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Animals Farmed: a leap in salmon deaths, superbug fears and the life of a Spanish shepherdess
Welcome to our final monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web
Tom Ambrose and Tom Levitt
08, Feb, 2023 @10:30 AM

Tesco chicken supplier should pay to clean up River Wye, says charity
Campaigners urge leading poultry producer Avara Foods to fund reparations for pollution from its chicken farm suppliers
Nicola Cutcher and Tom Levitt
03, Feb, 2023 @7:45 AM

‘The government doesn’t care’: UK pig farmers voice alarm over shrinking sector
A new Danish bacon factory in Rochdale marks the decline in Britain’s pork industry as big retailers look to cheaper imports
Tom Levitt
16, Jan, 2023 @6:30 AM

Animals Farmed: salmon farm disease, chicken tariffs in Africa and the return of China’s wildlife farms
Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web
Tom Ambrose and Tom Levitt
11, Jan, 2023 @10:00 AM

Animals Farmed: China’s pig skyscraper, lab-grown meat and egg shortages
Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web
Tom Ambrose and Tom Levitt
08, Dec, 2022 @3:01 PM

Ghost farms: the mink sheds abandoned to the pandemic
More than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark were ordered to close over fears a Covid mutation was a risk to human health. Two years on, most will never reopen
Tom Levitt
14, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘The birds are all back inside’: could this be the end for free-range eggs in the UK?
Bird flu is becoming a year-round threat, and with the biggest free-range flock in Europe, UK poultry farmers are being forced to consider their future
Tom Levitt
21, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM

Poultry farmers call for birds to be kept inside to combat bird flu
Chicken and egg producers call for housing order for poultry and captive birds to be extended across UK
Tom Levitt
12, Oct, 2022 @1:16 PM

Fears of Christmas goose shortages as UK’s biggest producer hit by bird flu
UK’s only large-scale supplier is understood to have suffered multiple outbreaks over the past week
Tom Levitt
08, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM

‘Unprecedented’ bird flu epidemic sees almost 50m birds culled across Europe
Poultry farmers from Arctic to Portugal reported 2,500 outbreaks in past year, with migrating birds taking avian flu to North America
Tom Levitt
03, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

Revealed: world’s biggest meat firm appears to have avoided millions in UK tax
Exclusive: major supplier to brands including KFC and Nando’s used offshore companies allowing them to reduce UK tax payments, investigation suggests
Tom Levitt, Margot Gibbs and Ludo Hekman
26, Sep, 2022 @1:44 PM

‘Free-range eggs’ in EU could be from birds housed all their lives indoors
Eggs from chickens kept indoors due to bird flu outbreaks could still be labelled free range, raising concerns among UK producers
Tom Levitt
08, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
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