Category: Newsletter
Cruel Farmers or a Cruel System?
The horror story experienced by US pig farmers who, between May and September, will have cruelly euthanized 10 million pigs,… Read More
China Outsourcing Toxic Pig Factories Onto Argentinians
In China and Argentina, trade officials are planning to turn Argentina into a pork powerhouse to replace some of China’s… Read More
Eat Out [But Avoid Chains] to Help Out [Local Enterprises]
The National Food Strategy, Part 1 has just been released by the Government and is a welcome insight to many… Read More
UK vs US Food Standards
This week, many in the Lords backed Amendment 271 in yet another attempt to enshrine UK agriculture import standards into… Read More
Tory MPs Vote Against Their Own Access to Secret US Trade Talks
In the House of Commons debate on Monday 20th of July, the Tory majority marched on with their free-trade agenda… Read More
New Trade and Agriculture Commission is ‘a Trojan Horse’ That Will Not Protect UK Farmers
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, has promised that the Trade and Agriculture Commission will protect UK farmers from imports of… Read More
New UN Report Primes Factory Farming as a Major Cause of Zoonotic Diseases
A UN report published 6 July 2020, shines a light on factory pig farming as a crucible for the mutation… Read More
Factory Pig Farms Create New Strain of Swine Flu, Scientists Warn
A new strain of the swine flu virus, H1N1 G4, has been detected both in pigs and humans in China…. Read More
COVID-19 Outbreaks Close Packing Plants Across The UK
A meat processing site owned by Asda in West Yorkshire became the third food plant in 48 hours to have… Read More
Will Politicians Betray our Farmers?
On Wednesday 10 June, the House of Lords debated the second reading of the Agriculture Bill. Here are the transcripts… Read More
Stop America’s Farming Failures Reaching Our Shores
This week saw a whistleblower expose a shocking example of how American factory farmers are euthanising thousands of their pigs… Read More
MPs Trade Away Our Values
Last week we reported the devastating news that, despite the pleas of many cross-party MPs, a Tory majority rejected amendments… Read More