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Compassion in World Farming (CIWF)

Global Impact Report 2025

Compassion in World Farming is a global charity working to end factory farming and improve farmed animal welfare through corporate engagement, policy advocacy and public campaigning. In 2024–25, backed by 1.6 million supporters, it secured welfare commitments covering 3.1 billion animals annually, achieved a landmark ban on GB live exports after 50 years of campaigning, gathered 1 million END.IT petition signatures, and triggered a UK Parliamentary debate on banning cages for farmed animals.

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Corporate engagement securing higher-welfare pledges from global food businesses; ChickenTrack, EggTrack and PigTrack monitoring programmes; Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards (Paris, 49 companies, 15+ countries); End the Cage Age parliamentary campaign; live exports campaigning; COP29 engagement; Factory Farming and Muck mapping tools; FOOD FOR GOOD podcast; Better Chicken Business Network (160+ members, 17 countries)

📊Key Metrics

Over 3.1 billion animals set to benefit every year across 40 countries through corporate welfare commitments secured with global food companies Key Metric 1
END.IT campaign reached more than one million petition signatures by August 2025; global media reach of 6.17 billion across the campaign Key Metric 2
1.6 million supporters and 100,000 donors active in 2024/25; 18.9 billion estimated opportunities to read about CIWF's work generated through media coverage Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Historic ban on live animal exports from Great Britain for slaughter or fattening achieved after 50 years of campaigning — ending harrowing long-distance journeys for millions of animals
  • Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards 2024 celebrated 49 leading companies across 15+ countries, collectively set to transform the lives of over 500 million farmed animals annually
  • UK Parliament petition to ban cages for farmed animals passed 100,000 signatures, triggering a Parliamentary debate with cross-party support in June 2025

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