NEWS AND VIEWS: Esther Whittingham is just 12 years of age but she bid for her first sheep at an auction when she was seven. She has been looking after her sheep and lambs ever since. She has even delivered lambs herself. She knows how …
In a move which only China could make, China’s administrators are introducing a law which states that diners who fail to finish their meal in a restaurant could be fined. President Xi appears to be on a personal crusade to stop food waste in China …
The world’s human population relentlessly rises and there is real concern but thankfully at last people are talking about it. Some people think that the world is already overpopulated by humans and there are questions as to the maximum human population that the planet can …
A chicken comes to a boy on a farm for a hug on the boy’s request. It’s a silent request but it is there nonetheless and the chicken responds positively and as you can see they hug each other. And when you see this you …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Although the UK supermarket, Morrisons, have decided to stop sourcing its own brand of corned beef from a Brazilian meat company accused of contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, JBS, Global Witness claim that auditors, financiers and retailers are involved …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Clearly, the Danish mink farming industry is in catastrophic crisis but it may be a good thing because there have been calls to finish it anyway. Most of the mink fur farmed in Denmark is exported to China and it is …
Background People should know by now that cows can be dangerous. It is well known that cows, all cattle, can be a risk to people in their vicinity particularly cows with calves. There have been several high-profile deaths of walkers by cows recently in the …
The facts are mysterious and opaque. A documentary filmmaker, Mads Brügger, a chef Ulrich Larsen and a former legionnaire and cocaine trafficker Jim Latrache-Qvortrup conducted a sting operation having gained the trust of a North Korean diplomat in Sweden named as Mr Ri who asked …
Yesterday, the French government announced plans to ban the breeding of mink in France and the outlawing of wild animals in travelling circuses under improved animal welfare measures. There are four surviving mink farms in France and they will be closed within five years. Circuses …