Tag: Compassion in World Farming

Good Farm Animal Welfare Award Winners Announced by Compassion in World Farming

Stuart Mitchell

The prestigious annual Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards ceremony hosted by Compassion in World Farming should have taken place on 16 June at the Tower of London, but, like so many other events it was a casualty of COVID-19 and was cancelled.   Compassion, however, are still keen to recognise those companies committing to higher welfare production and sourcing, through its awards programme. This year, 34 awards were given across the UK, EU, China and the US, set to benefit the lives of 28 million animals each year.  This takes the…

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Compassion in World Farming calls for entrants to its 2020 Marketing and Innovation Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming is inviting companies from the Food Service and Manufacturing sectors to enter its biennial Marketing and Innovation Awards. The Awards celebrate forward thinking businesses that provide the best examples of work to improve farm animal welfare and to promote higher welfare products. The Best Innovation Award recognises a company that has developed a successful project or innovation that has delivered measurable benefits to the lives of farm animals. The Best Marketing Award recognises a company that has delivered a successful, creative and far reaching consumer marketing…

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Compassion In World Farming Announces 2020 Sustainable Food And Farming Award

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming is inviting entries to its 2020 Sustainable Food and Farming Award established to recognise producers and businesses that are taking steps to produce meat, dairy and eggs in ways that protect, improve and restore wildlife and the environment. Compassion is seeking projects that involve livestock production and that demonstrate a positive impact on one or more of the following: wildlife, wildlife habitats, soil, conservation, forests, climate change, water quality, reducing use of chemicals and pesticides, reducing reliance on imported animal feeds. Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive of Compassion in…

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Compassion Calls for a Ban on Farrowing Crates

Stuart Mitchell

The animal welfare movement is uniting and calling for a total ban on the use of cages for all farm animals across Europe. A coalition of more than 170 NGO’s, led by Compassion in World Farming, has secured well over the 1 million signatures required, for a full review, debate and vote on the issue in the European Parliament, ahead of handing in its petition in September. In the UK, a similar petition from Compassion to generate support for ending the cage age among MPs, which includes a ban on…

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Waitrose retains tier 1 status in BBFAW and named “global leader”

Stuart Mitchell

The seventh annual Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare, backed by Compassion in World Farming and World Animal Protection, has named Waitrose & Partners a “global leader” for farm animal welfare practices. Since 2014, Waitrose & Partners has been one of a small number of businesses that have achieved Tier 1 status for the Business Benchmark for Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), which is an annual survey based on organisational commitments to animal welfare. The supermarket retailer has once again been named as one of the few companies covered by the…

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