Globally over 60 billion animals are farmed for food every year. The 2006 Report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, predicted that global meat consumption will more than double by 2050 (from 2001).
… Chickens, Globalisation and the Forest King Joyce D'Silva | 19th August 2008 News Chickens Farming Poultry Industry Meat Animal … Food Security Food And Farming Society Chickens_Main_1.jpg Globally over 60 billion …
Fast food chains ignore chicken welfare to fuel profits, new report finds.
… international ranking on the welfare of chickens raised for meat. Burger King, … the ranking as part of its Change for Chickens campaign, which is challenging the … via policies (how important the welfare of chickens is to the company); ambition, via …
Fast-food customers are unwittingly buying meat from low-welfare chickens.
… are unwittingly buying meat from low-welfare chickens. Customers of the biggest fast-food … Burger King are unwittingly buying meat from chickens that grow so fast they suffer … and ranks them on the welfare standards of chickens raised for meat. In the UK World …
The Compassion in World Farming Good Chicken Award is being embraced by more multinational companies operating in more nations then ever before. But IKEA has just withdrawn from the programme in seven countries. JACK ALEXANDER reports on how IKEA's apparent lack of progress is completely at odds with the growing movement for higher welfare chicken production
… its commitment to gold standard welfare for chickens Jack Alexander | 30th November 2017 News Ikea Chicken Animal Welfare Battery Chickens Rooster The Compassion in World … improvements" to the lives of broiler chickens. This includes tackling the …
McDonald's now claims to be a champion of animal welfare. But the food chain continues to rely on super fast growing chickens - which even in the best cases live miserable lives. PRU ELLIOTT calls for a change of policy from the multinational
… 2018 Comment Animal Welfare Fast Food Chickens Change Makers … chain continues to rely on super fast growing chickens - which even in the best cases live … have a positive impact on society. Supersized chickens In a recent post on the business …
British egg consumption reveals cracks in our ethics that could come back to haunt us.
… Gildea | 28th March 2022 | News Battery Chickens Meat Eggs Pandemics Bird Flu Animal … to lock every single chicken inside. With no chickens free to roam, Britain’s moral … really falls off a cliff when it comes to chickens themselves. Just 3.5 percent of …
Shoppers in the UK absolutely don't want US products with lower health and animal welfare standards, even if they are labelled.
Brits reject US chlorinated chicken Tom Pilgrim | 25th June 2020 News International Trade Brexit Food And Farming Animal Welfare trumpditprotest1-web_0.jpg Shoppers in the UK absolutely don't want US …
Investigation uncovers 'horrendous abuse' at an RSPCA-Assured 'free range', 'high welfare' chicken farm.
… Brooker | 2nd July 2019 News Free Range Chickens Animal Welfare Animal Cruelty RSPCA … so-called 'slow growing' meat or 'broiler' chickens, which are often touted by NGOs as … "These h arrowing scenes show free-range chickens at Trees Farm being subjected to …
All 193 UN states will sign a declaration today to fight the spread of drug-resistant 'superbugs', writes Alastair Kenneil. The problem is often blamed on over­prescription of antibiotics by doctors. But that's to ignore the massive use of antibiotics on animals in factory farms, both to prevent infection and to assist weight gain - turning farms into superbug breeding centres.
To stop antibiotic resistant superbugs, keep off factory farmed meat! Alastair Kenneil | 21st September 2016 Comment Health Farming Animal Welfare UK Un piglets behind bars-cut.jpg All 193 UN states …
There's much to love in Celia Lewis’ beautifully illustrated tome, says Mark Newton, but the essential message shouldn’t be forgotten: that this is how all pigs should be treated
… even with a small garden – and housing a few chickens is perhaps the next step. Acquiring … keeping REVIEW Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens: The Way of Hen Don’t let the new-age … Clea Danaan’s Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens is a witty, original take on the art …
Tories fail to ban hen cages as new investigation reveals cruelty at farm supplying eggs to Lidl supermarket.
Hens' suffering at megafarm exposed Brendan Montague | 24th August 2023 | News Animal Welfare Animal Justice Project Lidl European Union UK Government Food And Farming Editor’s Picks …
Labour demands animal welfare and environmental protections be enshrined in new Agriculture Bill.
Animal welfare and environmental protections Brendan Montague | 4th February 2020 News Animal Welfare Environmental Protections Agriculture Bill Labour Party Change Makers …
Ethical Foodie chef TIM MADDAMS puts the blame for the animal welfare abuses we reported recently at the door of consumers who are turning a blind eye to the true cost of cheap meat
The Ethical Foodie: We should 'meat' less often... Tim Maddams | 4th October 2016 Comment Animal Welfare Meat Food And Farming Supermarkets Consumer Choice ethical foodie.jpg Ethical Foodie chef TIM …
These are just some of the reasons to stop eating animals. Yes, it’s Veganuary once again.
… animals are raised for our consumption. From chickens living in overcrowded cages or bans, … certified free-range egg producers cramming chickens into overcrowded barns for much of …
Want to know how and where your favourite meat is produced? Ruth Styles asked four industry experts to give their verdict on the realities of animal welfare in the UK today
Want to know where your meat really comes from? Ruth Styles | 12th July 2011 Ethical Living Meat Animal Welfare Food And Drink Farming Shopping Food And Farming holding.jpg Want to know how and where …
Festive cheer is in full swing, but it’s time we seriously questioned the events that take place to allow for this holiday of overindulgence.
… across the UK. In 2018, over a billion chickens were slaughtered in the UK. … need. Through unnatural breeding processes, chickens grow around 50 times faster than what …
Are you living the dream? Or walking zombie-like through the nightmare of modern consumerism? Laura Sevier explores the sanity of downshifting
… for the country, perhaps to tend pigs and chickens and aim for greater self sufficiency. … treadmill) to first gear (smallholding with chickens) all at once. ‘You just have to find …
Deregulating trade while curbing immigration would lead to a sharp decline in animal welfare.
Brexit and the future of animal welfare Olivia Bridge | 28th November 2018 News Brexit Animal Rights Animal Welfare Thought Leaders animals_barn_calf_cows_farm_tagged-1036340.jpgd_.jpg Deregulating …
With the worst summer on record decimating his potatoes, onions and other allotment crops, Paul Kingsnorth turns to nature’s abundance in foraged food
Nature's free for all Paul Kingsnorth | 8th April 2009 Ethical Living Foraging For Food Hedgerows Blackberries Mushrooms Wild Food Free Food Allotments Growing Food Allotments Green Lifestyle Food …
Today, 80 percent of current animal welfare legislation comes from EU law. But animal charities are concerned that post-Brexit new trade agreements could be made with countries with lower standards. The RSPCA is calling for the government to use Brexit as an opportunity to incentivise famers to increase their levels of animal welfare. CATHERINE HARTE reports
… hens can be kept in cramped cages, meat chickens without any natural light, a …
South Korea has banned dog meat, but is pig meat any different?
… to maximise profits. We breed “Franken-chickens” to grow unnaturally fast until their … tens of millions of pigs and billions of chickens annually in the UK alone. Package …