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January 20, 2008
January 18, 2008: Supermarkets have reacted to TV programmes about chicken welfare by announcing newrules and regulations to reassure consumers of their commitment to thehighest standards.
January 19, 2008
JANUARY 18, 2008: The double tagging regulations which came into effect this monthfollowing the withdrawal of the UK’s derogation from recent EU sheepand goat identification legislation are less onerous than originallyfeared, according to a English…
January 18, 2008
JANUARY 18, 2008: The foot-and-mouth outbreak last year may have cost Welsh farmers more than £40m, it is claimed.
January 17, 2008
JANUARY 17 2008: A fourth swan at a sanctuary in Dorset has tested positive for thevirulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, environment department Defra has said.
January 17, 2008
JANUARY 17, 2008: With the UK still under the shadow of bird flu, The Organic Research Centre had called for free range poultry in the UK to be vaccinated against the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain.
January 16, 2008
January 16: Defra has today confirmed that another mute swan collected on 11 January as part of wild bird surveillance from the same area has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza.
January 11, 2008
JANUARY 11, 2008: Tests are continuing on birds around Chesil Beach in Dorset as vetstry to contain an outbreak of H5N1, the deadly form of bird flu found in swans.
January 10, 2008
JANUARY 10, 2008: Chickens reared for meat are not ‘battery’ farmed and poultry producers in the UK are fed up of hearing the claim repeated – that was the message from the British Poultry Council…
January 10, 2008
JANUARY, 10 2008: Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has hit back at criticisms that the poultry meat and eggs on sale in its stores are derived from systems which involve animal suffering.
January 10, 2008
January 10: The Soil Association has applauded the campaigning efforts of celebrity chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver to improve the welfare standards of chicken production.
January 9, 2008
January 2008: There are mixed reactions among farmers to Hugh's Chicken Run, the programme being screened nightly on Channel 4, about chicken production systems.
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