Throwing the book at factory farming

Our short film highlights the key moments from our three-year journey behind the closed doors of the factory farm industry. For decades, our farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as our food industry has gone global. Every year, we farm nearly 70 billion animals for meat, milk and eggs. By the time you finish reading this sentence, around 4,000 farm animals will have been slaughtered. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. Most farm animals are now raised in factory farms – intensive systems that produce vast quantities of seemingly cheap meat, milk and eggs. But this industry endangers everything we hold dear: our health; our livelihoods; our countryside; the welfare of animals. Find out more about the dangers of factory farming. Click on the image to order Farmageddon online or get a copy in any good book shop. Compassion in World Farming CEO, Philip Lymbery has joined award-winning journalist Isabel Oakeshott to tell the story of our global farming system gone mad. We’ve called this story Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Fascinating and terrifying in equal measure, Farmageddon documents an investigative journey behind the closed doors of the factory farming industry. It busts the myth that factory farming is needed to feed the world. With stories from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico, the book shows that none of us are safe from the factory farming machine. Farmageddon is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future. Stella McCartney shows her support for Farmageddon © Peter John Morgan Unless we do something now, we face farmageddon – a future of rubbish food, trashed lands, surging disease and growing world hunger. Pledge to help end factory farming! Submit your email address to allow Compassion in World Farming to send you urgent campaign actions and news (you can unsubscribe at any time). Find out more about Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat. Read more » Join hundreds of thousands of people to help stop farmageddon! Read more » is fully justified: agriculture has seriously lost its way and since it sits at the heart of all our lives - and the lives of all other creatures - this places the whole world in danger ... Farmageddon is an excellent book.