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Animals farmed update

Animals farmed was a monthly email newsletter series on the biggest farming stories and investigations that ended in February 2023

8 February 2023

  • Shepherdess-Basu-17 Shepherdess Aina Lizarza Solana, 26, finally has a moment to soak in the sun while her animals relax in an enclosed pasture. She is surrounded by goats known as the ‘cabra catalana,’ an ancient breed that is indigenous to Catalunya, but suffered near-extinction in past decades. Solana worked with these goats last summer during an internship at a farm working to revitalize cabra catalana populations and revive public taste in their meat. Vilanova de Meiá, Catalunya, Spain. May 9, 2022. The Good Shepherdess. Walking with a New Generation of Shepherd-Women in Spain

    Animals Farmed: a leap in salmon deaths, superbug fears and the life of a Spanish shepherdess

    Welcome to our final monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

11 January 2023

  • A man carrying chickens on a street in Ghana

    Animals Farmed: salmon farm disease, chicken tariffs in Africa and the return of China’s wildlife farms

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8 December 2022

  • A 26-storey pig farm in Ezhou, Hubei province, China, which plans to produce 1 million pigs a year.

    Animals Farmed: China’s pig skyscraper, lab-grown meat and egg shortages

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

8 November 2022

  • Farmers protesting with a sign that says "Fart tax, what a joke!"

    Animals Farmed: Walmart delay cage-free eggs, live export ban and farmers protest climate tax

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

10 October 2022

  • 3O0A0917photoshop reedit The river Wye as seen from the farm

    Animals Farmed: fast-growing chickens, river pollution and VR for cows

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

8 September 2022

  • Cattle tied to a raised railway line surrounded by flood water

    Animals farmed: China’s pork inflation, rabbit farm closes and UK mega-farms

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

9 August 2022

  • A veterinarian inspects a cow for foot-mouth-disease ahead of Eid al-Adha. Indonesia is dealing with its first large-scale outbreak of the disease in almost 40 years.

    Animals farmed: Tesco’s polluting poultry, killer heat and China’s pork boom

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

12 July 2022

  • Indigenous people hold a banner showing images of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira at a nighttime protest

    Animals farmed: microplastics in meat, ‘cruel’ Parma ham and jet-set salmon

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

13 June 2022

  • A French butcher prepares horsemeat on a block in a horse butchery shop in Marseille.

    Animals farmed: pigs cloned by robots, horsemeat trial and bird flu culls

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

10 May 2022

  • Free-range chickens on a farm

    Animals Farmed: bird flu hits the US, superbugs in pigs and the sheep with an enormous fleece

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

12 April 2022

  • Bird flu is causing a surge in egg prices in the US and in the UK has kept birds inside barns since November.

    Animals Farmed: egg crisis, new farmed fish killing rules and decoding pig grunts

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

9 March 2022

  • Sorting eggs at a chicken farm in China

    Animals farmed: an egg a day for everyone, avian flu vaccines and dairy cruelty

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

2 February 2022

  • pigs

    Animals farmed: Spain’s ‘poor quality’ meat, heat stress fears and billions of animals destined for landfill in the US

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

6 December 2021

  • Stranded cattle are rescued from a farm after storms caused flooding and landslides in British Columbia, Canada.

    Animals farmed: airport patrol pigs, male chicks and China’s meat demand

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

3 November 2021

  • Anti-meat protest

    Animals farmed: meat taxes, death in farming and anti-climate lobbying

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5 October 2021

  • Processing beef carcasses at an abattoir

    Animals farmed: UK supply chain crisis, meat plant workers exploited and Billie Eilish’s Cop26 plea

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

14 September 2021

  • Nordic Aquafarm's land-based aquaculture facility in Frederikstad, Norway

    Animals farmed: BSE in Brazil, UK pork crisis and radical Dutch plan to cut livestock numbers

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

10 August 2021

  • Chinese pig farmer Sun Dawu at a feed warehouse in Hebei.

    Animals Farmed: China’s pig critic jailed, rescue sanctuaries and factory farming ban

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13 July 2021

  • Farmers protest in Toulouse in April against common agricultural policy reform negotiations.

    Animals farmed: EU cage-ban moves closer, magic of horse power and ‘egg-mageddon’

    Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

11 June 2021

  • Chickens in cages

    Animals farmed: MEPs vote to ban cages, meat firm pays ransom – and anyone for crickets?

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