Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity

Our investigation into Heal Farms caged egg facility has been shared in the Grocer - the leading UK grocery publication, boasting over 551,000 monthly online visitors 🙌

➡️ Read the article: thegrocer.co.uk/news/hell-for-hens-uncovered-in-investigation-at-shropshire-farm/716162.article

We call on the Department for Business and Trade to secure an animal welfare carve-out in SPS agreements, paving the way for a full ban on foie gras imports.

We have joined fellow animal rights organisations in supporting Animal Equality’s call for Labour to uphold its promise to ban the importation of foie gras.

Today, representatives are at 10 Downing Street to deliver a petition signed by 315,000 supporters demanding action.

Join our next vegan outreach training online event! Everyone is welcome - whether you're new to activism with Viva! or would like a refresher 🙏

The meeting will be held over Zoom on 19 March at 6PM.

Please register in advance for this meeting 👉
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🚩 The Government admits these cages “do not fully provide for the physical and behavioural needs of laying hens.” If we’re truly a nation of animal lovers, why are we still allowing this cruelty?

➡️ Sign our petition to ban cages in the UK: viva.org.uk/cage-ban-fb

Thank you!

We cannot allow the Government to fail these animals.

Urge the Labour Government to make a complete cage ban legally binding before 2029.

🖊️ Sign the petition: viva.org.uk/cage-ban-fb

Caged systems still produce around 17% of the UK’s eggs — and this is what life looks like inside.

Will you help end this cruelty? Go vegan and sign our petition to ban cages now! 👉 viva.org.uk/cage-ban-fb

Our egg farm investigation is IN PRINT in the Metro today 👇 Almost a million copies are distributed across 50 UK cities each day 🤯 - and it's estimated that the readership hits even higher at approximately 5 million!

🐔 See more from the farm: viva.org.uk/heal-farms-fb

❗️ Overcrowding, deformities and filth found at British Lion Assured UK Egg Farm

Crammed together and mutilated, hens suffer for eggs we don't need. Read more here: viva.org.uk/heal-farms

Shocking images show chickens 'pecking at hen's corpse' at egg facility 'I expected cruelty, but I was not prepared for how grim and overwhelming it felt in person.'

British Egg Farm Cruelty Exposed. Caged facilities supply around 17 per cent of the UK’s eggs.
metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/s...

Behind the scenes at a caged egg facility in the UK.

Mutilated, stressed and feather pecked beyond recognition, these hens suffer for eggs we don’t need.

❗️ Sign our petition urging the government to uphold their proposal to ban cages: 
viva.org.uk/cage-ban-fb

Sign our petition urging the government to legislate a ban on cages: viva.org.uk/cage-ban-fb

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: BRITISH EGG FARM CRUELTY

Viva! Campaigns investigators went undercover at a caged egg facility at Heal Farm in Shropshire in 2023 and 2025.

➡️ metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/shocking-images-show-chickens-pecking-hens-corpse-egg-facility-27134702

Pigs are emotionally sensitive animals and when placed under extreme stress and confinement, they suffer. 💔 #NationalPigDay

Well done to the growing London team for their brilliant outreach in Leicester Square! 🌱

The next event in London will be on 28 March 11:30-14:00 in Leicester Square. Please join if you can 🙏

➡️ Get involved: viva.org.uk/viva-volunteer-community/street-actions-and-protests

Important to remember this #WorldWildlifeDay 🐾 🌳

References:
Smith P, et al. 2014
Machovina B, Feeley KJ and Ripple WJ. 2015.

Become a Viva! Stall Volunteer and raise vital funds and awareness for our life-saving campaigns! 🐷 🌱

If you like the idea of raising funds for our animal friends and promoting veganism, get in touch 🙏

Find out more and sign up here 👉 viva.org.uk/viva-volunteer-community/market-and-fair-volunteers

Composting can cut your household waste by about 40% 🤯

Instead of sending food scraps and garden trimmings to the landfill, you can turn them into a nutrient-rich vegan fertiliser that will nourish your plants. 🌸 Do you compost in your garden?

It's not a sustainable way of eating.

Each year, 766 million tonnes of grain fit for human consumption are fed to livestock instead of people.

It is time to recognise this for what it is: the largest form of food waste in the world.

Leona has been vegan since 2012 and is a passionate advocate for animal rights - she also co-owns the vegan coffee shop Coffee and Plants in Los Angeles 🥰

Photo credit: leonalewis Instagram

🚨 The truth behind British eggs incoming. Watch this space.

Most farmed animals never reach adulthood 😢

Andy Imms is taking on the Rasselbock (28 March) and Portland Pig (1 May) Backyard Ultras – all while raising funds for Viva! 🙌

Support his incredible challenge via his JustGiving page and help power our Viva! vegan hero to the world stage 👉 justgiving.com/page/andy-imms-byu

It’s cheaper to be a (healthy) vegan 🌱 😉

Oxford University research shows that in countries such as the US, UK, Australia and Western Europe, vegan diets are the most affordable and reduce food costs by up to a third.

➡️ viva.org.uk/health/blog-health/smart-savvy-and-plant-powered-vegan-on-a-budget

Well done Southampton University students and Plant Based Universities 👏

The student vote was in favour of making plant-based menus the default option at its catering facilities, and the university will make changes at its student union from the start of the 2026/27 academic year.

A cruel, destructive industry which must be shut down.

In addition to this, animal agriculture is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss worldwide.

Society as a whole NEEDS to shift towards a plant-based diet to prevent ecosystem collapse.

The animal farming industry sells a fantasy. We expose the reality. Cages too small to move. Babies killed for being a “waste product.”

Help us continue exposing cruelty and growing a stronger, louder vegan movement.

👉 Join or donate to Viva and help make animals visible: viva.org.uk/join

Our campaigns manager Katie will be speaking at Vegfest Free 26 in April! 🙌 Tickets are FREE for this event in Birmingham. Get your ticket at vegfest.co.uk

Who’s spotted our billboard in Cheltenham? 😍

Thanks to incredibly generous Viva! supporters, our billboard has been lighting up Priors Road all month!

If you’d like to fund a Viva! billboard in your area, please contact rebecca@viva.org.uk 🌱