Animals news

• How Labour and Lib Dems have used fight against puppy farms to win votes

  06-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Parties accuse government of ‘giving green light to puppy smuggling’ after animal welfare legislation is droppedIf you’ve spent much time on Facebook or Twitter lately, it’s pretty likely you’ll have seen adverts featuring mournful caged puppies posted by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.The opposition parties appear to have decided to try to make puppies the next big wedge issue, as they accuse the Conservatives of “giving the green light to puppy smuggling&r
  
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• Police detain protester for running on track during Derby at Epsom

  03-06-2023 14:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Activists detained after one got on track at Epsom showpieceNineteen arrests on morning of meeting before the DerbyTwo protesters have been arrested as they attempted to disrupt the Epsom Derby. One man managed to jump the fence before being tackled and handcuffed by police on the racecourse while the crowd jeered and booed. Minutes later, a woman attempted to climb the fence but was pulled to the floor by police.Nineteen activists were also detained earlier on Saturday in connection with plans
  
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• Melbourne nightclub’s use of snakes and a baby crocodile sparks probe

  29-05-2023 09:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Two Wrongs, in South Yarra, on Sunday night shared images on social media of patrons posing with the native reptilesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s conservation regulator is investigating the use of live snakes and a baby crocodile at a Melbourne nightclub after a social media backlash.Two Wrongs, located on Chapel Street in South Yarra, on Sunday night shared images on social medi
  
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• Peter V’landys loses ABC defamation case appeal, but court says racehorse slaughter report treated him ‘shabbily’

  26-05-2023 04:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Federal court justices uphold judge’s ruling and reject appeal by Racing NSW boss Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys has lost an appeal in his defamation case against the ABC over a report showing graphic footage of retired racehorses being slaughtered at a Queensland abattoir.The 7.30 program titled The Final Race treated V’landys shabbily but did
  
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• Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street gates – as it happened

  25-05-2023 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Armed officers at the scene but incident not being treated as terror-related, Metropolitan Police saysRishi Sunak is being interviewed on ITV’s This Morning.He says immigration levels are too high, but he rejects claims it is out of control. This is from the Daily Mirror’s Lizzy Buchan. Continue reading...
  
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• Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street gates – UK politics live

  25-05-2023 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Armed officers at the scene but no reports of injuries, Metropolitan Police saysRishi Sunak is being interviewed on ITV’s This Morning.He says immigration levels are too high, but he rejects claims it is out of control. This is from the Daily Mirror’s Lizzy Buchan. Continue reading...
  
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• Whitehall closed by police after car crashes into Downing Street gates – UK politics live

  25-05-2023 17:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Reuters news agency says one person arrested after incidentRishi Sunak is being interviewed on ITV’s This Morning.He says immigration levels are too high, but he rejects claims it is out of control. This is from the Daily Mirror’s Lizzy Buchan. Continue reading...
  
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• No 10 defends Sunak asylum backlog plan after Jenrick says it could increase arrivals – UK politics live

  25-05-2023 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Comments from immigration minister come as UK’s net migration figure climbs to a record 606,000Rishi Sunak is being interviewed on ITV’s This Morning.He says immigration levels are too high, but he rejects claims it is out of control. This is from the Daily Mirror’s Lizzy Buchan. Continue reading...
  
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• Tories accuse Sunak of breaking pledge after animal welfare U-turn

  25-05-2023 16:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal welfare groups and Conservative campaigners criticise decision to scrap kept animals billUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has been accused of breaking his word after dropping the government’s animal welfare legislation.The prime minister promised Conservative colleagues during the leadership election that he would bring the kept animals bill, a key plank of the 2019 manifesto, into law. The legislation was to ban live exports of farm animals as well as clamping dow
  
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• Animal welfare groups lose court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’

  24-05-2023 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners say billions of fast-growing birds will be left to suffer as judge rejects claims animal welfare rules are being breachedAnimal welfare campaigners have said billions of chickens have been left to lead “utterly miserable lives” after the failure of a high court challenge to the legality of fast-growing breeds, which suffer a multitude of health problems.The Humane League UK (THL), represented by Advocates for Animals, argued that the environment secretary, Thér&egr
  
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• How training dogs to chase bears might just save a grizzly or two

  23-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Karelian bear dogs are being used to scare wild bears from human settlements and reduce human-wildlife conflictThe dog is moving through the grasses of the open meadow, closely followed by bear biologist Carrie Hunt, who is observing his reactions as he sees the grizzly bear carcass for the first time. “Find it,” says Hunt, encouraging the two-month-old puppy. The puppy’s ears and tail are up as he approaches the bear cautiously, but with the confidence that Hunt is looking for
  
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• Philosopher Peter Singer: ‘There’s no reason to say humans have more worth or moral status than animals’

  21-05-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The controversial author on the importance of updating his landmark book on animal liberation, being ‘flexibly vegan’ and the ethical dangers of artificial intelligence for the non-human worldAustralian philosopher Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them. Now, nearly 50 years on, Singer, 76, has a revis
  
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• Co-op members and board at odds over AGM vote on chicken welfare

  21-05-2023 15:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Motion to adopt Better Chicken Commitment carried by 96%, but directors cited need for low pricesFeathers are flying at the Co-operative Group after thousands of its members voted to improve welfare for chickens reared for meat at the annual meeting on Saturday – but were partly overruled by the company’s directors, who said they wanted to keep prices down.A motion led by the Humane League UK campaign group asked the mutual to adopt the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) – a set o
  
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• I’ve campaigned for decades against the horrific lives factory-farmed chickens lead – but now there’s hope | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  19-05-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A shift in supermarkets’ attitudes and a new judicial review could at last make us face up to this blot on our moral conscienceIt’s been more than 15 years since my show Hugh’s Chicken Run exposed the treatment of the UK’s most farmed animal. The month after it aired, sales of factory-farmed chickens plummeted and free-range birds flew off the shelves as the public began to contemplate the short and brutal lives of animals they had seen only when headless, plucked and smo
  
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• The targeting of Epsom is open to debate – but the right to peaceful protest is not | Greg Wood

  15-05-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As infuriating as disruption to the most famous Classic would be, opposition to racing is likely to be around for some time All human life is present and cheerfully incorrect in William Powell Frith’s famous painting The Derby Day. Lords and ladies, rakes and scoundrels, circus performers and card sharps, high society and lowlifes and everything in between, all cheek-by-jowl at one of the very few events in Victorian Britain at which the classes mingled with relative freedom.If Frith were
  
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• University of York’s favourite mallard is a dead duck, fear staff

  11-05-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Students invited to celebrate life of campus favourite Long Boi, who has not been seen for two monthsLong Boi, the grand old duck of York, is presumed dead after going missing for several weeks, leaving behind grieving students at his favourite university watering holes.The 70cm-tall drake was celebrated at the University of York for his unusual height and gregarious nature, delighting students with his appearances around campus for several years. Continue reading...
  
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• Moulin Rouge forced to drop ‘cruel’ underwater act that used snakes

  10-05-2023 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  City hall warned Paris venue against use of terrestrial snakes after animal rights groups stepped up protestsThe Moulin Rouge cabaret club in Paris has been forced to drop a long-running act in which terrestrial snakes are plunged into a water tank while a dancer swims around them, amid outrage and growing street protests by animal rights groups.The historic cabaret club, which was founded in 1889 and whose audience for its dance shows is largely made up of tourist groups, had for weeks defended
  
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• Whales take up to two hours to die after being harpooned, Icelandic report finds

  08-05-2023 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Report by country’s food and veterinary authority questions whether hunting large whales can meet animal welfare objectivesWhales have taken as long as two hours to die during Icelandic hunts, according to a report by the Icelandic food and veterinary authority.A number of the carcasses of the fin whales shot by explosive harpoons during hunts in Iceland last year were examined by the organisation, which found that almost 40 % struggled for approximately 11 and a half minutes before they d
  
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• Calls grow for Pakistan’s zoos to close after death of 17-year-old elephant

  07-05-2023 14:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Case of Noor Jehan in Karachi draws criticism of conditions and renewed accusations of neglect at country’s facilitiesPakistan’s zoos have faced criticism and calls for their closure after the death of a 17-year-old elephant in Karachi.Noor Jehan, an African elephant, which have an average lifespan of 60 to 70 years, was already in poor health when she fell into a pond last month and was unable to get up. She later died. Continue reading...
  
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• High court rejects claim UK government ‘secretly’ ditched animal testing ban

  06-05-2023 10:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Cruelty Free International loses legal challenge against Home Office over cosmetics regulationsAn animal welfare organisation has lost a high court challenge over allegations the government “secretly” abandoned a historic ban on testing cosmetic product ingredients on animals.Cruelty Free International (CFI) brought legal action against the Home Office, accusing it of leaving the public “in blissful ignorance” that the department’s longstanding policy apparently cha
  
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• The hunt: the little-known war being waged over horse and hound foxhunting in Australia

  05-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s a scene that conjures images of the controversial British activity. UK hunters are travelling 16,000km to do it outside MelbourneGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOn Saturday morning, two very different groups began a now weekly ritual. Until September, one group – enveloped in scarlet or black riding coats and accompanied by yapping hounds – will hunt foxes. The other, decked out in all black and with intense eyes framed by balaclava
  
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• ‘Frankenchicken’ farming in England against animal welfare law, high court told

  03-05-2023 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Groups say Thérèse Coffey has failed to monitor and prosecute farmers for practice, which causes severe health problems Allowing farmers in England to keep fast-growing broiler chickens that suffer a wide range of health problems is contrary to animal welfare regulations, the high court has heard.The Humane League UK (THL), represented by Advocates for Animals, claims the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has unlawfully failed to properly monitor and prosecute fa
  
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• What do horses feel at the Kentucky Derby? Mostly fear and pain

  03-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  US audiences will be sold a tale of horses battling for glory and adulation at Churchill Downs. But the actual story is far more disturbingFor a horse, winning means nothing – they don’t even understand the concept. Yet every May US horse racing sells a narrative to draw in the public. The story goes that a group of young horses are locked in gritty pursuit of Triple Crown glory. But trophies, money and adulation are all human-made abstractions. The main concern for a horse is surviv
  
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• Suffering of gassed pigs laid bare in undercover footage from UK abattoir

  02-05-2023 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Hidden camera at slaughterhouse appears to show ‘utterly inhumane’ use of CO2 to stun pigs before slaughterNew undercover footage showing British pigs being gassed prior to slaughter has led to renewed calls to investigate the use of CO2.Campaigners say the pictures – the first of their kind to be obtained in a UK abattoir – show the “utterly inhumane” nature of using CO2 to stun pigs before being killed. But the pork industry says its use is recognised as the
  
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• Bucolic scenes on UK milk adverts hide reality of life for ‘battery cows’

  30-04-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Consumers are being ‘misled’ into believing dairy cattle graze in fields, saysanimal rights campaignSome of the UK’s biggest food firms are accused of misleading consumers after buying their milk from intensive industrial dairy units despite using images to promote their products that show cows grazing in green fields.Tens of thousands of dairy cattle in England are kept in hangar-style sheds with no or very limited access to pasture. They will typically be milked three times d
  
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• Beginning of the end? Subdued start to duck hunting season at Victoria’s Lake Buloke

  26-04-2023 08:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Season kicks off with animal rights campaigners outnumbering hunters at one location amid a parliamentary inquiryAt Lake Buloke, in north-western Victoria, a small smattering of gunfire punctuated the opening hour of what could be the state’s last duck-hunting season.About 30 animal rights activists outnumbered fewer than 10 shooters, as both groups waited for 8am to arrive and mark the official start of the season. Continue reading...
  
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• Champion of the gorillas: the vet fighting to save Uganda’s great apes

  23-04-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Under the watchful and resourceful eye of award-winning conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s threatened mountain gorilla population has made an impressive recovery – as has the local communityThe Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is tucked away in a remote corner of southwest Uganda. Meaning “place of darkness” in the Runyakitara language, this dense, mist-swathed rainforest makes for a good hiding place for half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. The
  
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• Rescued sea lion known for roaming San Diego dies, SeaWorld announces

  22-04-2023 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Tributes pour in for Freeway, who was named after his rescue from a busy freeway last yearFreeway, the beloved Californian rescue sea lion that would roam around San Diego, has died, SeaWorld San Diego has announced.“It is with heavy hearts that we share ‘Freeway’, the rescued sea lion, passed away yesterday – surrounded with love from his devoted care and rescue teams. His adventurous spirit won the hearts of all San Diegans and he will be remembered for that and so much
  
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• No goodbye for Toodles after poodle revived with Narcan following overdose

  22-04-2023 14:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Emergency veterinarians in Philadelphia save dog’s life after suspected accidental drug overdoseA poodle in Pennsylvania called Toodles was successfully revived with Narcan after an apparent accidental drug overdose, local animal welfare experts said.The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said they received a call last week from Blue Pearl Emergency Animal Hospital in Philadelphia saying a dog was brought to them showing symptoms of an overdose. Continue reading.
  
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• Are we facing a summer of sporting protests? - podcast

  21-04-2023 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  High-profile protests at the Grand National and the World Snooker Championships made headlines around the country; the London Marathon could be next. Sean Ingle and Damien Gayle report on what sporting stunts can achieve – and whether the authorities can stop themIt began with a protest at Britain’s biggest horse racing event. Members of the activist group Animal Rising scaled the fences at Aintree and attempted to stop the Grand National. As stewards and fans intervened, the protest
  
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• Horse racing’s disregard for animal life is appalling | Letters

  20-04-2023 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Karen Meek and Anthony Hill write in response to the three horse fatalities at this year’s Aintree festivalRegarding the RSPCA’s call for a review into the deaths of three horses at the Grand National (Over 40 activists de-arrested after Grand National protest, campaign group says, 16 April), isn’t it about time that this self-proclaimed nation of animal lovers stopped supporting so-called sports involving animals?The unnecessary loss of life at the Grand National and other rac
  
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• Italy captures brown bear that fatally mauled jogger

  18-04-2023 11:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Court previously suspended order to put down female brown bear after appeal by animal rights groupAuthorities in northern Italy have captured a bear that fatally mauled a jogger and became the focus of a battle over what to do with the country’s growing brown bear population.Officials in Trento announced on Tuesday that the bear, identified as Jj4, had been captured overnight. Continue reading...
  
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• Why did we protest at the Grand National? To finally make Britain talk about our treatment of animals | Alex Lockwood

  16-04-2023 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Society is wedded to a belief that it is OK to control animals for profit. We hoped halting the race would make people stop and thinkAs a country of people who love animals, it shocks and saddens many of us that watching a horse break its neck on national TV is still considered entertainment. That’s why 300 people from Animal Rising went to Aintree on Saturday to stop the Grand National.We did not fully succeed, and – like last year – more horses died. Hill Sixteen fell at the
  
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• Calls for jump-racing ban after Grand National horse deaths

  15-04-2023 22:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal rights group Animal Aid says change needed after ‘brutal horrors’ at Aintree as three horses die during festivalAnimal rights campaigners have called for jump racing to be banned and “much more stringent” safety measures put in place for the sport after three horses died at the 175th annual Grand National festival.The third fatality, Hill Sixteen, is said to have suffered a broken neck at the first fence at the Aintree racecourse in Liverpool before being put down.
  
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• More than 100 animal rights activists arrested after Grand National protests

  15-04-2023 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Demonstration by Animal Rising, a group linked to Extinction Rebellion, delays start of famous race
  More than 100 animal rights protesters have been arrested after a day of demonstrations that culminated in an invasion of the Grand National course that forced the start of the world’s most famous steeplechase to be delayed by a quarter of an hour.More than 70,000 fans were at Aintree to cheer on the 8-1 favourite Corach Rambler, but the day will be remembered more for the sight of dozens of
  
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• Grand National forced to delay start after animal rights protest at course

  15-04-2023 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Activists arrested as group linked to Extinction Rebellion attempts to stop raceTwenty-three animal rights protesters have been arrested after invading the Grand National course and forcing the start of the world’s most famous steeplechase to be delayed by a quarter of an hour.More than 70,000 fans were at Aintree to cheer on the 8-1 favourite Corach Rambler, but the day will be remembered more for the sight of dozens of protesters from Animal Rising, a sister group to Extinction Rebellion
  
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• Australian scientists grow replica human lungs and call for end to animal testing

  11-04-2023 17:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: ‘Everyone told me it would never work’, says professor of nanomedicine, but science needs alternatives to experimenting on animalsProfessor of nanomedicine Wojciech Chrzanowski finds it “heartbreaking” to recall some of his early scientific work, where research involving animal testing was inevitable.“The moment you start working in a lab, and have to start squeezing and cutting animals, you feel sorry for them,” Chrzanowski said. Continue reading..
  
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• Want free eggs? Don’t buy chicks – rescue hens

  07-04-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Soaring egg prices have fueled huge demand for backyard flocks, even as millions of ‘spent’ hens are killed yearlyFirst eggs became expensive and hard to find; now it’s the chicken’s turn. When the average price of a dozen eggs reached $4.28 in January 2023, more than double the previous year’s price, and shortages due to avian flu were common, people rushed out in search of chickens. The sudden demand for backyard flocks has left many farm stores and hatcheries sol
  
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• Pacific trade deal ‘will make mockery of UK’s climate ambitions’

  03-04-2023 17:21 via theguardian.com
  
  CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaignersThe UK’s membership of a Pacific trade agreement will result in more deforestation overseas, endanger animal welfare and “make a mockery” of the government’s environmental commitments, campaigners have said.Ministers signed an agreement late last week for the UK to become a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a trading blo
  
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• The black summer bushfires killed 3 billion animals. They are our relatives; they deserve to be mourned | Alexis Wright

  31-03-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three years after Australia’s firestorm tragedy, Alexis Wright offers a eulogy for the living creatures lost – and a plea for the humans left behindThis is an edited version of a speech to be delivered at the Black Summer Vigil in Sydney on SundayMany times since the black summer fires came, and finally passed, I have thought about the enormity of what happened on vast areas of country, killing 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates. I thought, what can one human being say
  
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• Octopus farming turns my stomach – but are some species really more worthy than others? | Elle Hunt

  30-03-2023 11:02 via theguardian.com
  
  I haven’t eaten octopus in years, yet being smart shouldn’t make them exceptions. All animals need protection from unnecessary sufferingThe collective noun for a group of octopuses, in case you were wondering, is a consortium – not, as some wags might tell you, a seafood buffet.I myself don’t eat octopus, and have made a lot of noise about why: they’re as smart as parrots, their brain is spread over their arms, they are many millions of years older than we are &ndas
  
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• Woolworths and Coles source pork from abattoirs featured in ‘horrific’ pig slaughter video

  29-03-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Abattoirs use legal kill technique considered industry best practice as footage shows some pigs writhing in distressGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s two supermarket giants source pork from Victorian abattoirs depicted in “horrific” footage recording the effects of carbon dioxide gassing on pigs prior to slaughter.Although the technique is legal and widely used, Woolworths has now announced it will examine the “circumstan
  
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• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – a magnificent Complicité creation

  29-03-2023 15:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Barbican, London
  Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga TokarczukThe opening night of this Complicité production was aborted at the 11th hour last week when its star, Kathryn Hunter, took ill. As the actor Amanda Hadingue walks on to a bare stage, house lights still on, and begins to speak about coughs and Covid, it seems to be leading to another postponement.Complicité fans may recognise this unassuming start as a signatu
  
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• Peta condemns Rings of Power producers after horse dies on set of Lord of the Rings spin-off

  27-03-2023 05:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal rights group urges film and television productions to use CGI in place of living creaturesThe animal rights group Peta has condemned the use of live animals on set after a horse died during the production of Amazon’s television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The horse had a cardiac arrest on 21 March, while the fantasy spin-off was rehearsing for its second season in the UK. Continue reading...
  
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• Tracking technology to protect greyhounds will go ahead in Victoria after unanimous support

  22-03-2023 06:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Motion from Animal Justice Party MP succeeds as regulator welcomes ‘opportunity to update and enhance our existing systems’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTechnology to track greyhounds – monitoring puppy births, stopping greyhounds from going “missing” from records, saving them from illegal exportation and recording euthanasias – is set to go ahead in Victoria w
  
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• Victorian MP to call for compulsory digital system to track illegally exported greyhounds

  21-03-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal Justice party’s Georgie Purcell wants scanning technology used on every greyhound, in real time, at every stage of their lifeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian parliament will be asked to consider the introduction of a compulsory digital system to track illegally exported greyhounds.The plight of missing and abused greyhounds will be raised in parliament on Wednesday by the Animal Justice party.Sign up for Guardian Australia’
  
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• Death of ‘world’s loneliest orca’ sparks calls for change

  17-03-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Grief at death of Kiska, Canada’s last captive killer whale, tempered by recognition of how she inspired a bill improving protection for cetaceansSometimes known as “the world’s loneliest orca”, Kiska the killer whale spent more than four decades in captivity at MarineLand, a theme park in Niagara Falls, Canada.For the last 12 of those years, despite wild orcas being social and intelligent animals that live in tight-knit family pods that hunt together and communicate thro
  
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• Death of ‘world’s loneliest orca’ celebrated for helping change law

  17-03-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Grief at death of Kiska, Canada’s last captive killer whale, tempered by recognition of how she inspired a bill improving protection for cetaceansSometimes known as “the world’s loneliest orca”, Kiska the killer whale spent more than four decades in captivity at MarineLand, a theme park in Niagara Falls, Canada.For the last 12 of those years, despite wild orcas being social and intelligent animals that live in tight-knit family pods that hunt together and communicate thro
  
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• Animal activists and commercial industry at odds after Nike halts use of kangaroo leather

  15-03-2023 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Company will move to synthetic materials but conservationists say culling bans could leave kangaroo populations worse offFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNike is the latest global brand to stop using kangaroo leather in shoe production.The sports apparel company said in a statement it “will stop making any product with kangaroo leather in 2023”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free
  
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• UK to import high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork in trade deals

  09-03-2023 11:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Tory party fears a revolt among MPs over post-Brexit agreements with Canada and MexicoPost-Brexit trade deals with Canada and Mexico will include imports of high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork, the Guardian can reveal.There are fears there could be a Conservative party revolt, with the former environment secretary George Eustice raising concerns over low welfare standards for pigs in Canada, and an influential group of Tory MPs and peers gearing up to oppose the deals. Continue read
  
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