Charitable fellow!
Having marched against the bomb, against vivisection, in support of the miners and against the Poll Tax I am clearly one for a cause! These days my campaigning is mainly based around more culinary matters!
Freedom Food is the RSPCA’s farm
assurance and food labelling scheme. It is non-profit making and independent
from the food and farming industry. It focuses solely on improving
the welfare of farm animals reared for food - with welfare standards
covering the rearing, transporting and slaughter of all the most commonly
farmed animals. It covers both outdoor and indoor rearing systems
- wherever the needs of the animal can be met, but prohibits such
systems as battery cages for hens.
When you buy a product bearing the Freedom Food label, or choose a restaurant, café or pub that offers Freedom Food or other higher welfare options on their menus, you encourage more producers to adopt higher welfare standards.
Visit: www.freedomfood.co.uk for more information
School
Food Matters is a registered charity. The mission is to ensure
that every child enjoys fresh sustainable food at school and understands
where their food comes from. To achieve this we listen to schools,
parents and children. Together we urge local authorities to improve
school meals and to support food education through cooking, growing
and links with local farms.
Visit: www.schoolfoodmatters.com
Compassion
in World Farming was founded over 40 years ago in 1967 by
a British farmer horrified by the development of modern, intensive
factory farming. Today Compassion campaigns peacefully to end all
cruel factory farming practices. The organisation – the leading
farm animal welfare charity, worldwide – believes that the biggest
cause of animal cruelty on the planet deserves a focused, specialised
approach and so Compassion only works on farm animal welfare.
Compassion’s key achievements include:
• Award winning undercover investigations that have exposed
the reality of modern intensive farming systems and brought the plight
of farm animals to the attention of the world's media;
• Political lobbying and campaigning that have resulted in the
EU recognising animals as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain
and suffering, as well as landmark agreements to outlaw the barren
battery cage (for egg-laying hens), narrow veal crates and sow stalls
across Europe;
• The Good Farm Animal Welfare awards, which benefit millions
of animals each year. For instance, 25 million laying hens throughout
Europe are set to benefit as a result of Compassion’s Good Egg
Award winners’ policies; and over 174 million meat chickens
live in more humane environments as a result of Compassion’s
Good Chicken Award winners’ policies.
Visit www.ciwf.org.uk
Freedom
from Torture (formerly the Medical Foundation for the Care
of Victims of Torture) provides direct care to torture survivors and
promotes their rights so they can start to rebuild their lives. They
have five treatment centre’s around the UK who between them
have helped over 50,000 traumatised men, women and children since
they opened their doors in 1985.
The Victoria is also an active supporter of:
• The Macmillan Trust
• Street smart
• Action against Hunger