Dear Shirley,

This Christmas, please consider making a gift to Compassion. Together, we can achieve even more for farm animals in 2010, and bring a future without factory farming closer. You can make a donation securely online here >>

A year to be proud of

Over the past year, thanks to incredible people like you, we have been able to achieve so much for farm animals across the world:

• Over 40% of MPs supported our parliamentary motion calling for higher welfare standards and more honest labelling on chicken meat, putting it in the top 5 of MPs’ concerns
• Our ground-breaking report, Eating the Planet?, demonstrated that we don’t need factory farming to feed the world
• Our complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority resulted in adverts by the pig farming industry being banned for misleading the public over claims of “very high welfare standards”
• Our advert on the tooth-clipping of piglets prompted a leading industry journal to discourage this painful mutilation
• 60,000 calves were saved from being shot at birth or exported in the year to May 09 as a result of our partnership with the food and farming industry
• Over 20 million hens are now living a cage-free life every year thanks to the policies of our Good Egg Award winners
• Sainsbury’s, the UK’s third-largest supermarket, went cage-free on its shell eggs a year earlier than promised
• The 50th UK council went cage-free on its egg procurement
• The Chicken Out! campaign, led by Compassion and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, now has over 167,800 supporters
• Celtic Link ferries announced that it would cease to carry live animal exports on its passenger ferries following a barrage of letters from Compassion supporters and protests at Portsmouth docks
• Campaigning by our supporters helped bring the world’s attention to the horrendous slaughter of an estimated 160,000 pigs in Egypt and put pressure on the Egyptian government for a change in welfare legislation
• Sales of free-range and higher welfare food continued to rise, despite the recession
• The Treaty of Lisbon upgraded the status of animals as sentient beings, thus empowering our negotiations with the EU.

You made all this possible

It’s only thanks to the dedication and generosity of supporters like you that we can bring about real change for millions of farm animals.

Thank you for joining us in our quest to make factory farming a thing of the past.
Thank you for being part of the organisation that gets things done.

A gift of compassion

This Christmas, please consider making a gift to ensure that together, we can achieve even more for farm animals in 2010 and take another step closer to a world without the horrors of factory farming.

A donation of just £20 or whatever you can afford will directly support our campaign to end the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet.

If you don’t already, please consider making a regular monthly gift to Compassion. These gifts are important because it takes time, money and persistence to end cruelty to animals and to change attitudes to farming and food production.

• £10 a month could help support our lobbying of the European Union
• £5 a month could contribute to an undercover investigation exposing intensive farming conditions
• £3 a month could help us reach more consumers and encourage higher welfare shopping.

With warm thanks as always for all your support.

Merry Christmas to you and all whom you love,

Philip Lymbery
Chief Executive

PS. We receive no government funding so rely entirely on the generosity of our supporters to help prevent cruelty to farm animals all over the world. Please do consider helping us today.