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 ...

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

All of these, including PDFs of the book and the lecturers’ notes, are available on a free DVD-ROM which can be ordered here. These materials focus on issues and solutions for higher welfare farming ...

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 ...

In Spring 2019, Compassion visited two UK pig farms to investigate the use of farrowing crates to confine sows. The film below, narrated by Dragons’ Den entrepreneur, Deborah Meaden, presents the ...

Fish are intelligent, sensitive creatures and like many other animals, they explore, travel, socialise, hunt and play. Some species care for their young and use tools as humans do. Fish are sentient ...

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 ...

Through their influential positions, our fabulous Patrons help us by attending events, speaking at rallies and sharing our important campaign messages. Together we are a force to be reckoned with in ...

On Saturday (29th March), award-winning actress and Compassion Visionary, Miriam Margolyes OBE, joined our Global CEO Philip ...

Back in 1950, chicken was eaten as a treat; British people ate less than a kilo in a whole year. Now, we eat on average 25kg in a year - that's more than 2 kg per month. Broilers (chickens farmed for ...

In a trailblazing move, Waitrose has also simultaneously launched its pioneering animal welfare labelling scheme, making it ...

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 ...