[1] He regularly speaks at international events and commentates in the media about the global effects of industrial agriculture (factory farming), including its impact on animal welfare, wildlife, soil and natural resources, biodiversity and climate change, as well as the need for more balanced, regenerative agriculture and sustainable food systems.
[5] After leaving college, Lymbery volunteered for several months at an RSPB reserve, Titchwell Marsh, Norfolk.
He has expanded the charity’s operations internationally, including establishing offices in the EU, US and China and repositioned the charity as an animal welfare environmental organisation linking animal welfare and food policy to environmental decline.
[11] Lymbery also set up the Extinction and Livestock conference in London in October 2017, bringing together Compassion in World Farming and WWF UK, supported by HRH Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation.
[12] He predicted that meat eating will be a thing of the past by 2100 in a debate at Oxford Union in January 2018 and in an op-ed article published in The Daily Telegraph the same month.
[13] Lymbery's first book, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat,[14] is described as 'a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices, looking behind the closed doors of the runaway industry and striving to find a better farming future.
"[14] This was followed by the publication of ‘Farmageddon in Pictures: The True Cost of Cheap Meat [17] – in bite-sized pieces, a pictorial version of the original.
[17] Lymbery’s second book Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were,[18] focuses on how industrial agriculture is a major driver of wildlife declines worldwide: from mammals, to sea life, birds, reptiles and insects.
TV presenter and naturalist, Chris Packham, CBE, described Dead Zone as: "An honest, compelling and important account and a critical lease for a fusion of farming, food and nature.
[24] He has travelled extensively and spent 10 years leading wildlife tours for Gulliver’s Natural History Holidays to locations including the Seychelles, Costa Rica, Morocco, the United States of America and various destinations in Europe.
[6] A keen photographer, Lymbery is also a naturalist and environmentalist aiming to draw attention to the role of industrial agriculture in the decline of wildlife worldwide.
This book not only reveals how industrial farming is ruining our soils but shows how we can adapt to restore the planet for a nature-friendly future.
The book is focused on the impacts of industrial farming on wildlife worldwide: from mammals, to sea life, birds, reptiles and insects.
Published by Bloomsbury in January 2014, Farmageddon is described as 'a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices, looking behind the closed doors of the runaway industry and striving to find a better farming future.
"A Comparison between Slaughterhouse Standards and Methods Used during Whaling", "An Introduction into Animal Welfare", in Philippa Brakes, Andrew Butterworth, Mark Simmons & Philip Lymbery, Troubled Waters – A Review of the Welfare Implications of Modern Whaling Activities.