Animal welfare - Wicked Leeks

Food, Farming, Fairness.

News

The mucky business of intensive farming

The corporates behind intensive poultry and pig farms are profiting from pollution

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming

Features

Know your chickens: what the standards really stand for

Animal welfare Farming

News

Intensive farming, superbugs + antimicrobial resistance

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming Health

Features

1.1 billion chickens: profit, poo and the pollution of our rivers

The inconvenient truth about the nation’s favourite meat

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Ethical business

News

Rich countries should eat less meat

Wealthy countries including the UK and US are among the top over-consumers of meat and other animal products and have most work to do in transforming their national diets.

Opinion

Jungle fowl and the joy of hens

I am glad that, away from the factory farm, there are many absolutely stunning and real breeds that we can keep in garden and smallholding settings, writes Arthur Parkinson in an excerpt from his new book.

News

Animal welfare win in funding for small abattoirs

Less intensive farming systems rearing slow-grown or heritage breed animals should benefit from new funding to help reverse the closures of small abattoirs.