Strategic Plan 2013-2017
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Photo © CIWF/ANAW WORLDWIDE FARMING FOR KINDER,FAIRER STRATEGIC PLAN STRATEGIC 2013-2017 OUR VISION is a world where farm animals are treated with compassion and respect. INTRODUCTION OUR MISSION Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by Peter Roberts, a dairy farmer who could see is to end factory farming and advance the wellbeing of farm animals worldwide through advocacy, campaigning and engagement. first-hand how the demand for supposed cheap food was having a devastating effect on farm animals and human health. ince its beginnings, Compassion has been making a difference to OUR STRATEGIC CHANGE GOALS the lives of millions of farm animals in the UK and throughout To achieve recognition that ending factory farming is key to humane sustainable S Europe. Against a multicultural, rapidly changing, economically 1. food and farming policy worldwide. challenging backdrop, we have made sure that animal welfare is represented on the political agenda; we have won battles to ensure animal welfare is protected by To drive European legislation to achieve better standards of animal welfare law; we are influencing change in the way animals reared for food are perceived by consumers and 2. through advocacy and campaigning. food suppliers; and we are being joined by leading voices from the environmental, humanitarian and scientific communities to challenge intensive, industrialised farming. To drive better animal welfare standards in the global food supply chain Whilst we still have a great deal to achieve in Europe, we are in a position where we can build on our 3. through food business engagement. experience and achievements and start challenging the world. We have to stop the spread of factory farming, before it is too late. The world’s population now exceeds seven billion; in just five years, the number of farm animals reared for food globally has risen from 60 billion a year to just over 70 billion. What we will do The outcomes we expect Two out of three farm animals are now reared intensively. Increasingly, people are asking how do we feed We will show that ending factory farming is key Recognition that ending factory farming is key to the coming population of nine billion expected by 2050? The answer lies in recognising that we currently to humane sustainable food and farming policy. humane sustainable food and farming policy worldwide. produce enough food for 10-12 billion. Yet, more than half is wasted, not least by feeding perfectly good food to factory farmed animals. Yet one billion people are starving, whilst another one billion are We will strengthen EU legislation and enforcement Better legislation properly enforced throughout overweight. The world is out of balance. Factory farming is at the heart of our problems, not the solution. on farm animal welfare. the EU. This five-year Strategic Plan sets out how Compassion intends to spearhead an urgently needed We will persuade food companies to adopt Higher animal welfare seen as a must-have 21st Century agricultural revolution to end all forms of cruelty associated with ‘modern’ intensive higher welfare products across their entire component of quality food. factory farming and implementing a kinder, safer, fairer model of humane sustainable farming that product ranges. Higher welfare food choices for shoppers and diners works for animals, people and our planet. We will enable consumers to make higher go from being the exception to the norm. welfare food choices. Better informed consumers and livestock products We will convince intergovernmental agencies to labelled according to system of production. support humane sustainable farming policies. A trading environment that facilitates higher welfare We will support producers who champion higher production and rewards progressive farmers. Philip Lymbery, welfare farming practices. International recognition of animals as sentient Chief Executive beings. Compassion in World Farming REVIEW OF STRATEGIC PLAN International action on the damaging impacts of The objectives of the Strategic Plan will factory farming and increased meat and dairy be reviewed annually. A report with o t production globally. o recommendations based on the h p k objectives set out in this Strategic Plan Affordable, higher welfare food as standard for all. c o t s I will be submitted to the Board each year. 1 billion chickens, 125 million laying hens, 25 d n a s million pigs and 1 million dairy cows and calves l e u per year in Europe benefitting from higher welfare m a S policies by 2016/17. y r r a G © s o t 2 o h 3 P Factory farming is the single biggest cause WHY DO WE NEED of animal cruelty, one of the greatest social COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING? and environmental challenges of our time and utterly fails to meet the needs of the We are tackling the biggest issue of animal cruelty on the planet. planet’s seven billion people. Worldwide, about 70 billion farm animals are now produced for food each year; two out of every three being factory farmed. Kept permanently indoors; caged, crammed or confined. Treated like production machines rather than individual sentient beings. oor animal welfare often has serious consequences Yet, factory farms waste food. For every 6kg of for society; factory farming is damaging to the plant protein, such as cereals, fed to livestock, only environment, biodiversity and public health. 1kg of protein on average is given back in the form P 3 of meat or other livestock products . By heightening Every year, an area of forest equivalent to half the UK the competition between people and farm animals is cleared, largely to grow animal feed and for cattle for precious grain, it pushes up global food prices to ranching. the detriment of the poor. Keeping animals intensively in close proximity Globally, the livestock industry contributes 18% of produces a pressure cooker environment for new and human-produced greenhouse gas emissions – more deadly strains of disease such as highly pathogenic than all our planes, trains and cars put together. Avian Influenza. Battery cage egg farms are six times With factory farming as the engine room, livestock more likely to harbour dangerous Salmonella than numbers are set to double by 2050. non-cage farms1. Today, typically intensively produced chicken meat is nearly three times higher in fat than The inescapable truth is that factory farming 40 years ago2. Half the world’s antibiotics are fed to is failing to feed the world; it uses more food farm animals, largely to ward off diseases inevitable than it produces3. It breaks the link between under intensive conditions. livestock and the land and is fundamentally unsustainable. Factory farming is hugely wasteful of precious resources, including water, land and even food. A Compassion in World Farming works internationally kilogram of factory farmed beef takes the equivalent to bring about a brighter future; without industrial of 90 bathtubs of water to produce, much of it drawn animal farming reliant on grain, soya or fishmeal from rivers and aquifers. Growing concentrated feed grown elsewhere. Instead, we favour animals kept crops for farm animals uses 40 times more irrigation on the land, on mixed, rotational farms, permanent water than grass or silage. pastures or in woodlands. We encourage healthy, balanced diets that avoid over-consuming meat; A third of the world’s cereal harvest is fed to eating better quality food from animals kept in industrially-reared animals; enough to feed three higher welfare conditions. Through this route billion people. If these feed crops were planted in a lies a truly humane sustainable food system to single field, it would cover the entire land surface of the benefit of people, the environment and the European Union. animal welfare. k c o t s r e t t u h S © o t o h [1] P L.C. Snow et al., 2010. The Veterinary Record, No 166, pages 579-586. [2] Professor Crawford et al., 2005. Ref. 188, Farmageddon. [3] These impact figures have been calculated against a total EU production of over 5 billion broiler chickens for meat and over 250 million pigs each year. Up to 200 million laying hens in the EU are kept in cages. 4 5 Factory farming accounts for more than 70% of poultry meat, 50% of pork, OUR KEY AREAS 40% of beef4 and 60% of eggs produced worldwide. Key issues of animal OF ANIMAL WELFARE CONCERN welfare concern that we seek to tackle are: BATTERY CAGES CHICKENS REARED PIGS DAIRY CATTLE CALVES TRANSPORT OF FOR LAYING HENS FOR MEAT LIVE ANIMALS Most of the world’s 6.5 billion Each year around 50 billion Over 1.3 billion pigs are There are over 250 million Many calves reared for veal are Each year around six million egg laying hens are confined meat chickens are reared produced worldwide each year. dairy cows worldwide. crammed into barren indoor units farm animals – cattle, in battery cages. worldwide. without any straw. sheep, pigs and horses – are Industrial pig breeding often Modern breeds of dairy cow transported huge distances These cages are so small the hens Up to 50,000 chickens are involves confining sows in stalls often produce so much milk that About six million calves in the across Europe. cannot flap their wings, so barren crammed into each overcrowded or crates where they cannot turn many suffer from serious welfare EU alone are reared annually they have no nest in which to lay shed. In Europe, they are stocked around. Their offspring tend to be problems including lameness for veal, the vast majority of Many of these journeys take over their eggs, and so restricting that at about 17 chickens per reared in barren and overcrowded and mastitis. The pressures on these in barren systems.