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Sustainable chicken kievs
Farmer Jimmy Doherty has been taking on three of Tesco's best-selling own brand products: chicken kievs, meatballs and 'standard' sausages, and looking at how to make higher-welfare versions for the same affordable price.
Read moreIt is Pastured Poultry Week in Georgia!
Georgians for Pastured Poultry (GPP), an alliance that is promoting the use of high-welfare, pasture raised poultry in Georgia, has created Pastured Poultry Week that is currently taking place, until Sunday, June 17, 2012.
Read moreThe fishy business of factory farming
Friday marked World Oceans Day, so we thought we’d lift the lid on one of the lesser-known areas of factory farming – intensive fish farming.
Read moreThe dairy dilemma
Historically, male dairy calves have been treated as a waste product of the industry.
Read more9 numbers you don’t want to know
Whether counted on one hand or up in the billions, the figures of factory farming are shocking. The reality check starts here...
Read moreNew research supports Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics
Dutch scientists have found much lower levels of antibiotic use and prevalence of MRSA on organic pig farms compared with non-organic pig farms.
Read more"Super farms" good for the environment? We say no!
The Guardian asked us to respond to an article on "super", or large-scale, intensive farms and their impact on planet and people. Here's what we said.
Read moreSlaughter footage reveals horrifying suffering
Compassion has today released harrowing footage of slaughter practices which are causing untold suffering to countless animals and which the charity believes to be commonplace across much of the developing world.
Read moreFree-range sausages that are affordable
Following last week's programme, about veal meat balls, Jimmy Doherty tackled Tesco's own brand sausages this week. How will he make free range, affordable bangers?
Read moreJoanna Lumley marks live export anniversary
Joanna Lumley has renewed her call for an end to live animal exports from Ramsgate, Kent, one year after they started up from the port.
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