Poultry
A plan for the land
England’s first ever land use framework aims to maintain domestic food production while freeing land for nature, development and energy. Can it carry off such a delicate balancing act?
Intensive chicken production risks breaking welfare laws
Animal welfare campaigners have warned chicken farmers they could be breaking the law by rearing fast-growing breeds. The Humane League UK (THL UK) has sent letters to 1,600 chicken farmers across the UK along with the four largest poultry producers…
New food scandal on horizon as FSA highlights prevalence of chicken bug
THE FOOD STANDARDS Agency (FSA) today released cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens. The bacteria, the cause of thousands of…
Food fight: Is there enough GM-free soya for Britain’s poultry farmers
THE AVAILABILITY of GM-free feed for poultry has been shrouded in mystery and contradictory information. Recently, four supermarkets ditched policies that had been in place for over a decade requiring suppliers to feed poultry 100% GM-free soya. Will foodservice companies now…
Provenance prevails
THE MAIN priority for consumers when buying meat or poultry is provenance not price. More than half of consumers (59%) prefer to buy UK-sourced meat and poultry compared to imported meat. Meanwhile, price is the main consideration for…
