Chinese authorities crack down on black market pork

A spate of prosecutions against black market pork processors and vendors has been unleashed in ...

Leading US farm, conservation, and wildlife groups unite to protect conservation funding

Having succeeded in protecting funding for the Conservation Title in the 2018 Farm Bill, the ...

Amid trade disputes, smaller markets step up demand for U.S. pork

Growing exports to Canada (16,165 mt, +13%) indicate the U.S. is backfilling Canada’s product needs ...

Shoppers confused by welfare terms

Shoppers are confused by the proliferation of animal welfare terms used on product labels, with ...

Antibiotic-free production puts pigs at extreme disease risk

Jennifer Shike A new study confirms antibiotic-free production strategies leave pigs at considerable risk of ...

Formulating piglet diets without adding antibiotics

As it becomes increasingly uncommon to mix antibiotics or zinc oxide through diets for just-weaned ...

Load shedding: What we know about the state of the electricity system so far

Lameez Omarjee Eskom stopped implementing load shedding on March 24, after the stability of the ...

Agbiz and the IFC host workshop on water use efficiency in agri-processing

On 25 March, Agbiz and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World ...

Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA’s new leadership?

Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University The world of food and ...

PORCUS Mar-Apr 2019

Gene-edited food regulations: whether it’s a plant or animal shouldn’t matter, but it does

Alison Van Eenennaam We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat ...

Why the Global Environment Outlook matters

Authors: UN Environment The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is often referred to as UN Environment’s flagship ...