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Published 29/10/2008News
Published 29/10/2008
BERNARD MATTHEWS 'NEW LOOK' IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
Bernard Matthews, the UK's largest turkey producer, has recently re-vamped the look of its turkey-based ranges after receiving bad publicity following a bird 'flu' outbreak and cruelty investigations earlier this year.
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Published 29/10/2008
Livestock emissions to be included in Climate Change Bill
Ed Miliband MP, the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has tabled an amendment to the Climate Change Bill to include methane and nitrous oxide in the commitment to curb UK greenhouse gases emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
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Published 24/10/2008
NEW FILM REVEALS ANIMAL WELFARE GUIDELINES IGNORED
As animal welfare specialists gathered for the second animal welfare conference in Cairo (20-22 October) Compassion in World Farming and Animals Australia revealed shocking new footage showing how animals are being mistreated
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Published 13/10/2008
The Meatrix is not lost in translation
The Meatrix Trilogy, a U.S. cartoons series about factory farming and its devastating effects, has been launched in Europe with translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish.
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Published 03/10/2008
Disgust as ASDA sells chicken for £2
'Going cheap hurts chickens' we say again, as one of UK's biggest supermarkets drastically cuts prices on poultry. despite the credit crunch, consumers are continuing to show they will pay the extra on the basis of animal welfare.
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Published 30/09/2008
ASDA's initiative to cut number of calves exported
Asda announced on 15 September the launch of a new supply scheme, the 360º Sustainable Dairy Calf Scheme, which will help to save unwanted calves from being shot or being exported live.
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Published 25/09/2008
Lecture calls for massive dietary change
Ground-breaking Compassion in World Farming event highlights the damaging impact of factory farming on climate change, the environment and animal welfare.
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Published 24/09/2008
Can you spare a minute?
Every year, thousands of animals suffer illness, injury, exhaustion and stress as they are transported across Europe for slaughter.
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Published 19/09/2008
EU proposes Slaughter law to improve animal welfare
On 18 September 2008, the EU Commission published a proposed new regulation on the welfare of animals at slaughter. This is largely good news for animal welfare, but much still remains to be done for the millions of animals farmed for food each…
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Published 18/09/2008
Unwanted calves: Technology helps
The results of a report released on 17 September 2008 by the SAC Dairy Research Centre present a strong business case for the use of sexed semen- a breeding technology allowing farmers to select the sex of calves prior to mating.
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