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Published 28/10/2009News
Published 28/10/2009
ATTEMPTS TO TAKE LIVE EXPORTS ON PASSENGER FERRIES
Commercial and passenger ferries continue to forge live animal export links to the continent from the UK.
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Published 27/10/2009
Climate change expert: eat less meat to save the planet
Compassion in World Farming welcomes Lord Stern's call for a reduction in global meat consumption. On 27 October Lord Stern, told The Times that 'Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases...'
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Published 21/10/2009
Government allows factory farmed food in the public sector
New draft standards for the Government's Healthier Food Mark misleadingly claim to promote 'high standards of animal welfare' for public catering while in fact allowing public sector bodies to use battery eggs and factory farmed pork and…
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Published 14/10/2009
Killing Fields: the battle to feed factory farms
A new investigation by the Ecologist and a coalition of pressure groups exposes the dark side of soy production for animal feed: deforestation, loss of biodiversity, depletion of natural resources and destruction of local communities.
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Published 09/10/2009
Animal welfare council undermines beak trimming ban
The Government's own advisory body on animal welfare has undermined a ban on hen beak trimming.
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Published 08/10/2009
HIGHER WELFARE IS HEALTHIER CHICKEN
Following this week's Food Standards Agency (FSA) findings that two thirds of uncooked chicken on sale in supermarkets and butchers were infected with the food bug Campylobacter, public concern is understandable.
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Published 06/10/2009
POLISH INVESTIGATION REVEALS CRUELTY AT DAIRY FARM
Otoz Animal is a leading Polish animal welfare organisation. Together with Straż dla Zwierząt they visited a dairy farm in Janowice in Northern Poland and discovered cows that were underfed, exhausted, and suffered from poor welfare conditions.
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Published 01/10/2009
RSPCA increases outdoor stocking for laying hens
In a bid to meet the rising demand for British free-range eggs, RSPCA Freedom Food has announced an increase in the maximum outdoor stocking density of free-range laying hens.
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Published 01/10/2009
Government ignore animal welfare in future of farming vision
Defra is in the process of developing a vision and strategic objectives for the future of our food system. This is clearly a crucial piece of work which is likely to shape government food policy for years to come.
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Published 25/09/2009
Joint venture to lobby for better animal welfare
Compassion in World Farming has joined forces with other leading animal groups to maximise the pressure on MPs and MEPs across the parties in the UK and the EU.
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