Amy Firth has a BSc in Animal Welfare Science. Firth joined WSPA after graduating in 2001 and currently manages WSPA's farm animal welfare programme.  WSPA has UN and Council of Europe consultative status and works at the head of the world's largest federation of over 650 local animal welfare organisations in 138 countries worldwide to protect animals from exploitation and suffering. WSPA believes that change will come through a mixture of education, direct action and legislation. WSPA is opposed to intensive industrial animal farming and believes that by working with local groups in 12 countries around the world to highlight the problems inherent to industrial animal agriculture and promote humane and sustainable alternatives.  Firth's career with WSPA has taken her to the furthest reaches of the planet from Colombia where she took part in the country's 1st ever animal welfare conference, a world health summit in Mexico, and more recently a conference about meat quality and safety in Beijing attended by a number of world renown animal welfare experts such as Professor Donald Broom of Cambridge University and Dr David Fraser of the University of British Colombia.