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01/02/2022Industry News
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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17/01/2022
5 steps to prepare to meet Better Chicken Commitment
As companies get closer to their purchase pledge deadlines, there are steps that should be started now, Compassion in World Farming says
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09/01/2022
Government’s post-Brexit farming plan ‘will increase UK’s reliance on food imports’
As changes wrought by Brexit slash and burn £1.8bn of direct payments to English farmers by 2027, experts warn that government optimism over agriculture in England is dangerously misplaced
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08/01/2022
Tenant farmers could be hit by new rewilding incentives, union warns
National Farmers Union official says it could become ‘attractive’ for landowners ‘to take land back’
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