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This is just battery farming for cows
Sir, So now we have a concentration camp for cows ('Super-Size My Farm', The Dairymen, 11 September). For many years a battle was fought to stop battery cages for chicken. Always we were told the hen was perfectly happy, otherwise it...
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NewsMatthews turkey gets chippy-style batters
Bernard Matthews is taking on one of the nation's favourite meals the fish and chip supper with a new range of turkey fillets with flavoured batter. Aimed at families with teenagers or young adults, there are four lines in the Taste of...
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NewsCall for duck eggs to get Lion-style mark
The UK's largest producer of duck eggs, Watercress Lane, believes a British Lion-style mark would restore consumer confidence in duck eggs after the recent salmonella outbreak. Although the Food Standards Agency sets out general handling...
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Comment & OpinionWho feels like Chicken Tonight?
The received wisdom is that adverts should above all be memorable, by hook or by crook.
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Comment & OpinionRaising the rhubarb
To frustrated residents of Bray, home of the Fat Duck, the ‘Heston effect’ refers to the expansionist tendencies of the Berkshire town’s most famous son.
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Wheat costs threaten to push up price of poultry
Shoppers face rising chicken and egg prices as a result of soaring wheat costs. Sixty per cent of the cost of producing poultry and eggs is feed, and the November futures price for wheat which makes up 60% of that feed has risen £50 per...
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Study probes need for a higher-welfare label
A new label for 'higher-welfare' chicken could be on the cards after a poultry industry group commissioned research into whether a new term needs to be created for broilers that fall in between baseline industry standards and organic or...
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Ginsters Balti chicken spices up pasty range
Ginsters is replacing its Ham, Leek & Cheese Cornish pasty with a Chicken Balti variant, and is pledging to keep the nation's love of spicy food in mind for future launches. The Chicken Balti Pasty (rsp: £1.99), which hits shelves...
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Kershaws launches veggie ready meals
Kershaws Quality Foods is launching its first range of frozen vegetarian ready meals this autumn under a cheeky twist on the 'I can't believe it's not butter!' banner. The chicken-style soya kievs, vegetarian bangers & mash and nut...
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Bernard Matthews hires Ballantyne as agricultural director
Poultry giant Bernard Matthews has named Andrew Ballantyne as its new agricultural director.Ballantyne joins the Norfolk-based company from his role as general manager of UK agriculture for Moy Park, Northern Ireland's largest food...
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Heinz low-salt soups for health-conscious
Heinz has launched reduced salt versions of its Classic canned soups to meet a growing demand for lower-salt products. The four-strong Heinz Classic Reduced Salt range consists of Cream of Tomato, Cream of Chicken, Cream of Mushroom and…
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Birds Eye unveils chicken Bake to Perfection lines
Birds Eye is aiming to build on the success of its Bake to Perfection Fish range by expanding the concept into chicken. The four-strong range includes Garlic & Herb, Chasseur, Tomato & Basil and Red Wine & Mushroom variants,...
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NewsHeston brings his Fat Duck recipes to Waitrose
Heston Blumenthal and Waitrose have added a new dimension to their partnership with food designed by the Fat Duck chef set to go on sale at the supermarket later this year.
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Birds Eye trio offer chicken snack meals
Birds Eye has introduced a trio of new products to the freezer aisle.
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Moy Park enters turkey by gobbling up O’Kane
Moy Park is to move into turkey for the first time following its acquisition of fellow Northern Irish supplier O'Kane Poultry. The purchase this week, for an undisclosed sum, will result in Moy Park acquiring O'Kane's Ballymena site,...
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Moy Park acquires O’Kane Poultry
Moy Park is to move into turkey for the first time following its acquisition of fellow Northern Irish supplier O’Kane Poultry.
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Shoppers pick indoor birds over free-range
Sales of free-range chicken are falling as shoppers opt for high-welfare indoor-reared birds. While overall sales of fresh chicken have grown 4.5% by volume to 404,097 tonnes over the past year, those of fresh free-range have fallen 5.7%...
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Adlington takes its posh low-fat poultry products to the mults
Poultry supplier Adlington hopes to increase turnover by at least 20% to over £3m on the back of product launches and a move into the multiple retail sector.The Warwickshire cooked meat producer will launch a low-fat turkey bacon line...
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Makro unveils revamped Aro own-label lines
The relaunch of Makro own-label range Aro has kicked off with 25 products aimed at hotel, restaurant and catering customers.Makro claims the range which includes cheese, ham, frozen veg and chicken can match, and in many cases beat,...
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My Alternative CV: Richard Arthurs, General Mills UK
Richard Arthurs, finance director of General Mills UK, on Peking Duck, James Bond and eagles