CIWF has a strong track record in lobbying, research and education and played a key role in achieving UK and European Union (EU ) phase-outs of some of the most damaging livestock production systems such as the keeping of calves in narrow crates for veal, the confinement of breeding sows in narrow crates throughout their pregnancies and the keeping of laying hens in barren battery cages.

CIWF initiated and led the EU -wide campaign to have animals recognized as “sentient beings” – a campaign which achieved success with the adoption of the Protocol on the protection and welfare of animals in the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997. CIWF engages positively with farmers and the food industry, rewarding good practice, and has developed innovative resources on Good Agricultural Practice in Animal Welfare.

CIWF believes that the future of livestock farming is inextricably linked to several major global issues:

• the adverse environmental impact of the global growth in meat production
• our new scientific understanding of animals as sentient beings
• the links between higher consumption of certain animal products and raised incidences of the “diseases of affluence”
• the trend to consolidation and vertical integration of meat production, and its social impact, including rural-urban drift.

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• Social effects of the intensification of livestock production
• Livestock's Long Shadow, Environmental Issues and Options
• Compassion in World Farming

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• Ecological costs of livestock grazing in western North America