Compassion in World Farming is boosting its efforts to improve the lives of the trillions of fish killed annually for human consumption, by launching phase two of its #RethinkFish campaign, encouraging the five major global fish certification schemes to set minimum standards to protect fish welfare. Fish are sentient beings. They can feel pain, stress, and fear, as well as experience positive emotions, social bonds, and advanced intelligence. Raising awareness of their sentience – not a well-recognised trait in fish – was the focus of Compassion’s original #RethinkFish campaign launched…
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Compassion Pushes for Fish Welfare Improvement
Compassion in World Farming is expanding its work with the food industry to improve the welfare of farmed fish during rearing and slaughter. At a time when the world is facing a crisis of overfishing and with the consumption of fish on the rise, an expansion of fish farming has taken place, which is both unsustainable and, in many areas, inhumane in the way fish are treated. Compassion is focussing its fish work on improving the welfare of five of the most popular farmed species, including Atlantic Salmon, European Sea…
Read MoreCompassion launches second European EggTrack report to show company progress towards cage-free egg production
Compassion in World Farming has launched the second iteration of its European EggTrack report to show the progress companies are making towards meeting their 2025 cage-free egg commitments. In recent years, a wave of cage-free 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 companies are already on board, recognising that caged systems are unsustainable, unwanted by consumers and do not deliver a good enough quality of life for hens.…
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