February Compassionate World Blog Round Up
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For all the animal, farming, food and environment news from January and February, please use this great update
From news about nitrogen pollution to the live animal export ban, to bringing back beavers and the growth of mega-farms , plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
- Nitrogen: Diet and food waste key to tackling one of the great pollutants of our timeNitrogen pollution is a large contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
- We must halt the invasion of the US mega farm to our countrysideOld MacDonald has a lot to answer for.
- Beaver releases: Protesting Cairngorms farmers get things out of proportionBeavers and landowners can sometimes come into conflict but these situations can be managed
- 10 years after ‘Farmageddon’ – signs of hope for nature-friendly agricultureEmergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside
- Live animal export ban is a resolution the UK Government must keepThirty years after protests against live animal exports, the UK is on the cusp of making a historic change
Blogs
- Enough is Enough: How One Word Can Change the World1 Like on Social: There comes a time in everyone’s life where you have to put your foot down and say, “enough is enough”. I remember that moment well. I was left shattered and shaking inside. I couldn’t believe what… Read more: Enough is Enough: How One Word Can Change the World
- The Misery of Merely Existing – the Scandal of Animal Factories94 Like on Social: If you only read one article today, 2nd October 2024, World Farm Animals Day, please make it this one. What is ‘quality of life’? What is a life worth living? And who decides? ‘Quality of Life’… Read more: The Misery of Merely Existing – the Scandal of Animal Factories
- Why Europe’s Newfound Consensus on Food and Farming Matters to YouBrussels Consensus Reached on the Need to Ban Confinement Cages in Animal Farming
- End of the Olympics? How Climate Change & Diets are Threatening the Future of SportLike on Social: With the Paris Olympics now done and dusted and the Paralympics hotting up to a climax, the big question is, could we be seeing the last of big sporting events? After all, the intense heat felt in… Read more: End of the Olympics? How Climate Change & Diets are Threatening the Future of Sport
- For The Love Of All Life6 Like on Social: Why we must face and act on the crisis facing humankind, animals and our planet A special guest blog by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna The Food Crisis It’s a world of crises. Crises which are… Read more: For The Love Of All Life
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Up and Coming Speaker Events
- 7th Feb: Residence Palace, Brussels
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Animal Welfare in World Religion
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, The Politics of Food
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival, Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
- 16th Mar: Oxford Lit Festival: Cultivated Meat – will it help our Future?
- 11th April: Harting Society
- 21st May: Farm Animal Congress in Brazil (online)
- 31st May: Hay Festival, Wales