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.
However, the truth is, we’ve been locked in an almighty battle for some time now. A battle for the planet. A battle for our future health and wellbeing. A battle for a decent future for our children.
In the fight for a fairer and more compassionate world for animals and in the war against invisible pandemic enemies, never has there been a more potent example of why protecting people means protecting all animals too.
Midst the horror and tragedy of this Covid-19 crisis, we have some unique opportunities.
A real chance for the world to re-evaluate our lifestyles, our attitudes to food production and broken food systems, and the devastating impact of factory farming on all life..
2020 has been a tough year. It’s hard to put it into words. What started on an optimistic note, welcoming in the New Year, soon changed with the advent of Covid-19, as it spread around the globe with devastating effects....
11 December, 2020
News has broken over the past few days that China has detected the presence of the Covid-19 virus on packaging of frozen Argentine beef, German pork and Indian cuttlefish. ...
18 November, 2020
Over the past few months there has been much in the news about serious outbreaks of Covid-19 affecting workers in meat plants and slaughterhouses in several countries, including the UK....
10 September, 2020
“Industrial agriculture increases the ‘risk of future pandemics and needs to be tackled”, according to the EU’s ruling Council in Brussels, which calls for action to be taken on a global basis...
20 July, 2020
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 Anja Hazekamp and attended by......
02 June, 2020
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....
16 May, 2020
On Endangered Species Day (15th May), I reflect on the role of one of the major drivers of wildlife declines worldwide: factory farming....
15 May, 2020
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?...
08 May, 2020
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....
01 May, 2020
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)....
29 April, 2020
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....
24 April, 2020
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. ...
22 April, 2020
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....
30 March, 2020
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. ...
26 March, 2020