A pledge outlining 25 actions to help reduce the need for antibiotics in animals has been proposed by a body representing Europe’s leading manufacturers of animal medicines.
Pork processor Danish Crown has revealed the extent of the losses suffered by its Tulip Limited business in the final year before it was sold to Pilgrim’s Pride.
The Spanish pork trade body Interporc received a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture of China, headed by its vice minister, to advance relations between the two countries.
Tulip Ltd’s planned 270 job cuts as it faces the closure of its Bodmin plant in Cornwall represent ‘another shock wave to the already battered Cornish economy’, according to trade union Unite.
The UK’s place in the international meat community will be the focus of the upcoming Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Global Britain conference.
Tulip Ltd will operate as a business unit within the Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, the company announced as it confirmed its acquisition of the UK meat processor from Danish Crown.
Plans by the UK’s Conservative Party to introduce a ban on live exports of farm animals and suggestions that they should be slaughtered at the closest abattoir have been heavily criticised.
There is a lack of robust evidence to confirm link between meat eating as part of a healthy diet and the development of Western diseases, according to a paper that contends there are a wide range of benefits delivered by meat that are not always easily...
Meat processing business Tönnies Holding and the Dekon Group are launching a joint venture for a slaughter and butchering centre in the Sichuan region of China.
A vegan meatball alternative is undergoing product development at Ikea Food, which managing director Michael La Cour says will help get the company’s menu to 20% plant-based by 2022.
The UK pig industry has called for more action to prevent African Swine Fever (ASF) entering the country, following an admission by government that it expects an outbreak within the next 12 months.
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has urged the government to place an immediate band on any pork imports from countries affected by African Swine Fever (ASF) in the commercial herd.
Meat production in the UK makes the best use of the country’s agricultural land and greatly aids biodiversity and countryside management, according to British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) chief executive Nick Allen.
Construction on a new cooling tunnel at Danish Crown’s Rønne slaughterhouse has been postponed following the discovery of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age mound.
