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10.12.19

Environment

World Bank urged to divest from Brazilian beef

A UN special rapporteur and his predecessor in post have called on the Bank's investment arm to ensure it only contributes to climate-friendly businesses

10.12.19

Environment

Record number of fires rage around Amazon farms that supply the world's biggest butchers

MEPs have called for a rethink of the Mercosur trade deal after the Bureau's revelations about burning in the Amazon around Brazilian abattoirs. The fires are often linked to cattle ranching in the re...

21.10.19

Environment

German appetite for beef eats into Brazilian rainforest

The Bureau shared data on imports of Brazilian beef across the EU with Die Welt, the German newspaper, who found major household names were buying from meat companies linked to deforestation

23.09.19

Environment

British egg farms breached salmonella rules more than 100 times

After revealing that salmonella in British eggs had poisoned 100 people, the Bureau discovered that rules to control the disease had been breached across the sector

20.09.19

Environment

Exclusive: At least 100 cases of salmonella poisoning from British eggs

The Bureau can exclusively reveal that British eggs have been contaminated with a dangerous strain of salmonella, despite recent government assurances that they are safe

17.09.19

Environment

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation

The Bureau and Repórter Brasil have discovered that a major Brazilian meat company bought cows from a ranch that had been fined weeks earlier for breaking environmental protection rules

02.07.19

Environment

JBS: The Brazilian butchers who took over the world

The world's biggest meat company has the power to impact climate change and openly admits to corruption, yet you've probably never heard of it

02.07.19

Environment

Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon

A huge cattle ranch business is flouting bans designed to protect the rainforest and selling its cows to the world's largest meat company, our investigation has found

02.07.19

Environment

Brazil sent 1 million contaminated chickens to the UK in two years

Our data analysis showed that Brazil is exporting tonnes of salmonella-infected frozen chicken to Europe despite its much lower standards

13.06.19

Environment

How ammonia is killing off the countryside

The Bureau investigated the damage done to the environment by rising ammonia emissions from farms, and the simple steps farmers and government officials can take to prevent it

13.06.19

Environment

Deadly gas: Cutting farm emissions in half could save 3,000 lives a year

Led by an expert analysis of how ammonia gas is damaging human health in the UK, we investigated why farms are not taking simple measures to reduce their pollution

18.01.19

Global Superbugs

World's biggest animal drugs company stops marketing antibiotics as growth promoters in India

Zoetis is still selling feed additives which make livestock grow faster

28.12.18

Environment

Intensive farmers get £70M in government subsidies in two years

Industrial-scale livestock farms housing tens of thousands of animals have received subsidies despite fears about spread of US-style farming in the UK

17.12.18

Environment

Suffocation, scalding, heat stress: Chickens suffer "inexcusable" welfare breaches at US abattoirs

Previously unpublished US Department of Agriculture inspection logs reveal welfare violations in US abattoirs

12.10.18

Environment

Experts fear more food poisoning if chickens not inspected

Proposed new regulations would remove requirement to inspect every chicken before it goes into the foodchain

12.10.18

Global Superbugs

World’s biggest animal drugs company sells antibiotics to fatten livestock in India despite superbug risk

Zoetis, a former subsidiary of the drugs giant Pfizer, has been accused of double standards for selling growth promoters in India while publicly supporting a ban in the US

26.09.18

Environment

Hundreds of pig carcasses destroyed after "dangerous" hygiene failings at meat plant

US officials inspecting UK plants found major food safety breaches including meat contaminated with faecal matter entering production lines.

19.09.18

Global Superbugs

Antibiotics in agriculture: The blurred line between growth promotion and disease prevention

A loophole means US farmers can still use many antibiotics targeted by a ban on growth promotion

19.09.18

Global Superbugs

Critical antibiotics still used on US farm animals despite superbug crisis

Tests on thousands of meat samples show that farm animals are still being dosed with powerful antibiotics classified as “critically important” to human health.

05.09.18

Environment

Contaminated meat: Tests find supermarket products contain DNA from animals not on the label

Regulators found 135 cases where products labelled as pork, beef or lamb contained unspecified meats, often a composite of multiple species.

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