Tag: Compassion in World Farming

Compassion in World Farming Launches Salmon Scorecard to Measure Welfare in Aquaculture

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming has launched a new Salmon Welfare Scorecard, reporting the performance of eight major salmon producers against 13 key welfare parameters. Fish are sentient animals capable of feeling pain, stress and fear, as well as experiencing positive emotions, social bonds, and advanced intelligence. They are sensitive creatures and like many other animals, they explore, socialise, hunt and play. Yet many fish are intensively reared on farms where they are forced to live in conditions that fail to meet their basic welfare needs. In recent years, there has…

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Compassion Holds its First Asia Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards Ceremony in Bangkok

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming marked a new first when, on 16 November at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel, it celebrated its inaugural Asia Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards; a chance to recognise food companies from the region that are making strides towards improved animal welfare across their supply chains through their current policies or commitments. And to inspire others to do the same. In total, 19 awards were presented across three countries: Thailand, Japan and China. The majority, (16 awards) focussed on higher welfare eggs and broiler chicken production, and together…

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Actor Zoë Wanamaker Presents New Undercover Investigation Footage of Shocking Cruelty in EU Fish Farms

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming recently called on the EU to introduce legislation to protect the welfare of farmed fish without delay after revealing new footage of shocking and widespread cruelty in EU trout farms. The results of the undercover investigation – which focused on four Polish trout farms – are revealed today in a new video presented by world renowned actor Zoë Wanamaker. The investigation shows appalling images of live fish: being gutted having their eyes gouged out being suffocated and crushed in overcrowded barrels, and even being packed into…

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Bird flu ‘ticking time bomb’ cannot be stopped without major farming reforms, warns new report

Stuart Mitchell

Without major reforms to industrial farming it will not be possible to end the spread of bird flu or reduce the risk of a global human pandemic, warns a compelling new report released in August by Compassion in World Farming. The report – called Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can end it – shows that, contrary to popular belief, wild birds are typically victims of the disease rather than the cause, and it is spiralling out of control due to the rise of factory farming. This view is supported…

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New poll shows quarter of UK public unaware of major health risks associated with high-meat diets as countries report on food system progress

Stuart Mitchell

A new poll released on 24 July has revealed that more than a quarter of people in the UK (26%) are unaware of any of the major health risks associated with high consumption and overproduction of meat products when presented with a list of them. The poll – carried out by YouGov on behalf of Compassion in World Farming in eight countries – shows that just 15% of UK adults know that air pollution from factory farms increases the risk of certain lung cancers and just 22% are aware that…

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