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Join END.IT: The global movement to end factory farming and transform the food-system

How we grow, produce and consume food is a major driver of nearly every global challenge: water and air pollution, food insecurity, climate change, biodiversity loss, animal cruelty, and health risks. Industrial animal agriculture – or factory farming - causes suffering to billions of animals every day and perpetuates a global system of food production that is destroying nature, ecosystems and our health.

Factory farming has gone too far - it's time to END.IT.

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Organisations supporting END.IT

Momentum is building towards ending practices that exploit animals, destroy and degrade nature, and harm human health and prosperity. There needs to be an urgent stop to harmful farming methods contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, animal suffering and unsustainable diets.

The Human Faces of Factory Farming

From the United Kingdom to Italy, and from Spain and Brazil to the USA, Compassion in World Farming has commissioned leading photographers to capture the portraits of people severely impacted by the tragic consequences of industrial animal farming.

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How we can END.IT

We must shift to nature-friendly farming practices and adopt healthy and sustainable diets that improve the well-being of people, animals and our planet. That starts with putting industrial animal agriculture and diets at the center of food-system debates.

Focus areas

Influence policy change focused on immediate action and commitments on national level to stop the expansion of industrial animal agriculture, reduce livestock, redirect resources to nature-positive farming methods and accelerate access to affordable, healthy and sustainable diets.
Build a global network of state and non-state actors, NGOs and environmental organisations dedicated to leading tangible efforts away from the confines of unsustainable, industrial animal agriculture and health-wrecking diets.
Mobilize 5 million voices globally by 2025. We need a strong global voice to stand up and call for an end to factory farming and the just transition to nature & animal positive farming methods. At the annual Conference of Parties (COP30) in 2025, leaders from each country will gather to discuss the future of our planet, health and food, with regards to the pressures of climate change. All who sign the Global Petition addressed to the United Nations (UN) will be represented at the handing over and their voices will be taken to each relevant UN meeting after.

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Book : Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets

How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and wellbeing of animals, people and the planet. This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.

Chapters explore the ways in which feeding a growing population is impacting climate change, biodiversity loss, the welfare of animals and the health of many of the people on the planet. Authors propose tangible routes in policy and practice that can effect real-world change.

The book is available as an open access e-book and can be downloaded online.

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Extinction or Regeneration Conference Speakers

"This extinction, the one we are living through, 200 species a day, a million threatened, is an extinction by design - design that’s in the industrial agriculture system."
Vandana Shiva - Activist, academic and campaigner
"My productivity and profits went up because I started to move towards a natural system."
Seth Watkins – Regenerative farmer Pinhook Farm
"There’s no question that the current food system poses an existential threat to humanity."
James Bailey – Executive Director Waitrose
"The health of soil, plants, animals, peoples, ecosystems and the planet is one and indivisible."
Rattan Lal - Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science The Ohio State University
"We need to stop prioritising the money and we need to put the SDG targets and indicators above the money and the markets"
Stefanos Fotiou – Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub

Extinction or Regeneration?

The Extinction or Regeneration Conference, organised with IPES-Food and other partners, provided a platform for experts across the globe to share solutions for how we can transform our food and farming systems for better human, animal and planetary health.  

Interested in collaborating? Get in touch

Contributions to END.IT

Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can END IT
Governments and the poultry sector usually blame wild birds for bird flu, playing down factory farming’s role in developing this highly infectious disease. However, the International Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza reiterated in its 2023 report that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza originated in the poultry sector, not wild birds.

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More money, More meat
Our excessive appetite for animal-sourced foods − such as meat, fish, dairy and eggs − is harming us, damaging our planet, and depriving farmed animals of lives worth living. Urgent global action is needed to transform diets and food production for our health, animals, and the environment.

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Factory farming: Who benefits?
How did we get to the point where factory farming so dominates global animal agriculture? This report examines several self-serving myths that help perpetuate factory farming. It then looks at the big input providers whose profitability is dependent on animal agriculture continuing to be industrial.

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Recent open letters for change

Stop octopus farm plans
Open letter, co-signed by 75 organisations, addressed to the Canary Islands and Spanish government urging them to halt octopus farm plans.

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COP27: Transform our food system
Open letter at COP27 urging world leaders to swiftly transition away from industrial animal agriculture, advocating for nature-positive farming to restore biodiversity and curb global temperature increases.

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Bird Flu
A letter to ministers accompanying a report from Compassion in World Farming addressing the bird flu crisis, underscoring the necessity for substantial agricultural reforms to resolve this issue.

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Faith action for better human, animal and planetary health

The UN emphasizes the urgency of transforming food systems due to their significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and the plight of billions unable to access a healthy diet.

A recent webinar features renowned speakers introducing faiths' perspectives on food systems, showcasing practical initiatives for sustainable farming and diets in line with the UN's vision outlined in the report "Making food systems work for people and planet."

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Send us a message to request more information, get a copy of the Theory-of-Change or reach out to join the END.IT movement as a partner.

You can do this by emailing end.it@ciwf.org or by sending us a message.

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