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21/02/2022Industry News
21/02/2022
Entries open for Sustainable Food and Farming Awards
ANIMAL WELFARE lobby group Compassion in World Farming is now inviting entries to its 2022 Sustainable Food and Farming Awards.
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16/02/2022
Compassion in World Farming invites entries to its 2022 Sustainable Food and Farming Awards
Compassion in World Farming is inviting entries to its 2022 Sustainable Food and Farming Awards established to recognise producers and businesses that are taking steps to produce higher welfare meat, dairy and eggs in ways that protect…
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02/02/2022
Many European farmers still give their animals too many antibiotics
Despite the bloc’s strict rules, drugs often compensate for poor welfare
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01/02/2022
Pig sector calls for urgent government summit as backlog tops 170,000
As many as 170,000 pigs are still backlogged on farms as a result of the ongoing labour crisis crippling the sector, while the government’s support package is “not working”, the National Pig Association and NFU have warned.
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25/01/2022
We're eating the planet to death' - Can 'lab-grown' cultivated meat help save the world?
Around a third of consumers are willing to try cultivated meat, according to research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
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24/01/2022
Forget being vegan, go planet-friendly 'regen' (and you can still eat meat)
Keen to eat food that’s kind to the planet, but don’t want to forgo steak? Regenerative eating prioritises nurturing the soil
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24/01/2022
The big idea: should animals have the same rights as humans?
The government has finally caught up with what most animal behavioural scientists have been saying for years by formally recognising animals as sentient beings in its animal welfare (sentience) bill.
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21/01/2022
How will Defra’s alternative to CAP subsidies work?
George Eustice says three new initiatives will help boost biodiversity. But how will it affect food production and farmers’ bottom lines?
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21/01/2022
Greens v ‘beefatarians’: Europeans go to war over their dinner
With meat consumption twice the global average, citizens of EU27 have to reconcile environmental concerns and culinary traditions
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21/01/2022
European Parliament calls for better animal protection during transport
The recommendations, which the parliament’s plenary adopted during its session on Thursday (20 January), call on the European Commission to make the EU’s animal transport rules more ambitious and bring them in line with the most recent…
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