09 April 2010
AMI releases Animal Care & Handling Guidelines
The American Meat Institute (AMI) Foundation’s 2010 Animal Care & Handling Guidelines and Audit Guide: A Systematic Approach to Animal Welfare, has been released.
Authored by Colorado State University Professor...
09 April 2010
Cargill to adopt video auditing at turkey plants
Cargill Meat Solutions plans to install video cameras and software components to facilitate remote video auditing technology at 4 of the company’s turkey operations later this year.
In a March...
09 April 2010
UK consumers vote for higher welfare chicken and eggs
British consumers voted with their shopping trolleys and bought more higher welfare chicken and eggs this year despite the fear that the recession would hit sales of higher welfare products....
30 March 2010
THE SHAME OF AUSTRALIA'S LIVE EXPORT DEATHS
More than 250 cattle have died during a sea journey of over two weeks from Australia to Egypt. They were among the 16,460 cattle onboard an animal transport ship named...
30 March 2010
UN body to look at meat and climate link
UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link.
