Campaigning for a better life for farm animals that doesn't cost the earth
Yet another disaster at sea proves these journeys are just too risky There has been yet another deeply concerning situation regarding a livestock vessel full of cattle and sheep. The Express M departed from Romania for Haifa on Saturday 22nd … Continued
Ethical Farming Ireland has been campaigning for many years against live export. We have repeatedly urged Stena Line to stop transporting unweaned calves from Rosslare port in Ireland to Cherbourg port in France. Since campaigning began, we have attended two … Continued
Once again the year was dominated by live export, which saw a 12% increase and another new market coming on the scene – Israel. Unweaned calf export increased by 19%, but export outside the EU actually decreased by 42%, with … Continued
RTE Investigates exposed the Irish dairy industries dirty secret in July 2023. It highlighted the horrendous ordeal unweaned calves go through, mostly male dairy calves that are an unwanted by product of the industry. It featured a cruel veal farm … Continued
Investigation into dairy calf export from Ireland to Europe On 20th March of this year EFI conducted another investigation into the export of unweaned calves from Ireland, with L214 and Eyes on Animals. We were also joined by RTE’s investigation … Continued
2022 saw us coming out of the pandemic and things slowly started getting back to normal. Here is an overview of our activities and achievements across the year. January – March: Non-EU export grows, welfare breaches, and calf export investigation … Continued
In September 2022, Ethical Farming Ireland joined the Aquatic Animal Alliance, a coalition of more than one hundred animal welfare NGOs created by the Aquatic Life Institute (including Action for Dolphins, CIWF, L214, Sentient Media and Viva!) who have come … Continued
Animals International, Compassion in World Farming and Eyes on Animals have joined forces with Ethical Farming Ireland in an Open Letter to the Minister. In the letter we outline ongoing, serious concerns around the sea journeys to countries in North … Continued
EFI monitors calves at Rosslare Since EFI’s formation, our biggest campaigning effort has been against live export. We have focused on the export of unweaned calves because we believe it is being conducted unlawfully as feeding requirements cannot be met … Continued
As a family of gorgeous piglets are welcomed into the world at My Lovely Pig Rescue, Compassion in World Farming has launched a major new undercover investigation exposing the immense suffering of sows in cage systems on EU farms, including … Continued