The proportion of consumer spend at UK supermarkets that goes on items on promotion has hit its lowest level in 11 years, according to Nielsen retail…
Month: April 2017
Reducing antibiotic consumption in animals alone will often have very limited benefits for human health, according to a new scientific paper published today by the Royal…
I’m not usually a sore loser (although my husband will dispute that when it comes to any kind of competitive game) but I do get really annoyed…
The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today for the 12 weeks ending 26 March 2017, show supermarket sales increased in value by…
Red Tractor is one of seven assurance schemes expected by the UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime to qualify as proof of competence beyond December 31, 2017. Since the…
The long term trend of declining numbers of pig-slaughtering abattoirs in England appears to have stabilised. The latest figures from AHDB Pork show that 118 slaughterhouses…
The NPA will have the chance to feed in its views to a House of Lords inquiry into the implications of Brexit on farm animal welfare this week.…
Never has Donald Rumsfeld’s legendary summary of our limited understanding of an uncertain world been more apt. As the then US Secretary of State for Defence…
I’m writing this from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, where for the past 11 days I’ve been attending the Nuffield Contemporary Scholars Conference (CSC) with all…
I’m not much of an artist. I vividly remember slaving over a piece of artwork at school, only to be dashed by the teacher’s one-word comment:…