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News Section Icon Published 14/05/2021

Fish welfare included for the first time in EU guidelines for underwater farms

This week, the European Commission published its new guidelines on fish and seafood farms, which set out standard priorities and targets to ensure the sector is run and developed sustainably.

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News Section Icon Published 29/03/2021

Veterinary students support an end to caging farmed animals

Compassion in World Farming warmly welcomes the support of the International Veterinary Students’ Association for the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘End the Cage Age’.

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News Section Icon Published 17/03/2021

Food businesses call for EU phaseout of caging animals in farms

Food companies - including Ferrero, Nestlé and Inter IKEA Group - called today on the European Union to phase out the use of cages in animal farming, starting with egg-laying hens.

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News Section Icon Published 10/03/2021

EU Parliament set to develop a position on fish welfare

On 3 March 2021, Portuguese Member of the European Parliament Francisco Guerreiro (Greens/EFA) presented a proposal for the European Parliament to take a position on fish welfare in aquaculture through a so-called own-initiative report.

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News Section Icon Published 08/03/2021

EU intervenes in crisis of cattle stranded at sea for over two months

The EU has intervened to put diplomatic pressure to reduce the suffering of animals, who have been stranded at sea for over two and a half months.

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News Section Icon Published 04/01/2021

Why World’s First Approval For Cultured Meat Is Good For Us All

In early December, San Francisco-based Food tech company, Eat Just, Inc., announced that it had been given the go-ahead to sell its cultured chicken in Singapore, writes Philip Lymbery.

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