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Call to ban using CO2 to slaughter pigs, Farmers in the nude, Barcodes on meat

There has been a call to to ban using CO2 to stun pigs before slaughter. Georgina Crayford from the National Pig Association gives Sybil Ruscoe her response.

There has been a call to to ban using CO2 to stun pigs before slaughter. Georgina Crayford from the National Pig Association gives Sybil Ruscoe her response.

An Australian firm have designed a silicone tag to add to steaks which works like a barcode designed to give consumers the opportunity to find out where and how the meat has been produced.

Sybil has been along to a photo session with four farmers all taking their kit off for a calendar to raise money for an Oncology unit. Will she bare all for the cameras?

Mariclare Carey Jones has been to meet a farmer to find out how the rapeseed harvest has been affected by the hot dry summer.

Producer: Toby Field.

13 minutes

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  • Wed 15 Aug 2018 05:45

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