The Rise of Factory Farming
The intensification of animal farming is not just bad for the animals – it’s also ruining the planet and putting our health at risk.
The UK’s leading vegan campaigning charity
The intensification of animal farming is not just bad for the animals – it’s also ruining the planet and putting our health at risk.
Progress at last! New legislation is set to recognise molluscs and crustaceans as sentient beings in a fantastic step forward in animal welfare.
Progress! Yesterday, the European Commission banned the use of cages on animal farms in a historic win for animal rights that Viva! helped fight for.
Farmed animals have been included in The Government’s Action Plan for Animal Welfare but it’s not enough.
Retrospective planning on an intensive turkey farm in Clearwell has been refused to protect a rare bat colony and caves.
In another desperate attempt to mislead the public into buying their products, Red Tractor is hitting prime-time television with a new advert.
Search for ‘images of prawns’ on any search engine. Almost everything that comes up will present prawns in the context as something to be eaten. You’ll find them skewered, boiled or fried. It’s hard to find even a single image of a prawn who is alive. It clearly represents the predominant way in which we view prawns and shrimp; not as living creatures, but as food for humans.
Since 2013, the Scottish salmon farming industry has accrued ‘hidden’ costs amounting to £3.3 billion and is ‘wreaking ruin on marine ecosystems’.
If you truly believe that animals are sentient and can therefore experience a wide range of emotions, you wouldn’t kill them. No animal wants to die. The only way to prevent animal suffering is to go vegan.