by Liz Tyson as published on One Green Planet “Many of our donkeys have been rescued from miserable live animal markets…” Hamish, Clover, and Darcy were tiny babies, not yet weaned, when they were taken from their mothers and sent to be sold illegally at a market in the […]
as published on FG/Insight “The National Pig Association (NPA) has countered accusations that the UK pig industry is involved in cruelty to horses on farms in South America…” Activists from the German Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) said horses on farms in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile are forced to […]
Source: U.S. Reuters story by James Davey “Everything that touches predatory horse slaughter is rooted in crime and corruption!” LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) – The contamination of meat products with horse DNA was most likely due to fraud and prosecutions should be pursued, a second British parliamentary report […]
Source: Daisy Wyatt of the UK’s Independent “Shockingly, an Indian lamb curry was found to contain no trace of lamb – and the meat it contained was neither chicken, beef, pork, horse or goat.” If you thought the British high street had cleaned up its act when it […]
Felicity Lawrence and agencies The Guardian, Thursday 24 January 2013 12.35 GMT MP says she has evidence several horses slaughtered in UK last year tested positive for ‘bute’ or phenylbutazone A potentially carcinogenic drug may have entered the human food chain through meat from horses slaughtered in the […]
By Keith Gladdis and Claire Ellicott of MailOnline Of the 13 samples of burger analyzed, nine tested positive for horse DNA The Dutch meat supplier believed to be responsible for contaminating British burgers with horse meat was still operating last night despite being under investigation. New DNA tests […]
By Sean Poulter, Keith Gladdis and Suzannah Hills of MailOnline More than ten million burgers removed from sale Premier Inn has become the latest company to remove thousands of beef burgers from its restaurants over fears they may be contaminated with horse meat as its supplier suspends operations. […]
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