Media Coverage

Well over 500 media stories within the UK and abroad interviewed CAW members or covered their work. Some members appear weekly in animal welfare-focused stories. Prominent examples included Channel 4’s Dispatches: The Truth About Your Chicken in 2021 and BBC Panorama’s A Cow’s Life: The True Cost of Milk? in 2022, both interviewing Prof. Knight. Both prime time television documentaries helped expose major animal welfare problems within the UK, with the latter being reported in 10+ additional media outlets. The 2022 publication of Prof. Knight and Dr. Brown’s study ‘Vegan versus meat-based dog food: guardian-reported indicators of health’ in a leading science journal was prominently reported within The Times, The Guardian, and over 400 other media outlets globally (in multiple languages), with coverage continuing by mid 2022. Within a week of publication this open access article had been viewed 19,000+ times, and is on course to become the most viewed article in its field. Even the Queen was being encouraged to reconsider what she feeds her corgis (Woman & Home, 2022).

In 2022, BBC’s Panorama programme helped expose major animal welfare problems within the UK.