Animal Welfare
The UK is conspicuously absent from the list of signatories to a statement published by the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance (IRFBA) that highlights the persecution of the non-religious and calls for their protection. IRFBA is a network of 38 countries committed to advancing freedom of religion or belief around the world with the Prime… Read more »
Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
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The British farming industry is in turmoil again today after Defra announced the most recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease appears to be linked to the Pirbright laboratory in Surrey. Preliminary tests have shown the virus is the same strain as that which led to the slaughter of hundreds of livestock last month. Farmers… Read more »
The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is “negligible”, environment secretary David Miliband has insisted. The slaughter of 159,000 turkeys at the Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk is expected to finish today, and the bodies will be transported to Staffordshire to be destroyed…. Read more »
