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Meat Farming Environmental Damage

December 24th, 2008 * Comments(0)
Farmers sit up and realise they can’t hideaway from the damage their industry causes.
We may seem a plan by late 2009.

NFU links up for meat industry ‘roadmap’

The NFU recently met with meat industry stakeholders to agree on the creation of an Environmental Roadmap for the red meat sector.

As an industry we are increasingly under pressure from organisations which make claims about the adverse environmental impacts of red meat production. The aim of the roadmap it to help us counter these claims.

The British meat industry is determined to play its part in meeting the UK’s carbon targets, as well as address the growing consumer awareness that activities commonly perceived as perfectly natural, such as grazing animals have environmental costs and benefits.

remainder of article at nfuonline

Obama Animals

November 06th, 2008 * Comments(1)

Please find this excellent blog article about Obama (vs McCain…now a defunct issue) and animal Welfare. Yes, animal welfare is a huge galaxy away from animal rights, but expecting a mainstream political party to be talking animal rights is a vein hope so for now it is best to at least garner some glimpses about the welfare issues.

Odd Hot Dog Art

September 04th, 2008 * Comments(0)

A play on the Minor Threat song ‘Guilty of Being White’ Minor Threat art , this guy likes meat enough to want a tattoo of it on his arm. Odd. Very odd.

Yes, it's a hotdog tattoo

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Less Meat More Health

July 03rd, 2008 * Comments(0)
time after time after time after time…we see that eating less meat means an improvement in health and a lessening of the risk of disease. This time those scientists are focusing on the Mediterranean diet to show this.
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists.

The diet, reports the British Journal of Cancer, also includes higher amounts of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and less red meat.

They noticed that people living there generally ate more vegetables and fish, less red meat, cooked in olive oil and drank moderate amounts of alcohol.

But just two changes - eating less red meat, and more peas, beans and lentils, cut the risk of cancer by 12%.

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Contaminated Pig Feed

May 16th, 2008 * Comments(0)

Another day, another story about lead and the food chain.

A feed supplement for pigs which was found to be contaminated by lead has been withdrawn from sale in Australia.

High levels of lead were first found in the supplement imported from China in February.

Testing revealed pigs in six Western Australian piggeries had high levels of the metal in their systems.

Those piggeries have been put into quarantine and will remain so for at least another month.

Another 60 piggeries which also use the same feedstock are being closely monitored to ensure the pigs have not been affected.

Remainder of article at ABC

Bird Flu human to human transmission

April 04th, 2008 * Comments(0)

The first case of human-to-human transmission of avian flu in Pakistan has been confirmed.

Tests carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that bird flu killed some members of a family in north-west Pakistan late last year.

The WHO says steps were taken to prevent future fatalities in the area.

Pakistan’s north-west and southern regions were hit by bird flu last year. Thousands of birds were culled to control the spread of the disease.

Remainder of article at the BBC

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