The abattoir in Oxfordshire went into administration and closed last year with question marks over whether it will ever reopen.

Nearly six decades after the national capital’s only pig slaughterhouse was shut following protests in north Delhi’s Andha Mughal, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has once again initiated the ...

Set to overtake Lyons as France’s third-largest city, Toulouse is also gaining cultural momentum, with a boom in visitors to its venues, and renovations of two major museums ...

In England and Wales alone, dozens of small plants have closed in the past 15 years. “The contraction of small abattoirs in the UK has been significant and measurable,” said A ...

A Welsh abattoir owner has warned the UK’s network of small slaughterhouses is at a “dangerous tipping point”, as rising regulatory costs threaten to ...

The South African Pork Producer’s Organisation (Sappo) says it continues to work closely with the department of agriculture and national and provincial authorities to manage FMD and ASF cases in ...

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents in Lira City are concerned about the deteriorating sanitation in and around the ...

South Africa’s pork industry is beginning to see tangible progress in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and African swine fever (ASF), with new regulatory amendments, vaccine roll-outs ...

Robert Okello Ayo, the City Communications Officer for Lira, acknowledged deplorable state of the abattoir, blaming it on limited resources. According to Ayo, designs for the new modern abattoir are ...

An animal welfare expert says that regulators should think again before introducing mandatory closed-circuit television (CCTV ...

An animal activist is seeking a public apology from the federal government, after the Department of Agriculture concluded it “likely” breached her privacy following an animal cruelty complaint over ...

Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen announces the start of a mass vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in South Africa, detailing the distribution of vaccines and the ...