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• 1991 – Free range eggs introduced onto the shelves of Pick ‘n Pay and Woolworths
• 1997 – Amidst lawyers letters and legal threats as a result of our publishing shocking photos, live-plucking of ostriches before slaughter is finally banned by the industry.
• 2001 – We take Humane Education into 11 schools in the Western Cape Education Department’s Safe Schools programme. Caring Classrooms, our ensuing video on the impact of Humane Education on learner behaviour is launched in Brussels and receives international acclaim.
• 2003 – At the invitation of the Dept of Education, we officially participate in the process of integrating Humane Education in the SA Curriculum.
• 2003 – Compassion in World Farming hosts the All-Africa Humane Education Summit in Cape Town. Educators from 18 African countries at-tend. Mr Ronald Swartz, head of Education in the Western Cape, is our keynote speaker.
• 2003 – Compassion in World Farming’s SA representative and editor of Animal Voice, Louise van der Merwe, receives the Campaigner of the Year award by IFAW/ Animal Talk magazine.
• 2004 – Woolworths bans battery eggs from all its stores nationwide. CEO Simon Susman gives credit for this to Compassion in World Farming (SA).
• 2004 – Free range broiler (meat) chickens become available in most supermarkets.
• 2005 - We expose calf cruelty and Woolworths instructs its dairy suppliers to raise male calves to maturity.
• 2005 - The Dairy News, mouthpiece of the Milk Producers Organisation alerts farmers to the need to treat calves humanely. However the treatment of calves is not yet resolved and remains an ongoing issue.
• 2006 - We publish South Africa’s first Kind Food Guide.
• 2006 - Parliament opens debate on whether animals should be acknowledged as sentient beings in the SA Constitution.
• 2006 - Teacher Vivienne Rutgers who has worked closely with us for four years to become a Humane Education Specialist, is invited to speak on Humane Education at the
  United Nations Forum on Sustainable Development, New York.
• 2007 - Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition, Sandra Botha signs Animals Matter Petition to the UN.
• 2007 - Compassion in World Farming (SA) and Humane Education supporters collect more than 100 000 signatures for Animals Matter petition and hand them to Deputy Director for Animal Health, Dr Siegfried Meyer.
• 2007 - Dr Meyer subsequently visits Compassion in World Farming (SA) Representative in Khayelitsha, Mr Thabani Mangcu, to hear local views on the plight of animals in informal settlements.
• 2007 – Our Humane Education readers are selected by the Western Cape Education Department for its 100 Books in Every Grade project for 2008.
• 2007 - Pick n Pay launches free range pork
• 2008 – Acknowledged as a role player in consumer affairs, Compassion in World Farming (SA) is invited to address the ABSA Bank-sponsored Consumer Day celebrations held in Johannesburg by the National Consumer Forum.
• 2008 – Dept of Agriculture launches training and awareness programme in Khayelitsha, including humane slaughter methods.

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