My name is Biddy Miller and I can’t tell you how heartwarming it is to know that there are people like you out there. You give me hope on the dismally abysmal situation in the farming/food industry. Where can I get your eggs? Then I can feed my kids eggs without any guilt.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
With warm and heartfelt regards
-Biddy
Dear Mike,
Wow, have just read the interview with compassionate world farming and seen what you are doing!! Wonderful! So glad there are farmers like you out there. Don't stop!!
-Peta Brookes
Labels that Deceive
Monday, 02 March 2009
Why is it that we allow animal-derived products to be presented to us without proper labels to indicate whether the animal concerned had a life worth living or not?
How convenient it is for producers to conduct their farming operations away from public view and then, on top of that, to have a nation of consumers so undiscerning and ready to believe that the product was humanely produced!
Compassion in World Farming (South Africa) is calling on our supermarkets to introduce a welfare checklist label on all animal-derived products that will afford consumers the right to make informed choices. Please see our poster 211.52 Kb and add your voice to our call.
‘Fitting’ them for a life of laying eggs in a battery cage
Monday, 16 February 2009
This excruciating operation whereby the beak is melted away by being pressed against a red hot blade, is inflicted on 22.8 million chicks in South Africa every year to ‘fit’ them for a life of laying eggs in a battery cage.
Mike and his Boschveld Chickens
Monday, 16 February 2009
"In January this year, South African farmer Mike Bosch received world recognition in Brussels for his free range eggs and farming methods. Mike and his Indigenous Boschveld Chickens are proof that the brutal mutilation of debeaking baby chicks can and must be stopped."
Zimbabwian born farmer Mike Bosch has a free range chicken farm near Bela - Bela (Warmbaths) in the Limpopo province of South Africa that is green, humane, flourishing and as African as it gets. He kindly agreed to an interview with Louise van der Merwe, South African Representative for Compassion in World Farming.
(Banishing the battery egg to the bin of Bad Ideas)
To reach an agreement with government for an official phase-out of
battery cages for laying hens. For the latest on this campaign and how
you can help, please see our poster.
Freedom for caged chickens
Thursday, 04 December 2008
Compassion in World Farming (South Africa) has responded to an article in The Germiston City News, as follows:
Dear Editor,
I refer to your article ‘Cruel Chicken Hawker's Stock is Confiscated’ (Germiston City News, 5 December 2008) and commend the Germiston SPCA for rescuing 358 chickens from a hawker site in Katlehong. According to your article, the inspectors rescued the chickens because they were kept by the hawker in cages so cramped and overcrowded that they were unable to open their wings, did not have enough perching space, nor solid bases on which to stand. From the photo, it is clear that the chickens are end-of-lay hens.
On World Water Day (22nd March) and on every other day, for that matter, we need to remember that meat-eating carries a giant water footprint. Did you know? It takes 13 million litres of water to raise and convert one cow or ox into meat! Did you know? To produce one portion of beef (250g) requires the same amount of drinking water that one person needs (at one litre a day) for 34 years of life!
For further info, go to: http://www.waterfootprint.org/
Action Alert 
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