#Act4 FarmAnimals For ethical and financial reasons, fetal serum has been banned from start-ups active in cultivated meat for the benefit of vitamins and amino acids. Mark Post on clean meat: "More research is needed on serum-free alternatives" 6 February 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Heat waves aren’t just a people problem. When food, water, shade, and safe transport are scarce, farm animals are often the first ones to suffer. Cooked alive: Transport animals face deadliest temperatures Yet 23 December 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Gene-editing is seen by many as the ultimate in precision breeding. Polled cattle, whose horns have been genetically removed, have been presented as exemplars of this–a socially beneficial use of precise genome engineering. FDA finds unexpected antibiotic resistance genes in ‘gene-edited’ dehorned cattle 12 August 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals While calf exports in 2019 got off to a somewhat ‘shaky’ start, the number of dairy calves exported live out of the country is running just under 29,000 head (34%) above 2018 levels. 34%+ more dairy calves exported from Ireland than in 2018, despite tremendous suffering 19 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals At over 1200 farms in our country there is extremely high mortality among calves. Poor care for calves: Mortality on 1,200 farms in the Netherlands is alarmingly high 1 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Minister for Agriculture has described an IFA demand on live exports as 'reckless' for the industry. Irish Minister for Agriculture slams Irish Farmers’ Association’s calf export demand as 'reckless' and risks bringing down entire industry 19 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The plight of a calf born on Christmas Day and sent on a journey of more than 100 hours for slaughter overseas has prompted renewed calls for a ban on live exports. Calf’s gruelling 100-hour trip to Spanish abattoir shows that European solutions to stop the suffering of animals transported alive remain more pressing than ever 19 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Electron arcosis has been mandatory for the slaughter of sheep, goats and poultry since the beginning of this year. Flanders to make electrical stunning before slaughter compulsory for calves from 2020 3 January 2019
