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

As part of our campaign to End.It and stop factory farming, we have released our new “Muck Map” alongside our friends at Sustain, the alliance for better food & farming, and Friends of the Earth. This ...

As we look back on 2024, this momentous year will be remembered for the outstanding progress we achieved for farmed animals – enabled by your amazing, unwavering and steadfast support. Our progress ...

This Christmas, Compassion in World Farming is urging the British public to make a few tweaks to their festive food to make it more animal and climate friendly. The animal welfare and environmental ...

Chickens farmed for meat are called broiler chickens. Buy free-range. If you can’t afford that, the RSPCA Assured standard gives birds a better quality of life than the Red Tractor scheme.

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

Compassion In World Farming campaigns peacefully to end factory farming and create sustainable food systems that benefit animals, people, and the planet. Why? We believe that everyone has the right to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are the world’s leading farm animal welfare organisation and for over 50 years, we have been tirelessly campaigning to end the horror of factory farming. Our spokespeople are experts on the impacts ...