It is legal in Britain to swing piglets against a concrete wall

Piglets are being abused on British farms

I mean this news story beggars belief for me. It makes me very angry. It is about a failure of animal welfare generally and concerns a story that Tesco has suspended a pig farmer because the piglets were raised in abysmal conditions. Some secret video footage emerged showing far workers at Cross Farm in …

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3D-printed T-bone steaks “food to data and data to food”

Patxi Larumbe has created a 3D-printed T-bone steak from butchers' offcuts at the slaughterhouse and he believes that it will "solve many of the world's food problems" and there is interest from a big American food giant in the process.

Patxi Larumbe was inspired by Star Trek to create a T-bone steak from discarded butchers’ offcuts using a 3D printer. He believes that the process which is described as “food to data and data to food” will “solve many of the world’s food problems”. The Times reporter says that the taste and appearance is …

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Climate change and illegal water extraction add to threats against Iberian lynx

Iberian Lynx Continued Threats 2022

An awful lot has been done to bring back the Iberian lynx from near extinction but it might all be undone because of global warming and years of agricultural overexploitation which have combined to lead the largest permanent lake in Doñana National Park to dry up. It is one of Europe’s most important wetlands. …

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