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Press Release Section Icon 16/02/2022

Compassion in World Farming invites entries to its 2022 Sustainable Food and Farming Awards

Compassion in World Farming is inviting entries to its 2022 Sustainable Food and Farming Awards established to recognise producers and businesses that are taking steps to produce higher welfare meat, dairy and eggs in ways that protect…

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Press Release Section Icon 02/02/2022

Many European farmers still give their animals too many antibiotics

Despite the bloc’s strict rules, drugs often compensate for poor welfare

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Press Release Section Icon 01/02/2022

Pig sector calls for urgent government summit as backlog tops 170,000

As many as 170,000 pigs are still backlogged on farms as a result of the ongoing labour crisis crippling the sector, while the government’s support package is “not working”, the National Pig Association and NFU have warned.

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Press Release Section Icon 25/01/2022

We're eating the planet to death' - Can 'lab-grown' cultivated meat help save the world?

Around a third of consumers are willing to try cultivated meat, according to research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

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Press Release Section Icon 24/01/2022

Forget being vegan, go planet-friendly 'regen' (and you can still eat meat)

Keen to eat food that’s kind to the planet, but don’t want to forgo steak? Regenerative eating prioritises nurturing the soil

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Press Release Section Icon 24/01/2022

The big idea: should animals have the same rights as humans?

The government has finally caught up with what most animal behavioural scientists have been saying for years by formally recognising animals as sentient beings in its animal welfare (sentience) bill.

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Press Release Section Icon 21/01/2022

How will Defra’s alternative to CAP subsidies work?

George Eustice says three new initiatives will help boost biodiversity. But how will it affect food production and farmers’ bottom lines?

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Press Release Section Icon 21/01/2022

Greens v ‘beefatarians’: Europeans go to war over their dinner

With meat consumption twice the global average, citizens of EU27 have to reconcile environmental concerns and culinary traditions

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Press Release Section Icon 21/01/2022

European Parliament calls for better animal protection during transport

The recommendations, which the parliament’s plenary adopted during its session on Thursday (20 January), call on the European Commission to make the EU’s animal transport rules more ambitious and bring them in line with the most recent…

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Press Release Section Icon 17/01/2022

5 steps to prepare to meet Better Chicken Commitment

As companies get closer to their purchase pledge deadlines, there are steps that should be started now, Compassion in World Farming says

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