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Published 18/02/2010News
Published 18/02/2010
Dairy factory farm poses giant threat
Britain's biggest factory dairy farm poses a huge threat to animal welfare and small scale producers.
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Published 12/02/2010
Polish government wants battery cage ban postponed
Conventional battery cages, in which millions of egg-laying hens are confined, are due to be banned throughout the European Union (EU) in 2012. This is good news for hens.
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Published 09/02/2010
SHOCK FILM BACKS CALL TO END FACTORY FARMING
The film Food Inc. highlights the many negative impacts of intensive farming including the effects on human health, poor animal welfare, environmental pollution and loss of livelihood for small-scale farmers.
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Published 20/01/2010
Illegal rearing of Europe's pigs
Compassion in World Farming's undercover investigation - together with a report by the European Food Safety Authority - suggests that many of the 250 million pigs reared each year in the European Union are being farmed in illegal conditions.
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Published 18/01/2010
New food, farming & climate change report
Compassion welcomes the 'How low can we go?' report, published by WWF and the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN).
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Published 18/12/2009
Thousands of animals drown as cargo ship sinks
A ship transporting thousands of livestock from Uruguay to Syria has sunk off the Lebanon coast, highlighting this unnecessary and cruel trade.
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Published 17/12/2009
DEFRA acts on chicken welfare
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced new rules on the amount of chickens that can be kept per square metre. Such space allowances are always measured in kilograms of chicken per square metre.
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Published 16/12/2009
COMPASSION & EVENING STANDARD UNCOVER THE VEAL TRUTH
The Connaught Hotel admits confusion over Dutch veal
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Published 14/12/2009
Government report: eat less meat-tackle climate change
With almost a fifth of the world's total manmade greenhouse gas emissions originating from livestock, & factory farming being the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, Compassion has long called for a reduction in meat and dairy…
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Published 11/12/2009
EU labelling should focus on method of production
A new voluntary code of practice for labelling pork products is to be drawn up by Defra over so-called 'British' meat and aims to ensure packaging clearly displays the origin of the meat before processing.
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