#Act4 FarmAnimals Animal activists have slammed an English primary school after they revealed they were to slaughter pet pigs to teach children about the food chain. Leeds primary school to slaughter pet pigs to teach children where meat comes from 1 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Our appeal: urgently prohibit the transport of live animals over long distances and the export to third countries. Investigation reveals terrible suffering of cattle being exported to Middle East for slaughter 24 April 2019 LAV
#Act4 FarmAnimals The report describes the outcome of an audit carried out by Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety in Poland from 4 to 8 February 2019. Following "serious shortcomings" reported in Polish slaughterhouses, compulsory CCTV is being considered 12 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals As a result, it would make it easier for the industrial concentration of slaughtering and, by extension, the over-rationalization of major slaughterhouses. Article: The implementation of an animal protection regulation on the structuring of French slaughterhouses 2 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Improving animal welfare is the primary objective of this mobile slaughterhouse project led by Bio Normandie, "it is an increasingly strong demand from consumers and breeders" explains Christophe Dupeyré, project manager in the association. A mobile slaughterhouse project in France for pigs, sheep and goats 21 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Some 67,154 badgers have been killed in the since the scheme began in 2013. Tens of thousands more badgers face slaughter as UK areas ask for licences to kill 17 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Organic production logo of the European Union cannot be placed on meat derived from animals that have been slaughtered in accordance with religious rites without first being stunned. ECJ rules that the organic production logo cannot be placed on ritually slaughtered meat 26 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Cull sows may be more vulnerable to transportation compared to other swine categories, as they are typically culled after several production cycles, and hence may be injured or weak. New Danish study finds cull sows suffer during transport to slaughter due to conditions en route 18 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Figures have revealed more than 94 million cattle, sheep and poultry were slaughtered in England and Wales in 2018 without being stunned first. Slaughterhouse survey: 94m cattle, sheep and poultry slaughtered without stunning in the UK 15 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The IKEA Food Better Programmes frame IKEA Food’s global vision for sustainable agriculture. IKEA commits to higher welfare standards for chickens worldwide 11 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Undercover footage that appears to show extremely sick cows being smuggled into a Polish slaughterhouse and sold on with little or no veterinary inspection has raised alarm about standards in one of the EU’s largest meat exporters. Secret filming shows sick cows slaughtered for meat in Poland 27 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Commission will send a team of inspectors to Poland on Monday after a TV report showed sick cows being butchered for food in a Polish slaughterhouse. EC inspectors to investigate Polish slaughterhouse in wake of TV report showing sick cows being slaughtered for food 23 January 2019