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Pigs and cows on Helen Browning's organic (soil association accredited) farm
Sarah Dyke MP leads cross-party call for mandatory animal welfare labelling on meat products
Liberal Democrat MP and Environment spokesperson Sarah Dyke has led a cross‑party letter to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) calling on the Government to bring forward
Images from the Edinburgh stop of the Crate Britain Tour as part of Humane World for Animals UK campaign to ban farrowing crates.
Animatronic pig to tour Scotland exposing ‘pregnancy cage cruelty’ ahead of arrival in Holyrood

Humane World for Animals UK (formerly known as Humane Society International UK) will take its campaign against farrowing crates across Scotland from 11-14 April, bringing a life-size animatronic pig

Photos taken on two fur farms in Finland as part of an investigation into the cruelty of fur farming with Humane World for Animals and Finnish animal protection organisation Oikeutta Elaimille
Government’s Animal Welfare Committee condemns global fur trade, fur import ban is only credible option for UK Government says Humane World for Animals

LONDON—The Animal Welfare Committee, which advises the UK government, has published a damning report today condemning the animal suffering involved in the fur trade. Its report on ‘the responsible

Person petting pig's snout in a green field.
Humane World for Animals UK ‘applauds Government for ambitious plan’ on release of new Animal Welfare Strategy

LONDON—Humane World for Animals UK welcomes the UK Government’s publication of its new Animal Welfare Strategy, having met several times with ministers to provide extensive evidence and specific

Chickens
Consumers deserve the truth: UK Government must act on ‘pervasive misinformation’ on animal products

LONDON―Compassion in World Farming, Humane World for Animals UK and The Animal Law Foundation met with members of Parliament this morning, to call for mandatory labelling of meat products and for

Penny, the animatronic pig in a replica farrowing crate, outside the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh as part of Humane World for Animals UK's Crate Britain Tour, August 2025.
“It should be illegal”: Scottish public “shocked” by cruelty of caging mother pigs

EDINBURGH―Demonstrating local support for a ban on farrowing crates, public reactions filmed in Scotland by leading animal protection organisation Humane World for Animals UK (formerly Humane Society

a small, brown and white mouse perched on a bed of vibrant green moss
Undercover shopping reveals widespread high-street sale of cruel rodent glue traps despite being illegal for unlicensed users

LONDON—On the first anniversary of the ban on public use of cruel glue traps for small rodents, an undercover shopping investigation by animal charity Humane World for Animals UK (previously called

Fox fur farm investigation in Finland, carried out by Humane World for Animals in collaboration with Finnish animal protection group Oikeutta eläimille in late October 2024.
Pressure increases for UK Government to ban cruel fur imports as leading EU science body declares systemic animal suffering on Europe’s fur farms

LONDON—Pressure is increasing on the UK Government to ban the import and sale of cruel fur as a leading EU science body, the European Food Safety Authority, concluded in its official scientific

Replica farrowing crate and animatronic pig at Humane World for Animals UK event in the House of Commons, June 2025
New polling reveals 69% of Brits reject the practice of caging mother pigs in farrowing crates for weeks at a time

LONDON—New polling commissioned by leading animal protection organisation Humane World for Animals UK (formerly Humane Society International UK) reveals that more than two thirds (69%) of the British