This is one of those stories you sort of hear about a couple of weeks before, and maybe forget about unless some little nugget of information comes along that makes you want to dig a little deeper into it. Which is exactly what happened to me this morning. I do recall maybe even commenting on...
Watch: BBC follows a dog meat farm rescue operation in South Korea When he isn’t preaching the word of God, Reverend Joo Yeong-bong is raising dogs for slaughter. Business is not going well though. In fact, it’s on the brink of becoming illegal. “Since last summer we’ve been trying to sell our dogs, but the...
The meat of brown bears, a protected species in the EU, could soon be available to eat in Slovakia after the populist government approved plans for sale. Last month, the cabinet authorised a plan to shoot about a quarter of the country’s 1,300 brown bears in response to some recent fatal encounters. The state-authorised slaughter...
Tom Espiner Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images The UK government has brought in a temporary ban on holidaymakers bringing in cheese and meat products from the EU in a bid to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. Travellers have not been allowed to bring back items such as cured meat and cheese, including in...
Stephen Fairclough BBC News AFP UK law requires animals to be stunned before slaughter unless the meat is intended for Muslims or Jews A food wholesaler has been found guilty of fraud by falsely distributing chicken as halal meat and putting unsafe food on the market. Hamil Miah, 46, from Cardiff, was the owner of...