All Meat articles – Page 161
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Cornish fishermen in tuna price plea
Cornish tuna fishermen are in crisis talks with retailers after achieving very low prices for this season's albacore through local markets. They want a supermarket to rescue the fishery, which was only set up this summer, by agreeing to...
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spotlight - More people will be eating exotic meats such as crocodile, camel and kangaroo this Christmas
More people will be eating exotic meats such as crocodile, camel and kangaroo this Christmas, which means business is booming for Shropshire company Alternative Meats says co-director Jeanette Edgar (above left) The 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth...
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Asda recalls lamb with vet drug taint
Asda has been forced to recall thousands of packs of fresh lamb because they might have contained meat from sheep not fit for the food chain. The sheep had been treated with a veterinary drug called Doramectin, which experts say causes...
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Just 26% eating two fish portions a week
Only one in four people is getting their recommended two helpings of fish per week - though consumption is rising, research from Seafish has revealed. Twenty six per cent of people eat the amount recommended by the Food Standards Agency,...
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It's business as usual post-FMD say Kiwis
New Zealand lamb bosses have ruled out any lessening of competition in the UK when the New Zealand lamb season opens in January - while insisting they won't take advantage of the export restrictions imposed by FMD and bluetongue on British...
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Irish fury as FMD export ban lifted
An Irish farm leader has described as "incredible" the EU decision to sanction UK exports of fresh beef and sheepmeat from last weekend, when the lifting of an earlier ban had to be reversed within days. Malcolm Thompson, president of the...
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Asda backs British beef in plan to double sales
Asda has revealed the scale of its ambitions in the beef category following the launch of its quality-focused Beef Link scheme last week. Senior beef buyer Jim Viggars said that Asda planned to more than double the volume of beef it sold...
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M&S stops selling white veal in-store
Concern over the welfare of calves has led Marks & Spencer to stop selling white veal.Calves' liver is also being pulled as it comes from the animals reared on the Continent for white veal, often in small crates, which restrict their...
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Talking shop - Heritage Prime Meats
One week into the first Biodynamic Food Fortnight, veteran biodynamic meat producers Ian and Denise Bell, of Heritage Prime Meats, explain what's wrong with supermarket meat Does anyone out there want to stop the world for a while, step back and...
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Retailers rally to boost British light lamb sales
Hill farmers have welcomed a strategy by Sainsbury's to boost lamb consumption, but called on retailers to take further steps to clear the glut of light lamb - smaller animals that are usually exportedSainsbury's is introducing two ...
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Task Force exposes £200m meat losses
The red meat industry in Northern Ireland is losing more than £200m per year, according to a new report for the Red Meat Task Force.Retailers and processors in the province make an annual profit of £20m each from sales of red meat, but...
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Marine Harvest urged to move salmon farms
The world's largest seafood company is coming under pressure to relocate hundreds of salmon farms after its biggest shareholder said it was harming wild stocks. Billionaire John Fredriksen, who holds a 29% stake in Marine Harvest, told...
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Tulip swoop forms British pork giant
Dutch-owned Tulip has taken over the pork processor George Adams, creating the UK's largest pigmeat supplier.The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will leave Tulip with almost a third of the national pig kill and sales of £1.2bn if it clears...
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Bluetongue controls spark supply fears
The meat industry was facing a minimum of three months of crippling movement restrictions after Defra confirmed that the Bluetongue virus was actively circulating among cattle in East Anglia. With 19 cases of the midge-borne disease...
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Hula Hoops get starry Christmas ambitions
United Biscuits is changing the shape of Hula Hoops for the first time in its 34-year history, with a star-shaped crisp for Christmas. It is also bringing out a festive sausage and bacon 'pigs in blankets' variant to the range, in a move...
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FSA proposes stricter rules on origin labels
The FSA has launched a consultation on the country of origin labelling of meat and other food products in a move welcomed by the National Beef Association."If you're in a high-cost producer country, the only way to compete with cheaper...
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Bluetongue no threat to supply, say leaders
Retailers and consumers have little to fear from Britain's first-ever cases of the Bluetongue animal virus, meat industry leaders insisted this week.They rubbished media scaremongering about the disease and said it posed no threat to...
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Galtee hit by protests over pigmeat imports
Retailers in Ireland are facing a wave of damaging protests by pig farmers as the spotlight on low meat prices shifted away from Britain. Campaigners in the Republic have called for a consumer boycott of pork and bacon made by Galtee...
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spotlight - Organic livestock farmer Steve Ramshaw
Organic livestock farmer Steve Ramshaw of Northumbrian Quality Meats is on a mission to show that small farms can be sustainable if they aim high and try to produce top-quality meat I was born in a city and brought up in a council house on an...
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Benn to urge stores to back meat trade
In the next few days, Defra secretary Hilary Benn will call on retail bosses to support the British beef and lamb industry in the wake of the latest foot and mouth outbreak.NFU livestock adviser Peter King, who has been asked to brief...