Shopping for animal welfare: WSPA USA offers a helping hand
To help consumers find and make more humane food choices at the supermarket, WSPA USA has released a survey ranking 23 US grocery store chains by the availability of humanely labelled food on their shelves.
New ‘one stop-shop’ for farm animal welfare
The Gateway to Farm Animal Welfare provides reliable information for individuals and organisations that need advice about legislation and research findings, and animal welfare standards, practices and policies.
Going the distance for transported animals
Over the last two years, the Handle with Care coalition campaign – led by WSPA – has successfully worked towards an end to the long distance transport of live animals.
Swine flu: WSPA disputes need for pig cull
Egypt is still culling pigs despite there being no known link between the recent outbreak of swine flu and pigs.
Four of the foulest journeys on earth
The WSPA-led Handle With Care coalition is launching a global campaign today to end the cruel and unnecessary long distance transport of live animals.
Report calls for action on hidden costs of inhumane farming
WSPA’s new report, Eating our Future: the environmental impact of industrial animal agriculture, details how factory farming contributes to the environmental, economic and social crises faced by both developed and developing countries.
WSPA urges G8 leaders to start serving humane and sustainable farming
As outlined in our recent report – Industrial Animal Agriculture – Part of the poverty problem – industrial agriculture is not only responsible for the suffering of billions of animals around the world, is also a key part of the poverty problem.
Animal welfare accepted in halal guidelines
WSPA was also the only animal welfare organisation to be selected as a panel member for the sessions on animal welfare, poultry slaughter and bovine (cow) and ovine (sheep) slaughter.
UN holds landmark first meeting on animal welfare
An alliance of leading animal welfare organisations, including WSPA, attended the landmark event to call for more thorough UN consideration of animal welfare.
London joins global protest against Australia's cruel sheep exports
Yesterday WSPA campaigners staged a mock murder crime scene outside the Australian High Commission in London, drawing attention to the suffering of approximately four million sheep every year as they are transported in filthy and stressful conditions from Australia to the Middle East, just to be slaughtered.
Nicaraguan festival hosts animal welfare milestone
The UDAW campaign fits naturally into the Earth Festival – good animal welfare practices have positive impacts on the environment, which is damaged by animal abuses such as factory farming and the destruction of ecosystems.
Situation critical for Gaza's animals
The vets’ findings mirrored the anticipated acute animal first aid needs, with conflict-related injuries and wounds and lack of food and water causing the greatest and most immediate suffering.
First animal residents for Model Farm Project
An 80-strong herd of cattle have become the first livestock to populate the Brazilian Model Farm, enabling the project – which seeks to demonstrate humane and sustainable farming methods – to launch its first training programme.
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