Results
Farm Animal Welfare in Colombia - a country situation report
Size: 2336kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A review of the Colombian farm animal industry assessing its economic, technical and animal welfare indicators.
Date: 2007
Transporte Desnecessário. O sofrimento dos animais em rotas de longas distâncias.
Size: 1.35Mb
Author: Handle With Care Coalition
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este relatório de 40 páginas é o resumo do livro “Bem Estar Animal Durante Transporte de Longa Distância” e cobre os principais problemas que afectam o bem estar de animais transportados por longa distância para o matadouro.
Also available in: Arabic, English, Italian, Spanish
Date: 2008
Cheap Food - Who Pays the Price?
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A 7 point action plan to introduce farming methods which are healthier and more humane.
Date: 2001
Understanding the World Trade Organisation
Size: 144Kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of the three trade pillars of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture from an animal welfare perspective.
Date: 2004
Asuntos de bienestar en animales de granja
Size: 489kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Una descripción de los asuntos de bienestar de animales de granja, incluyendo cría intensiva, criaderos para producir pieles, transporte, sacrificio y comercio.
Also available in: English, Portuguese
Date: 2006
The Scientific Case Against Sow Gestation Crates and the Tethering of Sows
Size: 14kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns associated with the use of gestation crates and the tethering of sows.
Date: 2001
Animal Welfare During Land Transportation: a brief guide
Size: 3.61Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report outlining the World Organisation for Animal Health's (OIE's) international guidelines on land transportation of animals.
Date: 2006
Practical Alternatives to Industrial Animal Farming in Latin America
Size: 479kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: This report looks at humane alternative systems to intensive farming in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica, with a focus on alternative production systems for pig meat, egg production and chickens for meat.
Also available in: Portuguese
Date: 2007
The Facts About Our Food - Intensive Cattle and Dairy Farming
Size: 448kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive cattle and dairy farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese
Date: 2007
Le bien-etre des poulets de chair dans l’union europeenne
Size: 611kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the health and welfare issues caused by broiler breeding in French.
Date: 2003
Animal Welfare Problems in long distance transports
Size: 1.59MB
Author: Animals’ Angels
Resource type: PDF
Description: The report lists and explains the welfare problems, which cannot to be adequately resolved by legislation, as they are inherent in the long-distance transport of animals. The intention of this report is to provide the European Commission with details in favour of the reduction of transport times with regard to the forthcoming revision of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport.
Also available in: English
Date: 2008
Live Exports: Cruel and Archaic Trade
Size: 1.2Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Colour illustrated booklet with maps, detailing different routes of live animal transport for slaughter in Europe of horses and donkeys, sheep (including slaughter conditions), pigs and calves . For updated version with current facts and figures see 2003 publication.
Date: 2000
Alternatives to the Barren Battery Cage for the Housing of Laying Hens in the EU
Size: 1.4Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report on the scientific evidence to assess the ability of ‘enriched’ cages and non-cage systems to meet the welfare requirements of laying hens.
Date: 2007
Bovine Somatotropin BST: A distressing product
Size: 43kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An analysis of the health and welfare problems of dairy cows injected with BST
Date: 1998
Animals and people first
Size: 509kb
Author: WSPA, RSPCA, Eurogroup
Resource type: PDF
Description: Why good animal welfare is important for feeding people, for trade and for the future.
Also available in: Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2005
Welfare of Europe's Sows in Close Confinement Stalls
Size: 1.2Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Produced in run-up to EU Directive (2001) banning sow stalls from 2013. Includes scientific evidence of health and welfare problems caused by sow stalls.
Date: 2000
Vets versus Protection of Animals 2007-04
Size: 1.53MB
Author: Animals’ Angels
Resource type: PDF
Description: Whilst there are state veterinarians throughout Europe who do their very best to protect the animals on transport by enforcing the law, unfortunately there are still many others who do not.
Also available in: English
Date: 2007
ข้อเท็จจริงเกี่ยวกับอาหารที่เรารับประทาน: การทำฟาร์มแบบอุตสาหกรรม
Size: 1060kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese, English, Vietnamese
Date: 2007
Organisation Mondiale du Commerce: Un Serieux Danger Pour la Protection des Animaux
Size: 1.2Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Colour illustrated overview, giving details on relevant cases where WTO has impeded animal protection, e.g. leg-hold traps, dolphins, turtles, cat and dog fur, beef hormones, plus problems of battery cages and broiler chickens, and threat to human and animal welfare from global spread of factory farming, in French.
Date: 2002
An Overview of Farm Animal Welfare Issues
Size: 515kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of farming welfare issues, including intensive farming, fur farming, transport, slaughter and markets.
Also available in: Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2006
The Welfare of Meat Chickens in the European Union
Size: 600kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the health and welfare issues caused by broiler breeding for fast growth, high stocking densities, lameness, heart disease, catching, transport and slaughter, plus broiler breeders. The report discusses alternatives and reforms needed.
Date: 2005
World Trade Organisation - The Greatest Threat Facing Animal Protection Today
Size: 929kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Colour report, giving details on relevant cases where WTO has impeded animal protection, e.g. leg-hold traps, dolphins, turtles, cat and dog fur, beef hormones, plus problems of battery cages and broiler chickens, and threat to human and animal welfare from global spread of factory farming.
Date: 2002
Beyond Cruelty. Beyond Reason. Long distance transport and welfare of farm animals.
Size: 1.34Mb
Author: Handle With Care Coalition
Resource type: PDF
Description: This 40 page report is a comprehensive summary of the book Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals, addressing all the major welfare issues related to transporting sentient animals long distances for slaughter.
Also available in: Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Date: 2008
Sustainable Agriculture Report 2008
Size: 975kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report discussing the criteria necessary for global agriculture to be sustainable
Date: 2008
Factory Farming and Human Health
Size: 129kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report which explains infections from animals causing food poisoning; antibiotics; hormone growth promoters and the regulation of food safety.
Date: 1997
The Detrimental Impacts of Industrial Animal Agriculture
Size: 621kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Report showing how the spread of factory farming to developing countries disrupts traditional farming and social systems, causes environmental and human diet-related health problems, and has a negative effect on food security
Date: 2002
Farm Animal Genetic Engineering and Cloning
Size: 25kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A summary of the issues raised in the report The Gene and the Stable Door: Biotechnology and Farm Animals.
Date: 2002
Way Forward for Europe's Egg Industry: Keeping the 2012 Ban
Size: 1.7Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Battery cages are due to be banned in the EU from 2012 but increasing industry pressure may result in a delay of up to 10 years. This illustrated report details the reasons why this is unacceptable.
Date: 2006
Guiding Principles to Humane and Sustainable Farming
Size: 145kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A report outlining the impact of industrialised farming and the animal welfare concerns of intensive farming systems.
Date: 2005
La Producción Pecuaria Intensiva - Parte del problema de la pobreza
Size: 2MB
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este informe discute los impactos de la industria animal y sus impactos en la pobreza y el hambre en países en desarrollo devastando los sustentos de granjeros locales.....
Also available in: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese
Date: 2007
The Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese
Size: 10kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns associated with the production of foie gras.
Date: 2000
إنها عملية وحشية وغير ضرورية – رعاية الحيوانات أثناء النقل لمسافات بعيدة
Size: 2.76Mb
Author: Handle With Care Coalition
Resource type: PDF
Description: This 40 page report is a comprehensive summary of the book Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals, addressing all the major welfare issues related to transporting sentient animals long distances for slaughter.
Also available in: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2008
Cría Intensiva de Animales de Granja - La Próxima Crisis Mundial de Salud?
Size: 369kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Un resumen del informe que revisa varios asuntos importantes de la salud que surge del aumento creciente de la agricultura animal industrial.
Also available in: English, Portuguese
Date: 2004
Những sự kiện liên quan đến thực phẩm chúng ta ăn:
Size: 1112kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese, English, Thai
Date: 2007
Industrial Animal Agriculture - Part of the Poverty Problem English
Size: 4MB
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: This report discusses how industrial animal agriculture impacts on poverty and hunger in developing countries by devastating the livelihoods of local farmers........
Also available in: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2007
Educating Humane Citizens
Size: 250kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A review of how farm animal welfare is covered in the UK National Curriculum for schools (to age 16) and in A level biology, with recommendations for improvements that ensure farm animal sentience and welfare is included in all relevant courses.
Date: 2003
Alternativas Práticas à Pecuária Industrial na América Latina
Size: 306kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este relatório concentra-se num sistema alternativo mais humano para uma agricultura intensiva na Argentina, Brasil, Colômbia e Costa Rica, focando sistemas de produção alternativas à carne de porco, produção de ovos e galinhas para consumo.
Also available in: English
Date: 2007
European Union Law on the Welfare of Farm Animals
Size: 534kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: European Union law contains a range of helpful provisions designed to protect farm animals on-farm, during transport and at slaughter. This report describes and evaluates the legislation, indicates the scientific research on which it is based, and outlines the principal reforms that are still needed.
Date: 2002
我们的食品的事实：集约化家禽饲养
Size: 836kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive poultry farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: English
Date: 2007
Animal Organs in Humans: Uncalculated Risks and Unanswered Questions
Size: 227kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming / British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
Description: A report which reviews scientific and medical literature and describes how xenotransplants are unlikely to work in humans, and their potential for causing disease.
Date: 1998
The Facts About Our Food - Farm Transport
Size: 222kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of farm transport systems, their impact on animal welfare, and current humane alternatives.
Date: 2005
For Their Own Good: a Study of Farm Animal Mutilations
Size: 69kb
Description: Details the methods used and the pain and other welfare problems caused by tail-docking, castration and teeth-clipping of pigs, de-beaking of hens and turkeys, toe-cutting of turkeys, tail-docking and castration of lambs, and castration, de-horning/disbudding of cattle and calves.
Date: 1994
Os Animais e as Pessoas em Primeiro Lugar
Size: 126kb
Author: WSPA, RSPCA, Eurogroup
Resource type: PDF
Description: Por que o bem-estar dos animais é importante para a alimentação das pessoas, para o comércio e para o futuro.
Also available in: Chinese, English, Spanish
Date: 2005
Supermarkets and Farm Animal Welfare 2007: Raising the Standard
Size: 3.4Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Results of Compassion in World Farming’s survey of the animal welfare standards of the major UK supermarkets.
Date: 2003
O transporte de animais de produção no Brasil
Size: 1.98Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Um relatório sobre o transporte de longa distância de animais no Brasil.
Date: 2008
산업축산 - 세계 빈곤 문제에 미치는 영향
Size: 1.65Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: This report discusses how industrial animal agriculture impacts on poverty and hunger in developing countries by devastating the livelihoods of local farmers....
Also available in: Chinese, English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2007
Stop, Look, Listen - Recognising the Sentience of Farm Animals
Size: 1.3Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report giving examples from scientific literature on farm animal pain, fear, frustration and other emotions, natural behaviour, communication and social life; details on how farming practices fail to respect the sentience of pigs, chickens, cattle and sheep, for example by mutilations, early weaning, confinement or crowding.
Date: 2003
Industrial Animal Agriculture - The Next Global Health Crisis Taiwanese
Size: 646kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A 50 page report reviewing a number of important health issues arising from the ever-increasing scale of industrial animal agriculture.
Also available in: English, Taiwanese
Date: 2005
Reduzir O Consumo de Carne
Size: 142kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Um sumário de quatro páginas do relatório sobre os Benefícios Globais de Comer Menos Carne
Also available in: English
Date: 2004
Closed Waters - The Welfare of Farmed Fish
Size: 1.38Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Resource type: PDF
Description: Report on the welfare of farmed Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, Atlantic cod and Atlantic Halibut.
Date: 2007
Long Distance Animal Transport in Europe
Size: 1.3Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Each year, around six million farm animals are transported huge distances across Europe, some for slaughter others for further fattening. This report outlines the welfare concerns of these journeys which can involve extensive suffering, and makes recommendations for improvement.
Date: 2008
Uma Visão Geral das Questões de Bem-estar dos Animais de Produção
Size: 297Kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Uma visão geral das questões de bem-estar dos animais de produção, incluindo criação intensiva, fazendas de peles, transporte, abate e mercados.
Also available in: English, Spanish
Date: 2006
The World Trade Organisation Rules - A Legal Analysis of their Adverse Impact on Animal Welfare
Size: 113kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Updated version of 'The World Trade Organisation Rules: A Legal Analysis of Their Adverse Impact On Animal Welfare' (2001)
Date: 2002
Gripe Aviária
Size: 114kb
Resource type: PDF
Description: Um guia para as questões envolvidas no surto atual de gripe aviária e algumas sugestões sobre o que pode ser feito.
Also available in: English, Spanish
Date: 2008
Case Against the Veal Crate
Size: 24kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An examination of the scientific evidence that led to the banning of the veal crate system in the EU and of the alternative group housed systems that are better for calves, farmers and consumers.
Date: 1999
Modern Breeding Technologies and the Welfare of Farm Animals
Size: 69kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Describes the health and welfare problems caused by selective breeding of cattle, chickens, turkeys and pigs, and reproductive methods such as artificial insemination (AI), superovulation and embryo transfer (ET).
Date: 1995
The Subsidised Trade in Live Cattle from the European Union to the Middle East
Size: 619kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Report on the subsidies funding the trade in live cattle from the EU and welfare issues during transport, handling and slaughter in the Middle East. The payment of these subsidies ended in December 2005 following a Compassion in World Farming campaign.
Date: 2005
Lameness and Leg Weakness in Broilers
Size: 24kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the latest research into lameness and leg weaknesses in chickens grown for meat.
Date: 2000
Forced Feeding - an inquiry into the welfare of ducks and geese kept for the production of foie gras
Size: 1.3Mb
Author: WSPA/ Advocates for Animals
Resource type: PDF
Description: A report outlining the practice and welfare implications of the use of forced feeding of ducks and geese for foie gras production and recommending that all governments end forced feeding.
Date: 2000
UK Calf Transport and Veal Rearing
Size: 4Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Review of the trade in calves from the UK to the EU for veal rearing and the impact of transport and legislative standards for calf rearing in the UK and EU on the welfare of calves.
Date: 2007
Factory Farming and the Environment
Size: 278kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report which describes how concentrating large numbers of animals in factory farms is a major contribution to global environmental degradation.
Date: 1999
Global Warning: Climate Change and Farm Animal Welfare
Size: 297kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Referenced report presenting the scientific evidence showing the impact of high-income countries' unsustainable over-production and over-consumption of animal products on the environment, on the welfare of farm animals, and on human health.
Date: 2007
Stop, Look, Listen - Recognising the Sentience of Farm Animals Summary Report
Size: 244kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A summary of the full report giving examples from scientific literature on farm animal pain, fear, frustration and other emotions, natural behaviour, communication and social life.
Date: 2003
Organización Mundial del Comercio: La Mayor Amenaza Actual Para La Protección de los animales
Size: 743kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Informe en color que da detalles de casos relevantes en que la OMC ha impedido la protección animal como sucede, por ejemplo, con trampas, delfines, tortugas, pieles de gato y perro o hormonas de vaca, además de los problemas de las jaulas de batería y los pollos para asar, así como la amenaza al bienestar humano y animal resultado de la expansión por todo el mundo de la agricultura industrializada.
Date: 2002
Brittle Bones: Osteoporosis and the Battery Cage
Size: 88kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report which uses results from published scientific studies to show that confinement in battery cages prevents hens from exercising their limbs and is the main cause of hens
Date: 1999
我们的食品的事实：集约化畜牧业
Size: 1229kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: English, Thai
Date: 2007
A Livestock Market in Portugal
Size: 1.54Mb
Author: Animals' Angels
Resource type: PDF
Description: Monitoring the market of San Pedro de Rates, Portugal 2005 – 2006.
Date: 2006
Produção Animal Industrial – A Próxima Crise Global de Saúde?
Size: 358kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Um resumo do relatório que aborda assuntos importantes relacionados com a saúde animal resultantes do aumento da produção animal industrial.
Also available in: English, Spanish
Date: 2004
Welfare of Turkeys at Slaughter
Size: 22kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns of turkeys at slaughter including shackling, pre-stun shocks and inadequate stunning and neck-cutting.
Date: 1997
我们的食品的事实：集约化饲养猪
Size: 982kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive pig farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: English
Date: 2007
Factory Farming of Ducks
Size: 14kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns associated with factory farming of ducks including the lack of water, rapid growth and de-beaking.
Date: 2001
The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat
Size: 471kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Comprehensive referenced report on the unsustainability of our increasing meat consumption and current intensive animal farming methods for human health and the economy, the environment and farmed animals.
Also available in: Spanish
Date: 2004
Beyond the Battery: A Welfare Charter for Laying Hens
Size: 95kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A detailed study of the welfare implications of housing hens in battery cages, and their behavioural needs, based on review of scientific literature.
Date: 1997
Compilation Report on Unweaned Animals 2008
Size: 1.02MB
Author: Animals’ Angels
Resource type: PDF
Description: This Review Report offers an up-to-date insight into the occurring problems on long distance transports of unweaned animals. The evidence offered and the requests proposed in this report, base on newly gained data of five investigations in 2008 and are backed up by the results of previous investigations in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Also available in: English
Date: 2008
The Facts About Our Food - Intensive Farming
Size: 414kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese
Date: 2007
Pig Welfare: towards shared priorities for the future
Size: 668kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report outlining the importance of animal welfare groups working with farmers to improve welfare.
Date: 2008
Laid Bare: the case against enriched cages
Size: 278kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report produced in response to promotion of ‘enriched cages’ by the EU egg industry; showing how they fail to overcome disadvantages of battery cages, since the hens still have inadequate space for natural behaviour.
Date: 2002
Guide to Compassionate Food Shopping
Size: 2.4Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Handy pocket-sized booklet for reference when shopping.
Date: 2007
我们的食品的事实：集约化肉牛和奶牛畜牧
Size: 913kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive cattle and dairy farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: English
Date: 2007
Reducing Meat Consumption - The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat Summary Report
Size: 179kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A four page summary of the Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat report.
Date: 2004
Practical Alternatives to Sow Stalls for Breeding Pigs in Europe
Size: 263kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Case studies of good alternative systems for sows in the France, Netherlands and UK, including group size, stocking density, feeder system, floor type, making the case that humane group systems for sows are economic and workable.
Date: 2001
Global Warning Summary Report: Climate Change and Farm Animal Welfare
Size: 277kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A summary of the report which presents scientific evidence showing the impact of high-income countries' unsustainable over-production and over-consumption of animal products on the environment, on the welfare of farm animals, and on human health.
Date: 2008
Cruel e innecesario. Bienestar animal durante el transporte de larga distancia
Size: 2.55
Author: Handle With Care Coalition
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este informe de 40 páginas es un resumen completo del libro del Transporte y el Bienestar de larga Distancia de Animales de Granja, el cual se refiere a todos los asuntos primordiales del bienestar relacionado con el transporte de animales sobre distancias largas destinados al matadero.
Also available in: Arabic, English, Italian, Portuguese
Date: 2008
工業的畜産 貧困問題の一要素
Size: 288kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: This report discusses how industrial animal agriculture impacts on poverty and hunger in developing countries by devastating the livelihoods of local farmers....
Also available in: Chinese, English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2007
Avian Influenza
Size: 99kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A guide to the issues surrounding the current outbreak of avian influenza, and some advice on what can be done.
Also available in: Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2008
Los Beneficios Globales de Ingerir Menos Carne
Size: 468kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Un informe exhaustivo con referencias que trata de la insostenibilidad para la salud humana, la economía, el entorno y el ganado de nuestro creciente consumo de carne y de nuestros métodos de cría de ganado.
Also available in: English
Date: 2004
Los Animales y las Personas Primero
Size: 64kb
Author: WSPA, RSPCA, Eurogroup
Resource type: PDF
Description: Por qué el bienestar animal es importante para alimentar a la gente, para el comercio y para el futuro.
Also available in: Chinese, English, Portuguese
Date: 2005
The Economics of Factory Farming
Size: 36kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A paper outlining that the replacement of industrial agriculture for sustainable, safe and humane agriculture will not cost the large amount that has been argued. Changing to higher welfare systems often adds relatively little to on-farm production costs, and in some cases improving welfare sometimes reduces costs and increases productivity.
Date: 2002
Animal Welfare Problems in UK Slaughter Houses
Size: 79kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Uses scientific literature to highlight problems such as inadequate stunning of pigs, sheep, calves and poultry, which causes animal suffering. Provides recommendations on humane slaughter techniques.
Date: 2001
Industrial Animal Agriculture
Size: 184kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A report summarising the main welfare problems of laying hens, broiler chickens, pigs and dairy cows in intensive farming systems, including problems of live transport, slaughter, environment and human welfare.
Date: 2003
Industrial Animal Agriculture - The Next Global Health Crisis Summary Report
Size: 380kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A summary of the report which reviews a number of important health issues arising from the ever-increasing scale of industrial animal agriculture.
Also available in: Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2004
Ethics and Animal Farming
Author: Compassion in World Farming / University of Nottingham
Description: Web-based interactive exercise using the Ethical Matrix.
Date: 2003
Welfare of Pigs, Cattle and Sheep at Slaughter
Size: 46kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns of pigs, cattle and sheep at slaughter.
Date: 1993
Intensive Poultry Production Industry and the Spread of Avian Influenza
Size: 158kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: A 16 page report which unveils evidence showing that the development of highly pathogenic strains of bird flu lies at the door of factory farming.
Date: 2007
Chicken - How come it's so cheap?
Size: 256kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the broiler (meat) chicken industry and suffering of the birds from breeder birds to hatchery, to the growing sheds, to catching, transport and slaughter; includes health effects of selective breeding for fast growth, and antibiotic use. Alternatives and reforms required are outlined.
Date: 2002
工业化畜牧业——贫困问题的一部分
Size: 1.55Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: This report discusses how industrial animal agriculture impacts on poverty and hunger in developing countries by devastating the livelihoods of local farmers........
Also available in: English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2007
The Gene and the Stable Door | Biotechnology and Farm Animals
Size: 2.3 Mb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Report explaining the methods of reproductive techniques, selective breeding, genetic engineering and cloning used on farm animals and the aims of the biotechnology companies to produce GM or cloned food, pharmaceuticals and xenotransplantation.
Date: 2002
Pecuária Industrial - Parte do problema da pobreza
Size: 1.44Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este relatório argumenta como a produção animal industrial resulta em elevados niveis de pobreza em paises em vias de desenvolvimento devastando o modo de vida dos agricultures locais........
Also available in: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Date: 2007
Factory Farming and Developing Countries
Size: 50Kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the negative impact of intensive farming on developing countries including issues of human health, environment and economics.
Date: 2000
Tail-Docking of Piglets
Size: 30kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Describes how tail-biting can be prevented by management improvements.
Date: 1999
World Trade Organisation: Some Possible Ways of Providing a Better Balance Between Trade Liberalisation and Animal Protection
Size: 16kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: This briefing looks at two areas in which the World Trade Organisation rules could shift to be most helpful in reducing animal protection problems.
Date: 2003
Principal Concerns About Industrial Farming Systems and Animal Welfare
Size: 50kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: This paper sets out the scientific research and the principles which CIWF believe are important in considering farm animal welfare.
Date: 2002
The Detrimental Impacts of Industrial Animal Agriculture Summary Report
Size: 417kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Summary of the full report which details how industrial animal agriculture impacts on the environment, health and food security.
Date: 2002
Crudele e inutile. Il benessere degli animali durante il transporto su lunga distanza.
Size: 5.82Mb
Author: Handle With Care Coalition
Resource type: PDF
Description: This 40 page report is a comprehensive summary of the book Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals, addressing all the major welfare issues related to transporting sentient animals long distances for slaughter, in Italian.
Also available in: Arabic, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2008
Industrial Animal Agriculture - The Next Global Health Crisis
Size: 4.84Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A 50 page report reviewing a number of important health issues arising from the ever-increasing scale of industrial animal agriculture.
Also available in: Taiwanese
Date: 2005
The Facts About Our Food - Intensive Poultry Farming
Size: 456kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive poultry farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese
Date: 2007
The Facts About Our Food - Intensive Pig Farming
Size: 476kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: An overview of intensive pig farming systems worldwide, their impact on animal welfare, how they can affect human health and the environment, and current humane alternatives.
Also available in: Chinese
Date: 2007
Los efectos devastadores de la producción industrial de animales de granja
Size: 354kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Un resumen del informe completo que detalla el impacto de la agricultura industrial animal sobre la seguridad del entorno, la salud y la comida.
Also available in: English, Francais
Date: 2002
动物与人类之和谐相处
Size: 349kb
Author: WSPA, RSPCA, Eurogroup
Resource type: PDF
Description: Why good animal welfare is important for feeding people, for trade and for the future, in Chinese.
Also available in: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Date: 2005
Welfare of Meat Chickens at Slaughter
Size: 24kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: An overview of the welfare concerns of broiler chickens at slaughter.
Date: 1993
Gripe Aviaria
Size: 51kb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: Este documento tiene como función ser una guía para aquellos temas relacionados con el brote de gripe aviaria actual y proveer un poco de asesoría acerca de lo que podría ser llevado a cabo.
Also available in: English, Portuguese
Date: 2008
Les effets néfastes de l’élevage industriel
Size: 344kb
Author: Compassion in World Farming
Description: Summary of the full report which details how industrial animal agriculture impacts on the environment, health and food security, in French.
Also available in: English, Spanish
Date: 2002
Eating our Future - The environmental impact of industrial animal agriculture
Size: 1.05Mb
Author: WSPA
Resource type: PDF
Description: A report outlining how current trends in animal production are literally unsustainable.
Date: 2008
Compilation Report on Dairy Cows 2007-2008
Size: 1.59MB
Author: Animals’ Angels
Resource type: PDF
Description: This Review Report offers an insight into the condition of animals who spend their entire lives giving birth and producing milk on a piece work basis. The evidence offered and the requests proposed in this report, are based on newly gained data from 2008 and are backed up by the results of previous investigations in 2007.
Also available in: English
Date: 2009