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Published 29/11/2012News
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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Published 22/11/2012
Dishing the dirt on factory farming
We’re dishing the dirt on factory farming this week, looking at how it leads to pollution problems across the planet.
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Published 22/11/2012
New EU Commissioner appointed
The EU has appointed Tonio Borg as the new Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, a brief which includes farm animal welfare.
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Published 15/11/2012
Making it possible to fight factory farming
It turns out that pigs can fly (and sing!), according to Make it Possible – a new campaign providing a different perspective on the fight against factory farming. We take a look.
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Published 15/11/2012
The "Sustainable" Intensification debate continues
The BBC Radio programme "Farming Today" (14th November) broadcast an interview with Professor Charles Godfray, a leading academic who chairs the UK government's Foresight project.
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Published 13/11/2012
Agroecology – what is it and why does it matter?
We talk a lot about the problems of factory farming: about how it threatens us and the planet, as well as farm animals. But it’s also important to look at the alternatives to factory farming. Here’s one possible solution.
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