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 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 …
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 …
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what?
… Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter … (FSA), revealed that organic free-range chickens are twice as likely to carry the … Krebs' views on organic food as ‘extreme’. Chickens are much smarter than you think …
Christmas dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. But the intensively reared and genetically manipulated birds that most will consume this holiday season leave a nasty taste in the mouth
… at Christmas . Factory farming: it ain't just chickens While most of us have got our heads … the problems related to factory broiler chickens, the problems of factory turkeys are … many of the same welfare problems as broiler chickens. The basic issues most of us can …
The nature of Britain's trade deals with the United States after Brexit raises serious concerns about the quality of food on supermarket shelves - and the influence of vested interests in the meat industry, reports LAWRENCE CARTER of EnergyDesk, Greenpeace.
Trump’s top trade nominees lobbied for hormone-meat exports Lawrence Carter EnergyDesk | 31st July 2017 News Trump Meat Regulation Chicken Beef European Union Trade cattle_(1).jpg The nature of …
We can eat a diet including macaroni cheese, chicken curry and fish and chips that is good for people and the planet argues WWF campaigner Duncan Williamson
… huge plantations of the crop, to feed cattle, chickens and pigs. The effects are perhaps at …
At a debate organised by the Food Ethics Council the jury favoured a tax on ultra-processed foods over a tax on meat.
… they were before the industrial revolution. Chickens do not produce methane and pigs … pork and chicken with beef and lamb. Chickens produce no methane and convert grain …
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 …
Animal welfare charity Viva! calls for the end of factory farming and the permanent closure of meat processing plants in response to the disease outbreak.
Calls for closure of meat processing plants Brendan Montague | 29th June 2020 News Covid Food And Farming Meat Meat Processing Vegetarianism And Veganism …
From the Atkins to the Dukan, protein-based diets are big news in the celebrity world. But what effect is our love affair with meat, fish and cheese having on the environment?
Starved to death: are high protein diets killing the planet? Hannah Corr | 22nd November 2011 Ethical Living Diets Dukan Atkins Meat Fish Pippa Middleton Food And Drink Food And Farming holding.jpg …
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 …
Lab-grown meat could help reduce the environmental footprint of intensive farming. But will it ever appeal to vegetarians or even more eco-conscious consumers? Tom Levitt reports
Would you eat lab-grown meat? Tom Levitt | 3rd October 2012 News Vegetarian Farming Food Meat meat.jpg Lab-grown meat could help reduce the environmental footprint of intensive farming. But will it …
New manufacturing technologies could revolutionise our food system, dramatically reducing it's environmental footprint.
Food without farming? Tim Thorpe | 24th January 2020 Comment Food And Farming Technology Science And Technology Land Use Climate Change Grazing Animal Farming Deforestation Sustainability Agriculture …
The development of meat-like foods is introducing GM and novel technology into our diets. This presents new risks to our health, but also to the complex development of behaviour to prevent environmental destruction, argues PAT THOMAS
… most part the eggless eggs, the chickenless chickens, the milkless milks are still at …
UK's new trade and agriculture commission must address the dangers and inequalities rife in meat farming and processing.
Have we reached 'peak meat'? Natalie Bennett | 31st July 2020 News Meat Covid Agriculture Livestock Food And Farming Editor’s Picks Factory farmed pig UK's new trade and agriculture commission must …
Politicians of the future may need to start taxing and controlling the consumption and production of grain-fed chicken and pork, says government funded report
Scientists warn of future restrictions on factory-farmed pig and poultry Tom Levitt | 24th January 2011 News Food And Farming Meat Factory-farming egypt-image1.jpg Meat consumption may have to be …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods
… Barefoot children collect strips of it; chickens nest in it; babies play in it – even …
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.
… Barefoot children collect strips of it; chickens nest in it; babies play in it – even …
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 …
Soil Association policy director Peter Melchett takes issue with The Land editor Simon Fairlie's characterisation of its policy towards organic yields and meat consumption
Letter: We're upfront about organic farming's yields in the UK Peter Melchett | 22nd April 2010 Comment Food And Farming Organic Meat muckspreading.jpg Soil Association policy director Peter Melchett …