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Published 10/12/2012

Sustainable Intensification

A Chatham House conference this week will address the idea of sustainable intensification, a phrase that Compassion thinks is gobbledegook.

Published 08/12/2012

Why intensive turkeys go lame

Turkeys have been bred to grow large, meaty bodies, as quickly as possible. We know that modern industrially farmed turkeys are now so heavy and develop so much breast muscle that reproduction is done by artificial insemination.

Published 05/12/2012

EU dairy industry exposed

In August this year our investigators visited 52 farms in three countries: Germany, Europe's largest milk producer, Denmark, where the dairy industry is intensifying and Spain, where cows have little access to pasture.

Published 30/11/2012

Stranded EU bulls - new video

Video from the Turkish-Bulgarian border shows increasingly desperate situation for the bulls stranded there

Published 29/11/2012

Live exports disappointment

Today, Thanet District Council dropped its side of the legal battle over live exports from Ramsgate, and asked the exporters to do the same.

Published 29/11/2012

EU bulls stuck in truck for five days

A livestock truck with 31 bulls from Latvia is at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey aiming to take the animals to slaughterhouses in Iraq.

Dishing the Dirt on Factory Farming - Part Two

Published 29/11/2012

Dishing the dirt on factory farming - part two

Last time, we talked about how concentrated animal waste is polluting our waterways. Here we look at another side of the same problem; the effect that factory farming and animal waste have on pathogenic organisms and what this means for our…

Published 26/11/2012

Antibiotic resistance on the rise

The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics is calling on Minister of State for Agriculture, David Heath MP, to ban the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in poultry production.

Published 23/11/2012

New tactics; same inhumane trade

We have received reports that 4 lorry loads of sheep arrived today at Ramsgate, without the prior knowledge of the Port, the Police or the Government Animal Health Inspectors.