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Published 02/10/2010News
Published 02/10/2010
Compassion supports World MRSA Day
Compassion in World Farming's Philip Lymbery has joined celebrities Leslie Ash and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to recognise the plight of the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who have suffered from MRSA.
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Published 30/09/2010
30,000 hens to be released from cages by British caterer
Compassion is celebrating after the announcement that one of the UK's largest catering companies, Westbury Street Holdings, is to switch to using solely RSPCA Freedom Food free-range eggs from 4 October 2010.
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Published 24/09/2010
Unstunned Halal and Kosher Meat
Compassion in World Farming is calling on the UK Government to ensure that unstunned Halal and Kosher meat is not distributed to the wider communities and for greater transparency in terms of labelling.
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Published 24/09/2010
Antibiotic-resistant E. coli & salmonella on UK farms
Scientists speaking at a conference yesterday revealed shocking new levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in intensively reared farm animals that have the potential to spread to humans.
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Published 23/09/2010
Taxpayers' money could be used to fund 'mega-dairy'
Compassion in World Farming reveals today that those behind the proposed 'mega-dairy' farm in Lincolnshire have applied for public money and stated that without it, both animal welfare and environmental standards on the farm will be lowered.
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Published 21/09/2010
Beef, Bread and Water lecture
Over 400 people crowded into Savoy Place in London on Monday 20 September 2010 to hear global farming and food experts debate key issues surrounding farming, the environment, water scarcity, food security and animal welfare.
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Published 17/09/2010
Could cloned food be in our shops in two years?
In the Daily Mail article, 'Clone food in all our shops within 2 years' (Daily Mail, 16th September) the Food Standards Agency said that because of the difficulty in tracing cloned animals, it is impossible to halt the spread of cloning.
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Published 13/09/2010
"Big agriculture is the only option..."
Jay Rayner's article in the Observer, "Big agriculture is the only option to stop the world going hungry", reports that the dairy farmers the author has spoken to do not see animal welfare as an issue in the kind of "super-dairy" proposed at…
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Published 08/09/2010
Compassion praises Monbiot
George Monbiot's article in The Guardian on modern farming systems should be applauded for two key reasons.
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Published 07/09/2010
FAWC undermine own 'five freedoms' for dairy cows
Compassion in World Farming strongly disagrees with the recent assertion by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) suggesting that dairy cows housed all year round with little or no access to grazing or kept in large herds can have satisfactory…
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