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Published 24/04/2009News
Published 24/04/2009
HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL CHALLENGES PROPOSED LAW
With a giant postcard signed on behalf of over 150,000 supporters and over 200 MPs, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Compassion called on the Minister responsible for animal welfare to take the welfare of chickens seriously through UK law.
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Published 20/04/2009
New scheme to prevent shooting of male dairy calves unveiled
Compassion in World Farming welcomes Blade Farming's new scheme to prevent the shooting of male calves at birth and to help boost dairy farmer incomes.
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Published 14/04/2009
UK GOVERNMENT TURNS ITS BACK ON CHICKENS
The UK Government is set to lower chicken welfare standards despite soaring sales of higher welfare chicken, major shifts in retailer policies and high-profile chicken campaigning.
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Published 07/04/2009
EU EGG LABELLING LAW UNDER THREAT
The EU Commission may propose scrapping legislation requiring eggs to be labelled according to farming method.
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Published 30/03/2009
Supermarket sticks to welfare despite credit crunch
Compassion in World Farming is pleased to see another retailer sticking to high standards of animal welfare despite the credit crunch.
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Published 29/03/2009
EU Parliament votes "No!" to cloned animals for food
An overwhelming majority of Members of the European Parliament voted against the authorisation of food products from cloned animals and their offspring.
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Published 27/03/2009
Compassion advert prompts re-think by Pig Farmers
Recent adverts run by Compassion in World Farming have prompted an encouraging response from the British pig industry. The farming magazine, 'Pig World' has launched a campaign to discourage the use of teeth clipping amongst British farmers.
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Published 26/03/2009
EU supports universal declaration of animal welfare
The Ministers of Agriculture from the European Union's 27 countries have given their support to a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW).
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Published 23/03/2009
Call on PM to tackle threat of antibiotics resistance
Compassion and the Soil Association have written to Gordon Brown, urging him to recognise the importance of the Chief Medical Officer's report on the problem of antimicrobial resistance being transferred from farm animals to humans.
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Published 20/03/2009
Sick as a pig
A new documentary, commissioned by the Soil Association, in conjunction with Compassion in World Farming, has been released to expose the rise of a new strain of MRSA in pigs and its link to the overuse of antibiotics on intensive farms.
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