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By making a donation today, you could help campaigners keep up the pressure, support investigations exposing cruelty to farm animals, and give local activists a global voice to fight farm animal cruelty head-on.
Leaving a gift in your Will helps you and supporters of Compassion in World Farming achieve our goals of ending factory farming and improving animal welfare. Some of the achievements that we have made together include: banning veal crates in the EU, banning live animal exports from the EU, and requiring eggs sold in the EU to be cage-free.
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Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. It has received celebrity endorsements and been recognized by BBC Radio 4 for its campaigning. It has grown to a global movement with partners and supporters concerned about the welfare of farm animals.[1]
Peter Roberts and Anna Roberts were Hampshire dairy farmers, who founded Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) in 1967. After they realized there was some public support, the Roberts couple had unsuccessfully appealed to contemporary animal welfare groups to campaign against factory farming. Undeterred, the Roberts's began their own campaign. Peter Roberts retired in 1991.[2][3] He was replaced as Chief Executive by Joyce D'Silva, who served until 2005 and now serves as ambassador.[4] Philip Lymbery, co-author of Farmageddon, is the current Chief Executive.[5] CIWF has offices in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, France, Poland, the United States, Brussels and China. Representatives are located in Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, South Africa, and Sweden.[6] CIWF was responsible for the veal crate ban in the UK, as well as bans on narrow stalls and chains on pregnant sows. The European Union recognised animals as sentient beings as a result of their petition.[7] In June 2023, Emma Silverthorn, the granddaughter of Anna and Peter Roberts, published a biography of the Roberts and a history of the charity titled Roaming Wild, the Founding of Compassion in World Farming in 2023 (Whittles).
Compassion in World Farming does not support violence or threats;[8][9] rather, it campaigns peacefully for the humane treatment of farm animals, which members accept will be killed and eaten.[10] The London Evening Standard has called it "the most rational of the groups that campaign about animal welfare and the environment."[11] In addition to advocacy, it produces educational material for school children,[6] and has fought against what it calls industry-sponsored propaganda.[12] To celebrate and promote good animal welfare practices, it presents awards including the Good Egg,[13] Good Chicken,[13] Good Dairy,[14] and Good Pig.[15] Its undercover investigations have revealed animal cruelty to hens,[16] cattle,[17] pigs,[18] and sheep.[19]
CIWF advocates free range systems, but accepts straw-bedded indoor systems for pigs.[15] It has warned about factory farming of dairy cattle, which it says is neither economically beneficial for farmers nor healthy for cows.[20] It has advocated a complete ban on fur farming in Ireland, which it describes as "one of the most serious animal welfare problems facing Ireland today".[21] In 2002, it called for a global moratorium on all experimental or commercial cloning of farm animals.[22] It opposes the practice of live export of farm animals for slaughter, instead advocating that the animals be slaughtered before transport.[23] In support of this position, its supporters have demonstrated in London,[23] Ipswich,[24] Belfast,[25] Ramsgate,[26] and Dover.[27] It has also campaigned to maintain a ban on the live transport of horses.[28] It supports a ban on foie gras, calling this "an example of intensive farming at its worst".[29]
Celebrity supporters have included Joanna Lumley, who spoke against long distance animal transport,[30] and Paul McCartney, who advocated for reduced consumption of meat products.[31] In 2010, Jo Brand, Bill Oddie, Zac Goldsmith, Marc Abraham, and William Roache endorsed CIWF's protest against factory farming of cattle by Nocton Dairies.[32] Early supporters include Spike Milligan and Celia Hammond, who protested against battery cages.[7]
In 2007, CIWF won the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Award for the best food campaigner/educator.[33] In 2009, it won the Broadcast Digital Award for Best Use of Interactive for their Chicken Out! website.[34] In 2011, it won a Third Sector Excellence Award for its annual review[35] and The Observer's Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year.[36]
Compassion in World Farming was founded over 50 years ago by a dairy farmer (Peter Roberts) who became horrified by the ongoing intensification of farming. Today, we campaign to end all factory farming practices. We have over one million supporters, as well as representation in eleven European countries, the US, China and South Africa.
Our current food system exploits animals mercilessly, often keeping them in intensive confinement and treating them merely as commodities. It contributes to about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change (IPCC 2021). It is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss. It threatens our health and the health and livelihoods of farm workers and local residents. That is why we campaign for farming systems that are safer, fairer, and greener.
Compassion in World Farming EU is based in Brussels and campaigns to strengthen legislation and enforcement on farm animal welfare, with a particular focus on Europe. Our advocacy work targets the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and other key players in Brussels.
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Compassion USA was formed in 2011. It is a branch of the international organization Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), which works to improve farmed animal welfare and end all factory farming practices. CIWF has offices across the globe, including in the U.K., Italy, Poland, Brussels and China. This review focuses on their U.S. branch only.
Compassion USA engages in corporate outreach to encourage food companies to implement improved animal welfare policies, especially for farmed chickens. They run a public engagement program to encourage greater consumer awareness of animal welfare issues, and they also offer resources to encourage individuals to reduce their consumption of animal products.
Compassion USA does not have plans for any significant expansions, so their room for more funding is limited. While we do not have concerns about the cost effectiveness of their program to encourage individuals to reduce their consumption of animal products, we are less confident about the cost effectiveness of their corporate outreach and public engagement programs.
Compassion USA focuses on reducing the suffering of farmed animals, which we believe is a high-impact cause area. Their corporate outreach work to improve the welfare of farmed chickens in the U.S. is likely to reduce the suffering of a large number of animals.
We categorize the work of animal advocacy charities by their outcomes, broadly distinguishing whether interventions focus on individual or institutional change. Individual-focused interventions often involve decreasing the consumption of animal products, increasing the prevalence of anti-speciesist values, or providing direct help to animals. Institutional change involves improving animal welfare standards, increasing the availability of animal-free products, or strengthening the animal advocacy movement.
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