Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of the farm-animal-welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming. In a position he has held since 2005, he has played a leading role in major animal welfare reforms, including Europe-wide bans on veal crates for calves and barren battery cages for laying hens. He was appointed an ambassadorial ‘Champion’ for the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. He has also spearheaded Compassion in World Farming’s engagement with more than 1,000 food companies worldwide, leading to genuine improvements in the lives of more than two billion farm animals every year.His first book, Farmageddon, was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times. A columnist for the Scotsman, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Winchester.

PRAISE FOR SIXTY HARVESTS LEFT: Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we’ve made in our food system, but he has bold and inspiring solutions to offer, too. It’s time for Big Food, and governments everywhere, to act on them.

Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of the farm-animal-welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming. In a position he has held since 2005, he has played a leading role in major animal welfare reforms, including Europe-wide bans on veal crates for calves and barren battery cages for laying hens. He was appointed an ambassadorial ‘Champion’ for the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. He has also spearheaded Compassion in World Farming’s engagement with more than 1,000 food companies worldwide, leading to genuine improvements in the lives of more than two billion farm animals every year.His first book, Farmageddon, was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times. A columnist for the Scotsman, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Winchester.

PRAISE FOR SIXTY HARVESTS LEFT: Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we’ve made in our food system, but he has bold and inspiring solutions to offer, too. It’s time for Big Food, and governments everywhere, to act on them.