Compassion in World Farming

Does it also not make it easier for the EU to replace our animal rights laws with their more lax ones?

yeah like france will take note

of course animals are sentient????! What planet are some of these people on?

FAB! Love it. Thanks!

Let your friends and family know that they can download it too! Email the link to them to make it really easy for them.

Have a lovely compassionate day!

Hello everybody and thanks for all your comments!

The Prince’s full speech makes compelling reading and underscores the importance of recognising the true cost of industrial agriculture in terms of its environmental and public health impacts.

The Awards have become known as the ‘Oscars’ of the food and farming world and Compassion is immensely proud to have been recognised by the event in 2007 when we received the award for best food campaigner. ... See More

Our campaign for a food system without factory farming has never been more urgent. The serious animal welfare, environmental and public health consequences of keeping too many animals in too small a space are becoming increasingly recognised.

Our messages are getting through and we thank all of you who have supported the campaign actions!

We couldn't do what we do without supporters like you!

Dear Compassion in World Farming friends.

This is a reply to those who have commented on vegetarianism.

Many of our supporters are vegetarian and vegan and the majority of those who work at Compassion in World Farming are vegetarian or vegan. Our Global Warming campaign aimed to encourage consumers to eat less meat for the good of farm animals, themselves and the planet. However, although many of our campaigns do highlight the welfare benefits of vegetarianism and veganism, we are not planning to make a move to becoming a predominantly vegetarian or vegan organisation. ... See More

As you may know, Compassion in World Farming was set up forty years ago by a farmer, Peter Roberts, who was appalled and saddened by the increase in industrial farming methods and wanted to create a brighter future for farm animals across the world. As a result, one of our key aims is to ensure that all meat and daily produce that is available has been produced to the highest standards of farm animal welfare.

At Compassion in World Farming our key goal is to bring about the greatest possible change for farm animals across the world. Widespread attitudinal change is vital for this to occur. Much of the world’s population eats meat and we find that we are able to reach more people and bring about more far-reaching improvements for animals through the use of a pragmatic approach. We fully appreciate the merits and achievements of those organisations that campaign specifically for vegetarianism and/or veganism but feel that duplicating their work would not lead to the most effective outcome.

In this way, in terms of the bigger picture, collected animal welfare organisations are able to reach the widest audience possible and get the best results possible.
These are some of the reasons why we do not actively promote vegetarianism or veganism on a continual basis, although we do encourage the public to eat less meat and dairy. As well as pushing for reform on a political level and seeking farm animal welfare victories within retail, we look to educate the public on farm animal welfare issues and their own personal consumer power so that they are able to make individual, informed and responsible choices.

When suggesting that consumers make a move to choosing free range or organic produce, we often point out that cutting down on meat and dairy consumption, or becoming a vegan or vegetarian, is one of the most effective ways they can make a difference. Our ‘Eat Less Meat’ campaign seeks to go into this in more detail, whilst some of our other campaigns allow us to reach those who had perhaps not previously given a huge amount of thought to farm animal welfare issues. I would like to reiterate that our aim is to work as effectively as possible and to improve the lives of as many animals as possible to as great a degree as possible. All that we do is geared to this aim.

Thank you for all your wonderful support.

Have a lovely compassionate day.

On that we can agree Tamsin. I won't eat meat that I know is from a cruel source, which now I live in Norway is increasingly common. My girlfriend is a vegetarian for welfare reasons, that's her choice, I prefer to use my consumer voice and active campaigning to return us to a time when small portions of meat were a treat and farm animals were as pets.

It was about time when it started.

Thank you for taking the time to send the e-card. We really appreciate all your support with this campaign.

It is great that you are also letting all your friends know about this by posting it as your status, this is a great idea, thank you.

We will continue to keep you all updated about this campaign and the outcome of all your e-cards.

Dear Jane. M,

Thank you for the complimentary comments about the instrumental work that Compassion are doing. When my late father founded the charity, he was very concerned about a subject that no one else was tackling: the cruelty of factory farming. He approached other animal welfare charities, but they were not interested; hence he did it himself.
Thank you also for showing concern over some comments made which "berated" me (previous thread). It is appreciated. However, the more I read of one person's comments, makes me realise that there is a great deal of anger & cynicism. I know that Compassion in World Farming have the same ethos today, as the day it started and I also know what tremendous work they are doing; after all they are the leading international farm animal welfare charity!
Luckily these comments are in a very tiny minority; there are 10's of 1000's of positive, grateful & complimentary ones to every odd negative & pessimistic one.... See More

To the Staff & Volunteers: KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK IN ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING @ COMPASSION & GRATEFUL THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK & LONG HOURS YOU ALL PUT IN.

Thank you to all the supporters too who care about the farm animals and want to support such a worthwhile charity.

Hello Jane. Thank you for your comment.

Unfortunately Celtic Link are still exporting farm animals from Ireland. Our office in Ireland is currently campaigning against this and you can find out more about their campaign at http://www.ciwf.ie/campaigns/campaign_liveanimal.html.

Thank you for letting us know .Phraps we could all sign the irish petition as well seeing that it worked so well at portsmouth !