For a kinder, more planet-friendly festive season, following our simple tips: ...

Alongside our friends at Sustain, the alliance for better food & farming, and Friends of the Earth, we have released our new “Muck Map” showing where the most animal manure is produced by factory ...

“It’s clear that the public and industry are in support of a ban on the use of cages for egg-laying hens, but the Government ...

The 2024 United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, known as COP29, has drawn to a close, after ten days of negotiations, events and discussions to tackle the global climate crisis.

Caged farming affects billions of animals worldwide. These animals, including pigs, hens, rabbits, ducks, geese, and quail, spend their lives confined in tiny, cramped cages, unable to perform natural ...

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010 - 2016. During her tenure at the UNFCCC, Ms. Figueres ...

Globally, around 92 billion farm animals are factory farmed every year. These intensive systems put production above all else, creating vast quantities of seemingly cheap meat, milk and eggs. But ...

The latest strain of the avian influenza (also known as bird flu or avian flu) virus has claimed the lives of over half a billion farmed birds globally, since its emergence in… ...

More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs.

Back in 1950, chicken was eaten as a treat; British people ate less than a kilo in a whole year. Now, we eat on average 25kg in a year - that's more than 2 kg per month. Broilers (chickens farmed for ...

Chickens and turkeys are bred to grow so fast their bones, heart and lungs often can’t keep up, causing crippling lameness or heart failure. They don’t get to go outside and big chicken farms can ...