Livestock: fast-growing chickens, river pollution, and RVs for cows

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Calls are growing for an EU ban on the export of live farm animals after a botched shipment of calves from France to Algeria. The bulls were intended for slaughter but unloading was refused due to erroneous health certificates. The bureaucratic wrangle lasted three weeks, leaving the bulls stranded on the ship before being "killed urgently" back in France.
New Zealand to ban bulls live animal exports from next April, two years after storms sank a cattle ship, killing 41 crew and 6,000 cattle. The deaths of two New Zealanders from the crew of the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in a typhoon in September 2020, helped galvanize the movement to ban exports of live sheep and cattle.
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Swiss voters have rejected a proposed ban on factory farming in a referendum. The government's VoteInfo app showed an interim result of 62.86% of votes against the proposal to make protecting the dignity of farm animals, such as cattle, chickens and pigs, a constitutional requirement.
The introduction of basic welfare standards for farmed fish has been hailed as "an important step forward" by campaigners. The

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Livestock: fast-growing chickens, river pollution, and RVs for cows

News from around the world

Calls are growing for an EU ban on the export of live farm animals after a botched shipment of calves from France to Algeria. The bulls were intended for slaughter but unloading was refused due to erroneous health certificates. The bureaucratic wrangle lasted three weeks, leaving the bulls stranded on the ship before being "killed urgently" back in France.

New Zealand to ban bulls live animal exports from next April, two years after storms sank a cattle ship, killing 41 crew and 6,000 cattle. The deaths of two New Zealanders from the crew of the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in a typhoon in September 2020, helped galvanize the movement to ban exports of live sheep and cattle.

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This photograph taken on September 15, 2022, near Collex-Bossy shows a plastic cow statue on a trailer in a field between two signs reading in French

Swiss voters have rejected a proposed ban on factory farming in a referendum. The government's VoteInfo app showed an interim result of 62.86% of votes against the proposal to make protecting the dignity of farm animals, such as cattle, chickens and pigs, a constitutional requirement.

The introduction of basic welfare standards for farmed fish has been hailed as "an important step forward" by campaigners. The