Meat Processing

4 Jun 2012

Recently I watched a video called Farm to Fridge on the internet. The film is disturbing. It shows the workings of a slaughterhouse, where we see animals being slaughtered. A newborn pig undergoes...

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22 held over illegal slaughterhouse

20 Apr 2012

At least 22 people, including the owner, were detained in raids in connection with an illegal slaughterhouse on the outskirts of Shenzhen.

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A few home truths from an obsessive-impulsive foodie

2 Feb 2012

A few weekends ago, my husband called while I was at a friend's place. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I'm at Dave's, we're making sausages.' 'Making sausages? Why? I just bought some!'

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Cattle exports halted

10 Jun 2011

Shame on Indonesia! Australia has suspended all live cattle exports to the country for up to six months after a news report showed shocking pictures of the animals being abused before slaughter....

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Drug in pigs exposes evils in supply chain

16 Mar 2011

It's a criminal offence to use it in food, but Clenbuterol, known on the mainland simply as 'lean meat powder', keeps showing up.

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Abattoirs 'fail to meet standards'

8 Jul 2010

Standards at Hong Kong's major slaughterhouses to protect animal rights are below those adopted widely overseas, a law professor says.

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Man jailed 3 years for stealing a pig a day

A meat supplier who stole a pig a day from his firm for two years and duped it out of more than HK$3 million was jailed for three years yesterday.

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Poultry slaughterhouse likely to be scaled back

Plans for central slaughtering are expected to be scaled down following the surrender of 72 per cent of poultry retailers' licences, the health minister said yesterday.

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Pigs get star treatment as slaughterhouses are graded

Star-graded hotels or office towers are no novelty. But star-graded pig slaughterhouses?

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Baobao the pig's brief stardom could save her from nasty fate

A gift from Maggie Cheung Man-yuk may turn out to be a gift of life.

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Call for inquiry into 'brutal' killing of pigs

Animal rights activists and lawmakers have called for an investigation into why an estimated 2,000 pigs were slaughtered by shotgun while others looked on screaming.

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Activist abreast of the issues

Our favourite actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson sent a passionate plea yesterday to KFC Hong Kong - stop condoning the cruel slaughter of chickens.

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