Companies developing cell-cultivated products are to be given official guidance on safety and marketing procedures
Texas has recently announced it will ban lab-grown meat production and sales on September 1 2025 to join a growing number of states calling for an end to cultured meat production
Farmers in Wales said their businesses are in a 'precarious position' due to declining abattoir infrastructure
Glastonbury and Somerton MP Sarah Dyke has written exclusively for Farmers Guardian on the vital role of small abattoirs to farming communities and why they need Government support to stay open
Regulation and demonstrating the meat sector’s environmental credentials were hot topics at the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) conference
On today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown gives the latest on the first case of avian flu found in a single sheep in Yorkshire, the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Slovakia – where the disease has been found on three separate farms, and the Tenant Farmers Association's call on Defra to allow 'in-flight' SFI applications to be processed
Dr Meera Chand, emerging infection lead at the UK Health Security Agency, said: "Globally, we continue to see that mammals can be infected with avian influenza A (H5N1)"
In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on new Government plans that could force farmers and landowners to sell their land at a lower value, how lab-grown meat, dairy and sugar could hit retail shelves within two years, and a 'landmark' court ruling for environmental campaign group River Action, which has thrown out the NFU's bid to have chicken manure classed as an agricultural by-product, rather than as industrial ‘waste'
Livestock industry chief accuses Government agencies of rushing through 'a huge experiment in generational human health'
In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on Arla’s soaring profits, giving its farmer-owners the highest dividend payout in the company’s history, how tenant farmers are being left ‘unprotected’ by the Chancellor’s changes to Inheritance Tax, and the UK's borders have been called into question once again after 600kg of illegal meat was seized in Northern Ireland.