Roaming Wild details the unconventional and pioneering lives of
Anna and Peter Roberts, a British couple who were instrumental in
making the animal welfare movement a respectable, highly-impactful
and worldwide organisation. This book explores the paths that led
Anna and Peter to found and steward what is now the world's largest
and most successful animal welfare charity from a backroom of their
own home, with few funds, and at a time when caring for animals and
our planet was seen as 'crankish' and 'sentimental'. This is the
story of their family, their era, influence, their rebellion and
prophetic ideas and the development of Compassion in World Farming.
It spans the period from the early 1920s when they were born,
throughout the decades of their childhoods and World War II, to
their highly romantic meeting and marriage in the 1950s, and then
the next years of their lives as dairy and chicken farmers in rural
Hampshire. This 'ordinary' part of their story preceded their move
to change everything by making the 'extraordinary' decision during
the tumultuous 1960s, of risking their livelihood, going vegetarian
(as animal farmers), and losing the approval of their peers, to
found their compassion-driven campaign. This personal
transformation was at a time when the British countryside was also
transforming, irrevocably and for the worse, when intensive,
polluting farms were just taking root, the cruel battery and
broiler system had recently been developed, and the countryside's
biodiversity was being destroyed with the implementation of
monoculture and the profligate spraying of lethal biocides, such as
DDT. The Roberts were at first rejected by the popular animal
charities of the day; believing that the public cared only about
companion animals or those in circuses, rather than those animals
who suffer the most at human hands - those in the food chain - and
so the Roberts family went out alone and set up CIWF in the face of
much public derision. Then followed the highs and lows of campaign
life, a court battle with an order of veal-farming Catholic monks,
famine campaigns in Ethiopia, work alongside comedian Spike
Milligan, model Celia Hammond and philosopher Peter Singer,
challenging EU legislation, and battles with agricultural and
chemical giant Monsanto. Corporate giants like McDonald's were
influenced to go free-range, even the British Royal family was
challenged to go free-range, and animals were put on the agenda of
every major political party in the 1970s and much more. The story
interweaves the personal with the political and documents the highs
and lows of family life, the judgement faced when they chose to
raise their three daughters as vegetarians in the 1960s, their
myriad spiritual quests, including the couple's time spent in the
Indian ashram of Sathya Sai Baba, their rewilding of the land near
their family home, and the story of their fifty-year love. This is
a tale of an 'ordinary couple with an extraordinary vision'.
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