Tag: Compassion in World Farming

Welfare groups demand action to end 20 year-old pig welfare crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The UK Government must deliver a promised consultation on pig slaughter methods, in a move which could improve the welfare of millions of pigs and end a 20 year-old welfare crisis.   That is the message from the RSPCA – who handed in a petition of more than 22,000 signatures to Downing Street in July last year, urging the UK Government to phase out high-concentration carbon dioxide (CO₂) gas for stunning and killing pigs in slaughterhouses. The RSPCA is joined by welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming, to demand that the…

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New Report Shows Food Companies Struggle To Match Ambition With Action On Farm Animal Welfare

Stuart Mitchell

The latest Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), released recently, shows strong levels of commitment to higher farm animal welfare standards are in place across the world’s largest food companies, but the pace of implementation remains slow across global supply chains. BBFAW is the world’s leading annual assessment of the food industry’s farm animal welfare policies, practices and performance, assessing 149 global food companies. The programme is supported by partners Compassion in World Farming and FOUR PAWS. The food companies with the highest overall ranking this year (achieving ‘Tier…

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ChickenTrack 2025 Shows Steady Progress on Broiler Welfare—But Calls for Continued Industry Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming has today (12 March) published its latest European ChickenTrack report, evaluating how leading food companies are progressing toward meeting the higher welfare criteria of the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). The BCC is a comprehensive, science-based framework designed to improve the lives of millions of chickens raised for meat each year.  Across Europe, over 410 companies have signed up to the BCC.  ChickenTrack 2025 evaluates the progress of the 107 most influential signatories—with the potential to improve the lives of more than 794 million chickens each year—by…

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Europe has spoken – it’s time to End the Cage Age

Stuart Mitchell

The European Commission’s own consultation reveals overwhelming public support to end the use of cages – NGO calls for legislation without delay More than 190,000 people responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on modernising animal welfare laws last year, and the results show the vast majority of respondents want to phase out cages from animal farming. The key findings include: 99% of respondents, including 54% of businesses, think phasing out cages for laying hens is important or very important 99% of respondents, including 46% of businesses, think phasing out…

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Statement From Compassion in World Farming in Response to Unilever’s Abandonment of their Global Cage-Free Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

It is deeply disappointing to see Unilever – one of the world’s largest food manufacturers – not only abandon the global cage‑free egg commitment it made in 2018 but also withdraw from the higher‑welfare broiler chicken requirements of the Better Chicken Commitment. Cage‑Free Egg CommitmentAfter reaching 68% global cage‑free implementation, this reversal leaves hens confined in cages, unable to express even their most basic natural behaviours. Unilever’s pledge was global in scope – not limited to Europe and North America, where it has since gone 100% cage‑free. Consumers around the…

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