Every year over sixty billion farm animals are reared for our food, the majority in factory farms. Compassion’s work is crucial to ending this global scandal of suffering and achieving a more ...

Chickens slaughtered for Halal meat are not being stunned effectively. Instead of being rendered instantly unconscious when stunned, they will be receiving a painful electric shock that immobilises ...

On launching the petition, Dame Joanna Lumley, said: “Around 8 million UK laying hens spend most of their lives suffering ...

In this article, Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor, Compassion in World Farming, considers whether the WTO rules still constitute as strong an obstacle to animal welfare measures as is often ...

More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs.

A world without effective antibiotics is a terrifying but real prospect. When antibiotics are used and overused, the bacteria they are meant to kill can adapt and develop resistance, making these life ...

Despite the vast body of evidence that shows factory farming to be a bad thing for animals, communities, our health and the planet, the spread of this backwards system of agriculture is showing no ...

Organic production can offer animals higher welfare. In the UK organic pigs are outdoor reared (with access to straw bedded huts or tents and large paddocks). Sows and boars are kept in outdoor ...

Given a natural healthy life, cows can live for twenty years or more. High-yielding dairy cows will typically be slaughtered after three or four lactations because their milk production drops and/or ...

Collection of resources about pigs and how they are farmed. Find out about the life of a sow from birth to slaughter, welfare issues and key statistics. Buy free-range. If you can’t afford that look ...

Compassion in World Farming and OneKind have come together to analyse the standards of the major farm assurance schemes in England and Scotland. The report compares the schemes and what they really ...

Octopuses are complex, intelligent, and sentient animals, very well known for their eight arms and their amazing cognitive abilities. Studies have shown that octopuses learn easily, can solve problems ...