Tag: Compassion in World Farming

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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Compassion Calls on Food Industry to #RethinkFish

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming is turning its focus on fish with the launch of their new #RethinkFish campaign to help improve the welfare of the trillions of fish – both farmed and wild – which are used for human consumption every year. The aim of the campaign is to raise general awareness of the sentience of fish and specifically issues such as overcrowding on intensive fish farms where disease and parasites can thrive, and the inhumane slaughter methods that are widely used. Thanks to programmes like David Attenborough’s Blue Planet,…

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Compassion launches first European EggTrack Report

Stuart Mitchell

Following the success of Compassion in World Farming’s US EggTrack Report last year, the farm animal welfare charity has today launched a new report to show the progress European companies are making towards meeting their 2025 cage-free egg commitments. In recent years, a wave of cage-free egg commitments from leading food businesses around the world has promised to transform the future for laying hens.  Compassion actively campaigns to ban all cages in livestock farming and many of the companies that have made cage-free commitments are recognising that caged systems do…

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Compassion’s Awards Celebrate Continual Drive in Farm Animal Welfare Across the Globe

Stuart Mitchell

The winds of change continue to blow across the world’s most influential food companies as more and more recognise the need to take farm animal welfare seriously.  Over the last couple of years, driven by consumer demand, investor considerations and market forces, commitments on cage-free eggs have spread from the US, to Europe and the UK, crossing all sectors and laying the foundations for the end of the cage age, while progress has also been made on the living conditions of broiler chickens.  Compassion in World Farming celebrated those companies…

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Rabbits released across social media to help #EndTheCageAge

Stuart Mitchell

Last week Compassion in World Farming launched a series of innovative images, GIF’s and memes across social media, to raise awareness of our ongoing campaign to End the Cage Age for rabbits throughout the EU. The digital content was produced exclusively for them by creative influencer Sam Cadman, who is best known for his alternative productions, including cult show Trigger Happy TV. “Compassion are a fantastic organisation working tirelessly to share a message that all of us can sympathise with,” said Sam “Social media is a powerful way to reach…

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