Intensive livestock farming raises serious concerns for animal welfare, public health, and the environment due to the degraded living conditions of animals, pressure on natural resources, and increased health risks.
- Promote more sustainable and respectful agricultural practices.
- Establish constructive dialogue with all stakeholders.
- Influence French and European legislation to achieve higher animal welfare standards and ensure their effective implementation.
- Promote innovative and economically viable alternatives that support animal welfare.
- Advocate for the adoption of more ambitious European animal welfare standards.
- Create and implement an “Animal Welfare” label adopted by livestock sectors.
- Strengthen the legislative framework for animal welfare: ban caged hens, end live castration and tail docking of piglets, and stop the culling of male chicks.
- Produce studies on animal welfare.
CIWF, Compassion in World Farming, aims to study and implement all measures and encourage all initiatives to develop animal welfare-friendly farming practices and propose viable and sustainable alternatives to intensive livestock farming. One of CIWF France's main missions is to contribute to the development and dissemination of information on the consequences of harmful intensive farming practices on animals, people and the environment. CIWF France also aims to develop in France public sensitization on the suffering of animals in factory farms, and to encourage farming practices that respect animal welfare and the environment.