Philip Lymbery
Animal welfare author and campaigner
Philip Lymbery is an author and animal advocate who has served as chief executive of the farm animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming.
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British Born 1965 in the United Kingdom
About Philip Lymbery
Philip Lymbery has led Compassion in World Farming, a charity focused on farm animal welfare. He played a leading part in reforms across Europe that ended the use of veal crates for calves and of barren battery cages for laying hens. In March 2021 the United Nations (UN) named him a Champion for that year's Food Systems Summit. He has held a visiting professorship at the University of Winchester, has been president of Eurogroup for Animals in Brussels, and is a founding board member of the World Federation for Animals. Outside his campaigning, he is a naturalist, ornithologist and photographer. His book Farmageddon looks at the true cost of cheap meat.