Our wonderful patron, Dame Joanna Lumley, spoke to an audience with our Global CEO, Philip Lymbery, last Friday (31st January ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our short film highlights the key moments from our three-year journey behind the closed doors of the factory farm industry. For decades, our farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...