For the love of jaguars
Today, as the world celebrates ‘International Jaguar Day’, marvelling at these magnificent and increasingly rare creatures, what few will draw is the connection...
29 November, 2020
“If animal welfare is close to your heart, this blog from Compassion in World Farming CEO and animal advocate Philip Lymbery is shining a light on animal reform. Pow Wow aims to inform, educate and debate the future of food, taking a 360-view of all aspects of the meat industry – humanity, animals (farmed and wild) and the planet. A difficult, but important, subject, Philip himself warns that the content of the blog ‘won’t always be pretty, but it’ll give you the facts and make you think – it is for all those who want to hear about the here, the now and the future’.
For those who want to see a future still filled with animals free and out in the wild, Pow Wow is a must read” – Vuelio June 2020
Philip’s Pow Wow blog has been rated a Top 10 Green Blog by Vuelio for three consecutive years: 2018, 2019 and 2020
Covid-Infected Exports to China: Why Meat Should Be Tested for Virus
News has broken over the past few days that China has detected the presence of the Covid-19 virus on packaging of frozen Argentine...
18 November, 2020
My Love of Animals
For us at Compassion, the 15th November is always a day to reflect on the legacy of our founder, Peter Roberts MBE, who...
15 November, 2020
Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet
Today, Tom Hunt, award-winning eco-chef, writer and climate change campaigner, is my guest blogger. His Bristol restaurant Poco, has won numerous awards including...
16 October, 2020
Opening the Cages of the World
Today, 2nd October, 2020 is World Farm Animals Day, and today is also the day the European Commission (EU) receives the successful European...
02 October, 2020
Victory for British calves!
I am so pleased to announce that, having spent months defending the inhumane transport of unweaned calves from Scotland to Europe in the...
24 September, 2020
Should meat be tested for Coronavirus?
Over the past few months there has been much in the news about serious outbreaks of Covid-19 affecting workers in meat plants and...
10 September, 2020
Justice for animals – not just kindness
To celebrate International Day of Charity, I’m privileged to share information on the wonderful work of South Africa’s Humane Education Trust of...
05 September, 2020
How to Bring Birds Back!
The annual British Birdwatching Fair or ‘Birdfair’, described as ‘the birder's Glastonbury’, has gone virtual this year due to Covid-19, running from 18th-21st August. ...
21 August, 2020
How Cheap Meat Threatens Elephants Too
August 12th this year marks World Elephant Day, when many will celebrate these wonderful creatures but also express concern at how these magnificent creatures...
11 August, 2020
Sense, Science and Sustainability
Can Genome Editing and Agroecology co-exist in the sustainable food and farming mix? Industrial agriculture increases the “risk of future pandemics and needs...
29 July, 2020
Council of the EU: Pandemic risk of industrial agriculture needs global action
“Industrial agriculture increases the ‘risk of future pandemics and needs to be tackled”, according to the EU’s ruling Council in Brussels, which calls...
20 July, 2020
Time to stand up for fish
Shoppers looking to well-known fish certification labels for higher standards of animal welfare are likely to be disappointed, according to the findings of...
14 July, 2020
Why the Time is Right for Transformational Change
As the world braces itself at the news that a new virus with ‘pandemic potential’ has been discovered in pigs, the role of...
08 July, 2020
The Wisdom of Fathers
My father-in-law, the late Peter Roberts, Founder of Compassion in World Farming, was a deeply spiritual man. When Peter was once asked to...
17 June, 2020
Another shocking live shipment story, but hope for an end to exports
Last Sunday (14th June), was the fifth annual Ban Live Exports: International Awareness Day, initiated by Compassion in World Farming to signal global...
16 June, 2020
Enhancing Nature’s Food Basket for All
Earlier this week I was delighted to accept an invitation to participate in the Act #ForNature Global Online Forum. This was an International Consultation...
08 June, 2020
Covid-19: How factory farming fuels pandemics
As the world waged war with the Coronavirus, our invisible enemy, billions of lives were turned upside down. It forced us to hunker...
05 June, 2020
‘Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals, has created this situation’
This week, I had the huge privilege of introducing wildlife legend Jane Goodall, PHD, DBE, Founder – The Jane Goodall Institute and UN...
03 June, 2020
Why Ending Factory Farming is Key to Post-Covid Sustainability
This week, I had the great honour to share the stage with wildlife legend, leading conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace, Dr Jane...
02 June, 2020
Rebuilding the great plains
Wanuskewin heritage park in Saskatchewan, Canada and officials are toasting a new arrival: the first wild bison calf here for more than a...
18 May, 2020
Coronavirus: Seizing the moment to save the future
Protecting the health service by staying at home has been a key message throughout this crisis. And a key point of grateful celebration...
16 May, 2020
Humanity, Habitats and Hope
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
Will goats (and other vegans) inherit the Earth?
Springtime in North Wales and the streets of the nation’s largest seaside resort are strangely silent, but for the sound of cloven hooves...
12 May, 2020
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...
08 May, 2020
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...
01 May, 2020
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,...
29 April, 2020
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...
25 April, 2020
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...
24 April, 2020
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...
22 April, 2020