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Campaign for High Welfare Chicken - Channel 4 Tonight

Beth Granter | 26.01.2009 18:34 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Health | South Coast | World

Don’t forget to watch Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too in Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. This programme will reveal what happened when Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall attempted to change Tesco’s policies of selling intensively reared chicken.

Compassion in World Farming features in tonight’s programme and has been instrumental in helping Hugh launch his campaign to give chickens a better life. You might remember that in June we helped to raise the £86,600 demanded by Tesco to bring Hugh’s resolution to their AGM, and provided scientific research and investigative footage to validate Hugh’s argument.

We also campaigned for consumers to raise their concerns with Tesco and placed adverts in national newspapers to encourage shareholders to support the resolution. Since then, we’ve been working together with Hugh encouraging the food industry to put high welfare standards at the top of their agenda.

Tesco fought our campaign all the way and the resolution was defeated, but following the failure of 20 per cent of shareholders to back the company's position – an unusually strong protest at a FTSE 100 AGM – Tesco began talks on chicken welfare. Watch tonight to find out more…

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Beth Granter
- e-mail: beth@ciwf.org
- Homepage: http://www.ciwf.org

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welfare in slaughter?

27.01.2009 20:56



Welfare is synonmous with well-being. Is there any with a knife to the throat?

Give up the double-speak CIWF.

Vegantruthist
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Hypocrites

28.01.2009 14:17

How is looking after the welfare of something sending it to its death?

Is it okay if there is a holocaust/genocide as long as the victims are treated okay beforehand?
I don't think so.


CIWF is just making a harder job for the Animal Rights Movement by making everyone believe in "happy meat".

knowthefacts


CA

28.01.2009 16:50

Hugh is a hypocrit. He is quite hapyt to support the murdering CA and their blood lust!

anon


Eating less meat

30.01.2009 08:22

Compassion in World Farming do support people eating less meat as you can see here:  http://www.ciwf.org.uk/your_food/sustainable_food. But not everyone is vegetarian or vegan, so we want those people to take steps to only buy organic or free-range meat and dairy, which you must agree is a step in the right direction?

There was a program about pig farming in the same series last night, there's a number of interesting comments on that article  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/420605.html

Beth Granter
mail e-mail: beth@ciwf.org
- Homepage: http://www.ciwf.org