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• The curse of tail-docking: the painful truth about Italy's pigs | Cecilia Ferrara and Catherine Nelson

  19-01-2019 10:00
  In the country’s two main breeding regions, 98% of farmers rely on the banned, traumatic practice of routinely cutting pigs’ tailsOn a farm deep in Italy’s Lombardy region, scores of contented-looking pigs gambol, play and root about in spacious pens deep in straw. It looks more rural idyll than 1,000-strong breeding farm, but the pigs at this Fumagalli farm are in a lucky minority.Unlike many of the pigs destined for the country’s prestigious prosciutto market – wo
  
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• Could flexitarianism save the planet?

  19-01-2019 07:00
  Scientists say a drastic cut in meat consumption is needed, but this requires political willIt has been known for a while that the amount of animal products being eaten is bad for both the welfare of animals and the environment. People cannot consume 12.9bn eggs in the UK each year without breaking a few.But the extent of the damage, and the amount by which people need to cut back, is now becoming clearer. On Wednesday, the Lancet medical journal published a study that calls for dramatic changes
  
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• Diver filmed with huge great white: sharks must be 'protected not feared'

  19-01-2019 01:39
  Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher, came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recordedTwo shark researchers who came face to face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii.Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told the Associated Press that she encountered the 20ft (6-metre) shark on Tuesday near a dead sperm whale off Oahu.
  
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• Swimming with huge female pregnant great white sharks

  19-01-2019 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Footage emerges of divers getting up close and personal with massive great white shark.
  
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