer of the Archers Radio 4 drama series and country lover, Graham unveils a new storyline for rural Britain.

My research in California showed me that one of the biggest things we can do to preserve water, now and into the future, is to stop factory farming, a major driver of water misuse worldwide.

Amongst the swirling flags, meetings and conversations that make up the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), I spent the last days delivering the message that factory farming is the enemy of the natural world.

Why we need a Global Agreement on Food, Farming & Nature I have been at the United Nations in Nairobi, where I had the privilege of speaking at the UN Environment Assembly. I used this important platform to call for the

Whilst we all get to a point in our lives where we need to make important decisions, it feels to me that the whole world is currently in a state of flux and at a defining point in our history.

The continued transport of live farm animals for further fattening and slaughter is one of the most inhumane activities in the agricultural industry.