M&S Bird Imports 'a One-Off'
UK - Marks and Spencer has said it is not looking to import turkeys next Christmas after it came in for criticism from farmers for stocking Brazilian birds in 2007.

Celebrity Chefs Campaign for Chicken Welfare
UK - Two of Britain's top celebrity chefs are launching a campaign get consumers to eat more welfare friendly reared chicken by revealing some of the welfare issues in poultry production.

The End for Cheap Food
UK - The era of cheap food may be over.

RSPCA Calls for End to Cruelty to Chickens
UK - The British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has launched a new campaign to improve the welfare of chicken bred for meat.

NFU - World's Food Supply Balance on a Knife Edge
UK - National Farmers' Union (NFU) president Peter Kendall has warned that the world's food supply is balanced on a knife edge between sufficiency and shortage.

Eggsellent New Website in Schools
UK - Lion Quality egg producers have launched an innovative new website aimed at developing schoolchildren’s understanding of the role that eggs can play in a healthy diet.

EU Rule Change puts UK in a Fluster
UK - Small traditional poultry producers and growers who use glasshouses could find their businesses under threat from EU rules lumping their businesses into the same pollution control bracket as power stations, the NFU warned today.

Poultry house is approved
UK - The UK's leading egg marketing company has been given permission to build a free range poultry house for 12,000 hens.

A Christmas Recipe for Disaster
UK - Check out the FSA's Christmas radio ads, featuring celebrity chefs Gary Rhodes and Ainsley Harriott. The ads are being aired today as part of the Agency's campaign to help people avoid serving up food poisoning this Christmas.

Parasitic Worms
UK - Have you thought about what may be happening within the guts of your hens? If not, they may look like this:

UK Pig/Poultry Fair 1st to Forge Links
UK - For the first time, the 2008 British Pig and Poultry Fair will encompass all members of the supply chain with some significant changes and developments for the event, which will be held on May 13th and 14th 2008 at Stoneleigh Park.

Aviagen PhD Student Scoops Scholarship Award
UK - Gillian Hunter, BVMS, MS, MRCVS, a PhD student sponsored jointly by Aviagen and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been given the Scholarship Award at the recent British Poultry Council Annual Awards Ceremony held...

Flock Health - Using Your Senses
UK - Producers are only too well aware that the costs of investigating production and mortality problems in free range laying flocks can be an expensive business.

Foul Smells Claim Over Chicken Factory
UK - A chicken factory is still making a stink a year after being hit with a massive fine, according to its neighbours.

Jamie's Dinners - Fowl but Fair?
UK - Once again, it seems that Channel 4 is out to shock its audience – this time amidst fears that it will do so at the expense of British farmers, reports FARMINGUK.