WHY OUR PLANET NEEDS LESS MEAT AND MORE EXTENSIVE FARMING
Intensive Farming is Cruelly Short-sighted - The new IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on climate change and land makes a compelling...
23 August, 2019
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Celebrity Line-up Debate ‘State Of The Earth’
Billed as the first public engagement since moving into 10 Downing Street for Carrie Symonds, the UK Prime Minister’s partner, this was going to...
17 August, 2019
Compassion’s Agenda for the New British Prime Minister
Compassion is entirely neutral politically: our agenda is simply to get the very best outcomes for farm animals, regardless of who is in...
19 July, 2019
Reform Farming to Avert Global Crisis
We have all ‘suffered alike’ Says Independent RSA Commission Our current industrialised food and farming system has become “one of the main drivers of...
16 July, 2019
100 Extra Cities The Size Of London
On World Population Day, a stark reminder what our planetary crisis means for our future on planet Earth. Imagine opening your morning newspaper...
11 July, 2019
Celebrating Commitments for Farm Animals
Yesterday, I was delighted to be in Brussels in the majestic ballroom of the Concert Noble at one of the highlights in Compassion’s...
27 June, 2019
United for Animals
Last Friday 14th June, was our fourth annual international day of awareness initiated by Compassion in World Farming to demonstrate global opposition to...
19 June, 2019
Battle for the Planet: Why Ending Factory Farming is Key
Compassion at the heart of a new breed of ‘animal welfare environmentalists’ The world received a timely reminder of the perilous state of...
05 June, 2019
WILD FOR LIFE
I have always been entranced by Mother Nature ever since I was a very young boy and my mother brought me my first...
17 May, 2019
CHRIS PACKHAM ASKS ‘WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BIRDSONG STOPS?’
I was privileged to join legendary naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham in London’s Berkeley Square this week at a pop-up conservation event to...
10 May, 2019
A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF ROSEMARY MARSHALL
ROSEMARY MARSHALL - August 29th 1941 - March 28th 2019 I first met Rosemary thirty years ago. She was a well-established area contact for Compassion...
07 May, 2019
Pigs, Poultry and Climate Change
In this guest blog Duncan Williamson, Head of International Policy for Compassion in World Farming reflects on report of the UK’s Committee on...
03 May, 2019
Spare A Thought for Mother Earth
This Easter Monday, 22nd April, we celebrate Earth Day. It is a hugely important day, a global event with more than 1 billion...
21 April, 2019
Not So Happy Easter Chicks
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages” This is a quote from Jacques Deval, the French...
18 April, 2019
Let’s ReCreate A Climate Friendly Landscape
Ahead of the famous Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, Graham Harvey, is my guest blogger for this week. Famed award winning writer of...
26 March, 2019
Conserve Water: Turn The Tap Off On Factory Farming
My research in California showed me that one of the biggest things we can do to preserve water, now and into the future,...
22 March, 2019
COMPASSION TAKES NEW VISION FOR FOOD TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Amongst the swirling flags, meetings and conversations that make up the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), I spent the last days delivering the...
15 March, 2019
MY MESSAGE TO THE UN
Why we need a Global Agreement on Food, Farming & Nature I have been at the United Nations in Nairobi, where I had the...
14 March, 2019
On The Road To The United Nations
I’m honoured to have been invited to be keynote speaker at the United Nations in Nairobi, contributing to crucial discussions about the future...
07 March, 2019
Life at a crossroads
Whilst we all get to a point in our lives where we need to make important decisions, it feels to me that the...
02 March, 2019
The Power of One
The continued transport of live farm animals for further fattening and slaughter is one of the most inhumane activities in the agricultural industry....
23 February, 2019
If Pigs were Pets
It's St Valentine's Day today and if you believe the media, it's also the perfect excuse to treat another special companion in your...
14 February, 2019
How Birds Shaped My Life
Forty years ago, as an avid member of the RSPB’s Young Ornithologist’s Club (YOC), I took part in a project to find Britain’s...
25 January, 2019
For the love of all nature
On the day the highly respected naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham has been announced as the latest patron to join Compassion in World...
10 January, 2019
THEIR WORLD IN OUR HANDS
As the world grows another year older, we turn to reflect on times past, present and of course, the future. It's been a...
31 December, 2018
Leaders of the world must lead
Today is World Wildlife Conservation Day, launched just a few years ago to raise awareness of illegal wildlife trafficking. I’ve worked to protect...
04 December, 2018
Landmark event shows how eating more plants can save the planet
This blog is based on my Big Table podcast recorded at this week’s historic dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London, which you can...
30 November, 2018
Respect For Our Food
This article is based on my recent meeting with Allan Jenkins, Editor of the Observer Food Monthly, for my Big Table podcast....
16 November, 2018
Big Change Starts With Recognition
Big change starts with recognition. It was encouraging then to see animal welfare being recognised as an issue of importance in China at...
05 November, 2018
Eating the Planet
“How come that a species capable of creating a rocket that goes to the moon is destroying its only home?” Jane Goodall PhD,...
16 October, 2018