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California court delays enforcement of part of pig welfare law

By Tom Polansek February 7, 2022

Reuters – A California court said it will delay enforcement of part of a law aimed at ensuring more humane treatment of farm animals, which opponents warned could lead to pork shortages and higher food prices in the most populous U.S. state. Supporters of Proposition 12, approved by California voters in November 2018, say it

News

Germany plans state animal welfare label on meat in shops

By Reuters February 2, 2022

Germany’s new government plans this year to introduce proposals for a state system to label meat in shops produced with improved animal welfare, German Agriculture Minister Cem Oezdemir said. The proposal is part of the coalition agreement for Germany’s new government which took office in December involving the Social Democratic, Green and Liberal parties. A

Co-operator reporter Geralyn Wichers says there’s always value in seeing both sides of an issue.

News, Other

Let’s court controversy

FIRST PERSON | Animal rights, deconstructing the ‘farm wife,’ and criticizing charity: what could possibly go wrong?

By Geralyn Wichers January 11, 2022

There’s this moment I think sums up my year well. It was October, and in the span of a few hours I, a) booked off time to go deer hunting and b) registered to go to an animal rights conference. It did break my brain a little. This year Co-operator editor Gord Gilmour advised me

More people are interested in adopting dogs from the Barrhead Animal Rescue Society, says Terry Colborne.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Pandemic fads: Are puppies, plants and backyard chickens still popular?

Nearly two years on, how are newbie pet owners, gardeners, and poultry enthusiasts making out?

By Alexis Kienlen January 7, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – Puppies, plants, and backyard chickens became hot trends when the pandemic took hold — but are they still popular almost two years in? Pandemic pets “At the beginning of the pandemic, we were swamped with people,” said Sharla Willis, who has operated a dog-breeding business for 16 years with her mother Dorrie

Protesters with activist group Toronto Chicken Save outside a poultry-processing facility in Ontario.

News, Other

Anti-activism bill dead, their actions killed it, say animal rights advocates

Federal biosecurity Bill C-205 was amended to target anyone, not just trespassers, before parliament dissolved

By Geralyn Wichers October 22, 2021

Animal rights advocates say a federal bill targeting activists is almost certainly dead, thanks in part, to their legal arguments and “turning” of MPs. Bill C-205, which proposed to increase penalties for trespassers on agricultural property in the name of biosecurity, died when parliament dissolved prior to the 2021 federal election. However, before this, it

File photo of piglets grazing in a U.K. pasture. (Grandbrothers/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Livestock

Britain facing mass cull of pigs due to butcher shortage

By GFM Network News September 30, 2021

London | Reuters — Britain’s farming industry has warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country. An acute shortage of butchers and slaughterers in the meat processing industry has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and Britain’s post-Brexit immigration

Letters, Op/Ed

Letters: Invitation to discuss hog production accepted

By Ruth Pryzner August 4, 2021

I accept Cam Dahl’s invitation to join the conversation about modern agriculture, pig production and public trust. A couple of years ago I visited the Greenfield Maple Leaf hog facility. ML Greenfield takes sows that have been confined almost their entire lives in crates a little bigger than their bodies and “teaches” them how to

News

France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022

By Reuters July 30, 2021

France will ban from next year the killing of male chicks by crushing or gassing, a practice denounced as barbaric by animal welfare groups, and will push for a similar measure at the European level, the agriculture minister said. Each year, 50 million male chicks are culled in this way, Julien Denormandie said in an

The pork sector was among those applauding the passage of the new legislation.

Livestock, News, Other

Ag leaders pleased on passage of anti-trespassing laws

Strong opposition highlights the need for more conversations around biosecurity and farming practices

By Geralyn Wichers June 11, 2021

Agriculture leaders say they’re pleased to see two biosecurity and anti-trespassing bills pass into law. Manitoba Pork general manager Cam Dahl thanked the province for “helping producers protect their biosecurity as well as help them protect their workers and their families on the farm.” “These bills go a long ways to helping with those efforts,” he told the

Limiting the amount of time a cow is in headlocks so it can spend time lying or eating has an effect on milk production and cow health.

Livestock, News

Just let cows be cows, say leading behaviour experts

The understanding of cow comfort has grown considerably and now focuses on natural behaviours

By Stew Slater June 2, 2021

Less time standing on concrete, less time in headlock gates, less stress and more time expressing natural instincts are the modern-day keys to what is an evolving understanding of cow comfort for dairy cattle. “Let them eat without stress, let them rest without stress, and let them calve without stress,” said world-recognized cow behaviour specialist Dr.

Daily Network News

Pulse weekly: Canadian pea exports up in January, lentils lag

Split market seen for Prairie farmland ahead of FCC 2025 values report

U.S., China discuss farm goods, managed trade in ‘remarkably stable’ Paris talks, sources say

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