Professor F.W. Rogers Brambell led a 1964 Committee inquiry into animal welfare on intensive farms, investigating how factory farming had transformed traditional animal husbandry.

The Brambell Report revealed the scale and conditions of intensive systems, argued that animals’ welfare had been neglected, and helped lay the foundation for modern animal welfare standards.

Animal Rights Tour is written by Sean Butler, hosted by Carly McCann, and fact-checked by Paulina Siemieniec. 

This podcast is produced by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, an academic centre of competence dedicated to the study of fundamental rights for non-human animals. Learn more about the Centre at animalrightslaw.org.