A court in New Zealand has convicted a farmer on July 5 for animal abuse described as “one of the worst” the government has seen. The Invercargill District Court in South Island sentenced farmer Bevan Scott Tait to nine months …
The Office of U.S. Trade has raised concerns over Taiwan’s decision to ban pork exports containing ractopamine, a livestock feed additive that stimulates lean growth and assists in generating food supply. Representatives from the U.S. Trade office issued their 2021 …
Chinese beef sales have helped Brazilian exports soar to record levels, causing concerns about the environmental cost of production. Brazil supplied China with 43% of its meat imports in 2020 according to data collected by consultant firm Safras and Mercado. …
Ridley Block Operations recalled three batches of CRYSTALYX Sheep-lyx due to elevated levels of copper. Sheep consuming excessive amounts of copper in their feed are prone to serious injuries and even death due to copper toxicity. According to the Food …
A plane from the Governor of Bahia carrying COVID vaccines crashed into a donkey while it was landing at the Ibotirama aerodrome. The King Air plane was reportedly taxiing down the runway at around 9:22 am local time when two …
Hong Kong authorities ordered the slaughter of 3,000 pigs after the African Swine Fever was discovered to be spreading throughout Chinese pig farms. The disease is rarely seen in the Hong Kong area, with the last case occurring in 2019, …
Cases of the H5 strain bird flu were recently detected in chicken farms in the western Japan prefecture of Hiroshima and Miyazaki.
The Japanese government reported that they have detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a chicken farm in Fukuoka prefecture just after an earlier one occurred in the Kagawa prefecture.
France has ordered the culling of 1,000 minks after the coronavirus was found circulating in a farm in Eure-et-Loir in western France.
Agricultural and health officials in Canada have reported a human case of Swine Influenza (H1N2) in Central Alberta.