Animal welfare - Wicked Leeks

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Features

Know your chickens: what the standards really stand for

Red tractor, freedom food, RSPCA-assured? Who to trust for a better bird.

Animal welfare Farming

News

Intensive farming, superbugs + antimicrobial resistance

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming Health

Features

1.1 billion chickens: profit, poo and the pollution of our rivers

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Ethical business

News

Rich countries should eat less meat

Wealthy countries including the UK and US are among the top over-consumers of meat and other animal products and have most work to do in transforming their national diets.

Climate change Biodiversity Animal welfare Meat

Opinion

Jungle fowl and the joy of hens

I am glad that, away from the factory farm, there are many absolutely stunning and real breeds that we can keep in garden and smallholding settings, writes Arthur Parkinson in an excerpt from his new book.

News

Animal welfare win in funding for small abattoirs

Less intensive farming systems rearing slow-grown or heritage breed animals should benefit from new funding to help reverse the closures of small abattoirs.

Features

Lab-grown and cultured: Is this the future of meat?

Produced in a laboratory using animal cells, cultured meat is just one of the meat ‘alternatives’ vying for our attention. David Burrows finds out more.