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Laura Sandys, a Conservative MP for Kent, has called for a ban on the export of UK livestock due to a recent outbreak of the Schmallenberg virus.
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Over 170 animals are competing for the title of 'most beautiful goat' in Saudi Arabia to raise awareness of the Hijazi breed of goat.
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While the world obsesses over how it might get around the airborne plume of volcanic ash disrupting travel in the northern hemisphere, Iceland has been largely left out of the news.
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Stem cell research has recently headed in innovative directions. Earlier this month scientists announced they had grown rabbit replacement penile erectile tissue. Now the idea of growing meat in the laboratory without animals is being proposed.
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A hailstorm destroyed crops, killed livestock and left at least 10,000 people affected in an area recovering from a long dry spell.
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A drought in Argentina is devastating the cattle industry there as livestock are dead and dying. The nation's economy is taking a major blow.
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An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world's marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry.
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A new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics explores the effects of pollution from livestock facilities on infant health and finds that production is associated with an increase in infant mortality.
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A deadly viral disease is threatening to kill millions of sheep and goats in Morocco, endangering the local economy and neighbouring countries.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta. The animal's carcass is under CFIA control, and no part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems.
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A disease that causes birth defects and miscarriages in livestock is found on English farms, but farmers warn of "under-reporting".
Farmers in two English counties where a new livestock disease has been detected say they are concerned for their animals.
Fed holds rates at record low, pledges to keep them there for `extended period'
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 Researchers in Saskatchewan are looking at a redesign for the enclosures used to keep pregnant sows, in an effort to answer calls for more humane treatment of livestock.
Seventy-four UK farms say the have been affected by the Schmallenberg virus 74 farms, which can cause ewes to give birth to dead or deformed lambs which often have to be shot.
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