I live in a small farm hamlet with my wife Helen and our dog, Duke. This place I call home is my lens for watching the countryside. Every day, I walk with Duke through the fields and woods and each day I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to witness nature in all its forms, through the changing seasons....
There are few creatures on Earth as striking as octopuses. They are remarkable marine cephalopod molluscs, in the same biological class as squid and cuttlefish and easily identified by their eight arms. They inhabit all marine habitats, ranging from tropical reefs to polar latitudes, where they are ecologically important species, being both carnivorous predators and an important prey for fish and marine mammals....
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man,” said Charles Darwin. Today is World Animal Day, a time to celebrate animals across the world, be they farmed, wild or companion animals....
As readers will know, Boris Johnson made an impassioned plea at the UN General Assembly for all countries to take action to reduce carbon emissions to save the planet from any further global warming ...
Months on and my local superstore still goes for weeks without having frozen veg available. And now shortages of seasonal labour, drivers and gas have raised political questions and sparked media headlines about the possibility of ‘Christmas being cancelled’....
Compassion in World Farming is urging world leaders to harness the momentum garnered at this week’s first-ever United Nations Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) to take clear and radical action towards transforming our broken global food system....
A coalition of meat industry associations has pushed for the upcoming UN food systems summit to boost global meat consumption and promote intensive livestock farming despite its environmental footprint, Unearthed can reveal....
Livestock groups have been lobbying the UN to support more meat and dairy production before a high-profile summit on food sustainability, documents reveal....
Alors que le sommet pour les systèmes alimentaires se réunit jeudi à New York, les industriels du secteur de la viande semblent particulièrement choyés, comme le révèle Greenpeace....
To my mind, the UN Secretary-General has done something extraordinary. In convening the Food Systems Summit, he has hoicked the issue of food to a place resembling where it should be – a major global issue that needs to be addressed urgently....
Il punto non è domandarsi se arriverà una prossima pandemia, ma quando. E allora bisogna giocare d’anticipo, con soluzioni a lungo termine. Come? Secondo gli esperti preservare gli ecosistemi è la migliore medicina...
Philip Lymbery is the head of the charity Compassion in World Farming, but he’s also a United Nations (UN) Food Systems Champion for the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit. There, world leaders will gather to talk about how we need to change the food we......
Author of The Longest Story, Richard Girling picks the five books you need to read about animals....
Record-shattering heatwaves have hit the northern hemisphere over recent weeks. Now, a newly-released video has brought the impact of that baking heat into sharp and distressing focus. It paints a horrifying picture of the world’s near future....
Just last week, we learnt about monstrous rains in China and Mumbai with hundreds dead. The week before we witnessed the worst floods for decades in Germany and Belgium with heavy loss of life....
Why the UN and global conversations could help save the Lapwing and other species...
The European Commission has unveiled plans to ban all cages for farmed animals within six years, in decision hailed as historic. The UK government, which claims Britain’s animal welfare standards are the highest in the world, is now being urged to follow suit....
'Pandemic on a Plate': Whilst the origin of #Covid has been linked to #wildlife in wet markets, the next one could come from pigs or chickens incarcerated in factory farms. Protecting human health means protecting animal health too....
The European Commission is under pressure to end caged animal farming in the next six years after policymakers in the European Union overwhelmingly voted to stop the practice to protect animal welfare as well as human and planetary health, responding to widespread public demand for the ban....
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the spotlight on meat supply and food security. We get three different perspectives on the future of global food production....
Our own future and the health of all life on Earth depends on us making peace with nature. Which is why it is crucial to seize the opportunity of this year’s UN Food Systems Summit not only to raise these concerns but explore solutions to address these....
According to the local tourist board, the small town of Dalby in Queensland, Australia, offers a taste of life as it used to be. Visitors are encouraged to explore by horse and cart, following a heritage trail to a museum displaying ancient farm machinery....
For millennia, farming has worked in harmony with nature. However, one human lifetime ago, things changed dramatically: farming became dominated by industrial agriculture....
If I could, I would force big meat eaters to visit a factory farm. Starting with the smell that burns the nostrils and makes you want to vomit....
The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), a globally recognised investor framework for assessing companies' performance on farm animal welfare, has released its annual report for 2020....
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding have evolved to insist on better treatment....
Saved on my old Dell, CD-RWs and, more recently, a flash drive as failsafe is a 660-page tome I’ve been writing for years. Referenced to the point of overkill, it’s a heavily-cited compilation of environmental ethics and moral philosophy, delving into humanity’s destructive bent....
Dan Saladino looks at the future role of genome editing for food. A public consultation is underway on technologies such as CRISPR. What could it mean for farmers and consumers?...
Translation of a Finnish book review of Dead Zone....
Philip Lymbery, the chief executive officer of Compassion in World Farming, calls industrial livestock “the cascade of cruelty of intensive animal farming.”...
Latest #Media – Shocking rate of species extinction threatens the health of the natural world on which humans depend
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Building on the aspirations of the UN Food Systems Summit Compassion convened a dialogue on 18th October, 2021 to explore how to scale regenerative agroecological production for better human, animal and planetary health.
Please view the recording of this special event here
If you missed the recent Chatham House, UNEP and Compassion in World Farming Webinar, please use this link to find out more and listen to the recording
The new date for the Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture with guest speaker, Chris Packham CBE, is now confirmed as Sunday 7th November 2021 at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Chris will be interviewed by Philip and there will be time for questions https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/