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
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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
Hope and Inspiration for World Animal Day
This article is based on my recent meeting with world-renowned primatologist and foremost expert on chimpanzees Dr Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger for...
04 October, 2018
WALKING FOR WILDLIFE AND ALL LIFE
Last Saturday, 22nd September, thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park, London and made history by participating in the first People’s Walk for Wildlife....
29 September, 2018
STANDING UP AGAINST CAGE CRUELTY
Launching the biggest ever campaign for farm animals I am hugely excited to be in Brussels for the launch of our biggest ever...
25 September, 2018
Food, Festivals & Feelings
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Grace Dent, award-winning restaurant critic, journalist, author and broadcaster, for my Big Table podcast....
21 September, 2018
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL NATURE
This article is based on my recent meeting with Chris Packham for my Big Table podcast....
07 September, 2018
FACTORY FARMING, HONEST LABELLING AND STRICTLY
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Deborah Meaden for my Big Table podcast....
04 September, 2018
FIRST ‘LUCY’S LAW’, NEXT FACTORY FARMING, MR GOVE?
What an absolute joy to hear of the success of the campaign for 'Lucy's Law' this week. Hats off to all involved in a...
28 August, 2018
Navigating the Moral Maze of Milk
Today is ‘World Plant Milk Day’, celebrating the health, environment and animal welfare credentials of plant milks like almond and soya. Now, I have...
22 August, 2018
If Pigs Were Pets
Empathy can be a powerful thing. Who would have predicted that millions of viewers connecting so deeply with the plight of a dead...
17 August, 2018
Scandal of Supermarket Gassing of Pigs
How did killing method condemned for cruelty become standard?...
10 August, 2018
Ways with Words
One of the most enjoyable but also important parts of my role working for Compassion in World Farming is meeting and speaking to...
23 July, 2018
AT THE UNITED NATIONS – Calling for a Global Agreement to End Industrial Agriculture
With a great sense of privilege and some apprehension, I stepped through the glass doors of the United Nations headquarters in New York...
16 July, 2018
PIG SLAUGHTER SCANDAL- Why Carbon Dioxide Is the Real Welfare Problem, Not the Shortage
Midsummer and the World Cup is in full swing, along with a rise in demand for food and drink. British media headlines are warning...
10 July, 2018
A Garden to Change the World
Like me, you may not associate gardening with the impacts of intensive animal agriculture, so I was intrigued to see there was a...
05 July, 2018
‘BEYOND MEAT’ HITS BRITAIN
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Seth Goldman, Chair of Beyond Meat for my Big Table podcast, which you can...
04 July, 2018
If Britain Factory Farmed Labradors
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Rosie Boycott, journalist, food campaigner, writer and activist, for my Big Table podcast, which...
04 July, 2018
Celebrating Farm Animal Welfare Awards
This week, here at Compassion in World Farming, we’ve been preparing to recognise and celebrate companies taking action to improve farm animal welfare....
22 June, 2018
Calling For A Compassionate World
Today, Thursday 14th June, many thousands of people, across 35 countries, from Brazil to Australia and from Ireland to Turkey are coming together...
14 June, 2018
Big Blue in Big Trouble
Dr Sylvia Earle, has been an inspiration to me for many years and is the ground-breaking author of The World Is Blue: How Our...
08 June, 2018
We Only Have One Planet
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, for my Big Table...
05 June, 2018
Encounters with Hay’s own Mistoffelees
This week I spoke at the Hay Festival 2018 and was asked to write about my experience. This blog first appeared on the Hay website 30th...
31 May, 2018
For the love of bees
We all love bees and it appears none more so than the British. The insects have been identified as the number one endangered species that...
20 May, 2018
Farming for nature: the Agriculture Bill opportunity
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a farming system that, instead of being a driver of wildlife decline, actually started to put...
11 May, 2018
Plight of the Penguins
Penguins are one of the most popular species on our planet, thanks in part to their fascinating communities and charming personalities....
25 April, 2018
Food that costs the earth
Earth Day this Sunday 22nd April, will highlight how humanity is threatening the survival of the planet and draw attention to the need...
22 April, 2018
Your Health Means the World
As the sun rises on another World Health Day this Saturday, we often choose to look within and focus on the small changes...
07 April, 2018