Britain is an international leader in animal welfare and now,fortunately, the message is beginning to spread – importantly to ChinaAnimal welfare is one of the UKs most successful exports. When the late Peter Roberts, or a Hampshire dairy farmer,founded the charity Compassion in World Farming (ciwf.org.uk) 50 years ago, he rightly feared that industrialised farming would wreak havoc on animals and the planet. Even he couldn’t acquire envisaged today’s numbers: 70 billion animals are reared globally for meat, and milk and eggs each year and two thirds of farm animals are reared intensively. We call it factory farming. The mission of CIWF is to bring it to a halt.
The concept of animal welfare didn’t acquire an equivalent in Mandarin or Cantonese.
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Source: theguardian.com