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News Section Icon Published 2/22/2024

Dr Amir Khan, Henry Dimbleby and other thought leaders join Compassion at Oxford Literary Festival

Farming & food systems, faith & animal welfare, and the politics of food among issues to be explored at annual Festival for writers and readers

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News Section Icon Published 2/8/2024

A shocking number of fishes are caught from the wild and fed to farmed animals rather than people

A groundbreaking study published today reveals the vast number of wild-caught fish used for fishmeal & oil, mainly fed to farmed animals, not people

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News Section Icon Published 1/30/2024

Vets urged to help ban live exports to non-EU countries

NGOs join forces to call on veterinary organisations to highlight welfare threat to farmed animals when exported from the EU

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News Section Icon Published 1/24/2024

Compassion demands legislators ban cages to underpin industry progress outlined in EggTrack 2023

Compassion in World Farming is calling on legislators to ban caged animal farming to underpin the voluntary progress made by businesses towards cage-free production reflected in its latest Eggtrack report

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News Section Icon Published 12/7/2023

EU live transport proposal not enough to end animal suffering, say animal welfare campaigners

The European Commission’s proposal to reform rules for the transport of live animals is simply not enough to end the suffering of the millions of live EU animals transported on long journeys.

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News Section Icon Published 12/4/2023

COP28 Declaration on health and climate welcomed

On the first ever Health Day at COP, the COP28 Presidency announced the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health’

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News Section Icon Published 11/28/2023

True horror of EU live animal transport masked in official records 

Shocking new report reveals suffering endured by around 44 million farmed animals a year – including unweaned calves and lambs – on horrific journeys lasting up to three weeks

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News Section Icon Published 11/16/2023

Webinar to explore role of faiths in securing our global food system

Join experts including Dr Vandana Shiva, Dr Marium Husain and Professor David Clough for ‘Faith action for better human, animal and planetary health’

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News Section Icon Published 10/27/2023

Actor Zoë Wanamaker Unveils Shocking EU Fish Farm Cruelty

New footage reveals horrific cruelty including live fish being packed into plastic bags and having their eyes gouged out in EU trout farms

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News Section Icon Published 10/19/2023

Citizens Committee weighs up legal options to deliver EU cages ban

A huge majority of Europeans supports a ban on individual cages for farmed animals, a new poll has revealed today

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