Observer Ethical Awards 2011
Hurrah! The campaign I ran for Compassion in World Farming to fend off the Nocton mega-dairy has been shortlisted in the Observer Ethical Awards 2011.
OK I admit it I am really thrilled. Giddy even. Environmental campaigners don’t get many ‘wins’. Very often we have to dig down deep to find the will to keep going year after year with only incremental progress to show for our efforts. But Nocton was a decisive ‘win’. Compassion’s Cows Belong in Fields campaign was, of course, one of many against the dairy, but it was a very public, very hard fought campaign. There was no doubt that we were seen by the dairy owners as their main adversary, and seen in the media as the voice of reason.
I’d like to acknowledge that the campaign was ably aided by local campaign group CAFFO and Compassion has already pledged that should we win we will share the award with them.
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for us. For more about the Nocton campaign scroll down this page.
Related news: Congratulations to Philip Lymbery CEO of Compassion in World Farming who was this week nominated as one of the 100 most influential figures in the food industry by The Grocer Magazine. According to the Grocer: “It was the Environment Agency that put paid to Nocton Dairies’ dairy mega-herd plan, but CIWF’s Cows Belong in Fields campaign was key to pitting the public against the venture.”
