RSPCA compromised by Freedom Food certification for farmed salmon
The Salmon & Trout Association has published a report commissioned from Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor and member: ‘RSPCA / Freedom Food certification of Scottish farmed salmon’.Freedom Food is the...
View ArticleTree planting issues for discussion with Woodland Expansion Advisory Group in...
We have already reported the meeting coming up in Oban on 22nd February with the Woodland Expansion Advisory Group but have been talking to Andrew Barbour, who chairs the group about the background...
View ArticleBuilding a million votes against GM foods in Europe
Time to sit up and take action on this – armchair action anyway: signing an e-petition.The European Commission has just approved growing genetically modified crops in the European Union for the first...
View ArticleMore serious concern on food safety
The UK Government has made a priority of what it calls ‘food security’. Superficially this is a reasonable concern. It is though, in its prioritising, strangely inconsistent as a sole matter for...
View ArticleFirst Milk cuts price per litre to farmers in the face of declining herds
First Milk has just cut its price to farmers by 1.25pence per litre of milk – although there is a serious shortage of milk production in the UK, aggravated locally in Kintyre by the dispersal of its...
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