Farm Animal Rescue

Saving Life

The Farm Animal Rescue Sanctuary based in Warwickshire is a supporter of Compassion in World Farming. The costs of running a sanctuary are very high so please consider donating to the registered charity.

Whether they be exhausted cull ewes that have been forced to breed beyond any capacity that nature intended, or animals badly injured due to careless and rapid loading of terrified sheep on to ill designed transporters. A lucky few have found their way to Farm Animal Rescue Sanctuary but the unfortunate majority are left to cope. For as the need for profit increases so mans' compassion lessens and the victims continue to suffer.

Compassionate farming is not expensive and with the resources available today, many farmers are taking on board, the lessons they need to learn in order to ensure that animal welfare is paramount.

Compassion In World Farming (based in Godalming, Surrey) hopes to improve farm animal welfare standards by comparing and ranking the progress of the country’s primary retailers. All ten supermarkets participated in the first round of the survey in 2001, won by Marks and Spencer.

In the second round of the survey in 2003, Marks and Spencer were overtaken by Waitrose who had made enormous advances in animal welfare as a direct result of CIWF's audit. With the cooperation of the supermarkets, CIWF will continue to survey their performance annually. CIWF will also be surveying supermarkets which operate on an international scale with a view to surveying performance in animal welfare worldwide.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO), which is based in Geneva, enforces a worldwide Treaty, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which insists that free trade must take precedence over other legitimate areas of public policy, such as animal protection. Under the WTO rules a country, or a group such as the European Union (EU), cannot ban imports even on ethical grounds. It cannot insist that its laws designed to protect animals or the environment must apply to imported products just as strongly as to domestically produced goods. Compassion In World Farming wants WTO rules reformed to allow countries (and groups of countries such as the EU) to be able to ban meat, milk and eggs that have not been produced to the same welfare standards as within their own territory.