Sarah Johnson 🇺🇦🌳🤱🏼

Mum of 4, grandma of 3.5, birth+4th trimester educator, BFC, doula, wants better deal for animals. London + NW Norfolk.

[Sarah Johnson 🇺🇦🌳🤱🏼 @sarahccjohnson]

Please if you are against the unspeakably cruel live transport trade, sign and share this petition!
Bill shelved on spurious, cowardly grounds - "Oh, Labour might add an amendment about hunting" #stoplivetransport
@ciwf

[Debbie Matthews @PetTheftUK]

@SAMPAuk_ @andreajenkyns @VetsGetScanning @BrendaBlethyn @DeborahMeaden @MissingPetsGB @millypod1 @WaterhousePat @DogLostUK @pettheftaware We wish for the Government to reverse its decision to scrap the Animal Welfare #KeptAnimalsBill, and to dedicate Parliamentary time to its passage and enact it into law. #PetTheftReform New Petition https://t.co/pCpCIBtYrU

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

"Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined... They are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect and our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?"
Dr. Jane Goodall

@CIWF_Global

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

Don't let anyone fool you! Plans to farm octopus must be stopped.

Nueva Pescanova applied to the Las Palmas Port Authority to build the world's first commercial octopus farm. Tell the port authority to close the application: https://t.co/KrAfWJGpiv

[Sarah Johnson 🇺🇦🌳🤱🏼 @sarahccjohnson]

@0ivankaTrump1 What business is it of yours?

[Sarah Johnson 🇺🇦🌳🤱🏼 @sarahccjohnson]

@BillKristol A classic.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

We've been informed that the Port Authority of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria took a first step towards closing the application to build the world’s first octopus farm.

We must keep up the pressure until the file is officially closed. Speak out: https://t.co/KrAfWJGpiv

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Another U-Turn!

Conservatives have forced the government to drop their deranged plan to slaughter the Dartmoor ponies.

[Dartmoor Hillies @DartmoorHillies]

The @BBCNews joined us on Dartmoor today to hear why so many people are fighting to protect the Dartmoor Hill Ponies. 🐴 Thank you to everyone helping keep this issue in the spotlight. Together, we’re making sure their voices are heard. 💚 #dartmoor #ponies @NaturalEngland

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

For #BanLiveExportsDay today we’ve launched an open letter with more than 130 charities, celebrities & experts, calling on @WOAH to improve welfare for farmed animals during transport, and ultimately #BanLiveExports

Please do find out more and sign 🙏: https://t.co/P2yI6ackyW

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

Every year, around 9 million pigs in the UK endure the terror of CO2 slaughter.

Please donate today to help secure a UK ban on CO2 pig slaughter and end cruelty for all farmed animals. Donations will be matched up to a total of £55,000: https://t.co/3YBfYn3WlF

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

This explains cats more than any words could EVER:
https://t.co/3IpTTJ6gLm

[#luv4alluk Ⓥ @MottramSha32061]

@ciwf @WOAH Pls will you look into Hartshead Meats Ltd, Slaughterhouse in Mossley where the most horrific animal torture was exposed. Gentle cows had their heads cut off whilst fully conscious. Public outrage is growing & will continue to. Can you support?🙏

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

One of the longest journeys farmed animals are forced to endure at sea.

This suffering is completely unnecessary - we've banned live exports from Great Britain - now it's time for global action.

Sign the open letter to @WOAH: https://t.co/pbuRudRpML

[Sarah Johnson 🇺🇦🌳🤱🏼 @sarahccjohnson]

At least get your grammar right. It’s FEWER babies. And just in case you haven’t noticed, the birth rate is falling. People are worried about having families.

[Impiety @NoHolyScripture]

LESS BABIES!

We don't need more people; we need better conditions for the people already here. With finite resources, environmental pressures, and billions still lacking basic necessities, the focus should be on well-being, sustainability, and opportunity, not population growth!

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

We've banned live exports from Britain, now we need this to happen around the world.

We’ve written an open letter to the World Organisation for Animal Health (@WOAH) calling on them to end this inhumane trade.

Add your name: https://t.co/pbuRudRpML

#BanLiveExports

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

Ahead of #BanLiveExports International Awareness Day, more than 130 charities, celebrities and experts from 33 countries have joined our call for a global ban on live exports.

Add your name to our open letter: https://t.co/pbuRudRpML

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Love that Nigel’s big “gotcha” is mostly a screenshot of the office address and letter heading 😂

Let’s help him out by highlighting the actual contents he didn’t bother to read.

For those who prefer facts to rage, our detailed legal analysis on PSED is in the thread below 👇

[Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf]

Our phone box will be ringing in Parliament all week! 📞🐔

We will be showcasing over 10,000 written and recorded messages, all calling for a ban on keeping hens in cages, as an exhibition inside Parliament.

Invite your MP to attend: https://t.co/fg42WyA90m