Governments and WHO face pressure to ban commercial trade in wild animals, but experts say this would criminalise a way of life for millions of people
The use of antibiotics in animals on US factory farms is increasing despite warnings that the practice risks spreading deadly superbugs.
Research showing that half of the UK’s chickens are now being produced either fully or partly by companies controlled by US agribusinesses has prompted concerns about American influence in the British food sector.
Half of the UK’s chickens are being produced by companies fully or partly controlled by US agribusinesses, according to an analysis of industry data
“We’re at a crossroads and have an opportunity to reinvent British food and farming. We can move towards a thriving countryside where farm animals are restored to the land.”
Philip Lymbery, the chief executive officer of Compassion in World Farming, calls industrial livestock “the cascade of cruelty of intensive animal farming.”
France and Germany are to ban the notoriously cruel culling of male chickens, which animal rights activists hope will be also be adopted in Britain