Overview of This Week’s Pig Industry News
ANALYSIS – At a meeting held at the University of Nottingham in the UK last week, Professor Mike Gibney helped sort fact from the fiction in terms of the growing problem of human obesity, writes Jackie Linden. In Australia, a new QA scheme has been introduced so consumers can be sure they are buying meat from free-range pigs if that is their preference, while in the US, welfare organisations are pressuring the United Nations, Burger King and Seaboard Foods, in different ways, towards more animal-friendly production methods.
30 April 2012
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