“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. aiming 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… a must read” – Vuelio June 2020
Philip’s blog has been rated a Top 10 Green Blog by Vuelio for three consecutive years: 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Please Note: Vuelio will not be doing a Top 10 Green Blog ranking in 2021 but will resume this ranking in 2022
WHAT DESTRUCTION OF LOCAL TREES TAUGHT ME ABOUT INVESTING IN OUR ROOTS
I heard it happen before I saw it. The buzzing of chainsaws and clunking of machinery filled the countryside air around me during...
29 April, 2022
EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION: CAN CULTURED MEAT BE A GAME-CHANGER FOR FOOD?
In the wake of the world’s first commercial sale of cultured meat in Singapore, a pioneering symposium was hosted by animal welfare organisations, GAIA and...
27 April, 2022
WHAT HAVE PENGUINS GOT TO DO WITH FACTORY FARMING?
This World Penguin Day, we shine a light on the devastating link between factory farming and the plight of the penguin, and how...
25 April, 2022
Why we must scale down rather than scale up, for the well-being of animals, people and planet
As food prices escalate, Peter Stevenson OBE, Compassion in World Farming’s Chief Policy Advisor, explains why we must scale down rather than ramp...
20 April, 2022
WHY ISN’T DECENT FOOD A BASIC RIGHT FOR EVERYONE?
“You did what? And when we can’t even afford meat?!” exclaimed my mother when my dad told her he had been given too...
15 April, 2022
‘Impassioned, erudite, amusing….just fabulous’; Dame Joanna Lumley takes to the stage for Compassion
On Saturday 2nd April, our wonderful Patron, Joanna Lumley delivered an outstanding lecture to a sell-out audience at the Oxford Literary Festival. She...
05 April, 2022
WE LOVE OUR PETS, BUT DO WE KNOW WHAT GOES INTO THEIR FOOD?
Whichever way we look at it, we love our pets, and rightly so. They provide us with companionship, affection, a reason to go...
01 April, 2022
CELEBRATING BRITAIN’S ‘RAINFOREST’ RIVERS: WHAT WATER VOLES TELL US ABOUT OUR FUTURE HEALTH
Some of the best things in nature are understated. Take the chalk-streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through...
18 March, 2022
Australia: ‘It’s raining, it’s pouring, the PM is snoring’
What the 'rain bomb' in Australia tells us about our world. Three weeks ago, as Russia invaded Ukraine, a tragedy of a different...
16 March, 2022
IN SOLIDARITY AND WITH HOPE IN OUR HEARTS
These are deeply chilling times. As we watch the nightmare darken in Ukraine, with increasing scenes of destruction and devastation, our hearts go...
04 March, 2022
What Do Polar Bears Tell Us About Our Own Future?
Night-time and a piercing scream tore into the silence of the Arctic wilderness. Matt Dyer, a 49-year-old legal attorney from Maine, had been asleep...
04 March, 2022
BRINGING LANDSCAPES BURSTING TO LIFE THE NATURE-FRIENDLY WAY
When you close your eyes and imagine where the very best food comes from, what does it look like? In my experience, most people...
03 March, 2022
FUNDING DESTRUCTION
The power of investment banks to accelerate cruel and planet-destroying factory farming has again been highlighted recently following a massive injection of funding...
21 February, 2022
WHAT MY RESCUE DOG TAUGHT ME ABOUT LOVE
Sometimes I think my dog knows me better than I know myself. Before I know it, I’ve given away a clue, betrayed my...
16 February, 2022
IF PIGS WERE PETS
Empathy can be a powerful thing. Anyone who has a pet dog or cat gains fresh insight into their inner lives every day....
08 February, 2022
Wolves: Magical, Marginalised and Misunderstood
A crowd of a hundred people or more had gathered in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone National Park, USA. More were perched on...
04 February, 2022
WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND THE LOSS OF PRECIOUS WILDLIFE
Will our grandchildren ever get to see a puffin? ...
18 January, 2022
FANCY A NEW STYLE OF HEDONISM THIS JANUARY?
What do Paul McCartney, actor Alicia Silverstone, Everest mountaineer Kuntal Joisher and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have in common? Puzzled? Well,...
04 January, 2022
2021: A REVIEW OF THE YEAR
Despite a difficult year with profound challenges for all of us, not least from Covid, 2021 will be remembered for seeing some of...
31 December, 2021
WHATEVER OUR DIFFERENCES, HOW WILL YOU CELEBRATE NEW YEAR?
New Year’s Eve and the Roaring Twenties theme was about to begin. Accommodation on that cold, drizzly night was an old lighthouse with...
28 December, 2021
RENATURING: CREATING LIFELONG MEMORIES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Some things stay with you forever – like my first ever sighting of a golden eagle. I remember it like yesterday. The freshness...
13 December, 2021
THE SUPER-HEROES OF SOIL
World Soil Day took place on 5th December 2021, and what better time to celebrate the life force that exists under our feet? ...
06 December, 2021
THE POWER OF HAPPINESS
As we head into winter, I’m reminded of the strange happenings on the Arctic-archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, where a snow-covered rubbish dump...
30 November, 2021
Jaguars, Rewilding and the Factory Farm Frontline
As the world celebrates International Jaguar Day, there is both good and bad news on the battle to save this iconic species. There is...
29 November, 2021
The Hidden Threat of Antibiotic Misuse
Of late, we’ve been getting used to shortages of things we’ve previously taken for granted, like petrol, gas, toilet rolls, HGV drivers and...
22 November, 2021
COP26: MEAT ON THE MENU BUT NOT ON THE AGENDA
As the great and the good packed their bags and left Glasgow last weekend, we were left picking through the plethora of promises...
15 November, 2021
Kind: The Little Word With The Big Heart
Whatever way you view kindness, it's a thing to cherish. It's the key to a better world. Even the small acts of kindness make a...
13 November, 2021
Chris Packham CBE, takes the stage for The Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
Last Sunday, it was a great honour to welcome Chris Packham CBE to the stage of the magnificent Sheldonian Theatre, to deliver our Peter...
10 November, 2021
COP26 AND HOW WE CAN ALL HELP KEEP HOPE ALIVE
‘The last best chance to keep 1.5 alive’ was how COP26 was being seen, creating a huge focus for our collective hopes for...
08 November, 2021