Meat news – Page 17
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NewsSBTi takes on farming-based emissions with new guidance
The new guidance will help businesses target the 22% of emissions that ‘had not been addressed before’, said the global environmental standards body
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NewsBeyond Meat rolls Burger and Sausage lines into Morrisons
The listing means the US brand is now available in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose
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NewsFrench plant-based bacon brand La Vie makes UK supermarket debut
La Vie is made from soy with sunflower oil extracted using a patented process the brand claims gives the product ‘taste parity with pork bacon’
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NewsMeatless Farm launches chipolatas and chickenless roast for Christmas
The roast is designed to ‘rival the more traditional meat-based Sunday lunch’ and is ready in 35 minutes
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NewsHeck rolls out autumn volley of new products
The dippers resembled a mix between a sausage roll, US-style corn dogs and chip shop staple the battered sausage, said Heck
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NewsNPA calls for more support for British pig industry due to successive crises
The industry has had seven successive quarters of negative margins meaning producers have collectively lost £600m since the autumn of 2020, AHDB estimated
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NewsSnacks brand Made for Drink launches ‘beer-friendly’ biltong
The brand said its ‘ongoing ambition’ was to ‘provide our retailers with common sense trade up opportunities within the snacks category’
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NewsRichmond unveils new packaging across entire range to mark new era
The Pilgrim’s Food Masters brand hopes the new design will build on its strong heritage
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NewsPilgrim’s UK announces proposal to close two factories, putting over 600 jobs at risk
The company has announced plans to close its Bury St Edmunds and Coalville sites and shift production at its Ashton plant to a four-day week
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NewsPoundland launches Cookit fresh meat & fish range
The Cookit branded range is intended to give customers ‘an alternative to supermarkets’, with prices starting from £1
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NewsThe Jolly Hog announces B Corp status in UK meat industry first
The certification means The Jolly Hog joins a growing group of companies who are focused on pursuing purpose as well as profit
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NewsPilgrim’s UK sees £16m loss but promises strong recovery
The pork giant reported significant inflation throughout the supply chain and lower pig prices meant results had been negatively impacted
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NewsUK red meat exports hit record levels during first half of 2022
Total value sales were more than 18% higher than the previous, pre-pandemic record levels, said AHDB
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NewsNPA appoints Lizzie Wilson as new CEO
Wilson has worked with the association since 2011 initially as regions manager and more recently as policy services officer
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NewsJBS and environmentalists trade blows again over slaughter numbers and deforestation
Fresh salvos follow April report accusing the Brazilian meat giant of huge emissions increase
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NewsUK food sector on brink of new CO2 gas crisis as supplier halts production
CF Fertilisers, the UK’s largest supplier of CO2 gas, has announced plans to close, amid an ’uneconomical’ energy landscape
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NewsNew Zealand meat industry focused on Asian demand over UK
FTAs with UK and EU were unlikely to cause major shift in exports, said New Zealand’s lamb trade body
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NewsLivestock methane pollution to be focus of new consultation to reduce emissions
Defra has asked for input from the agricultural industry, scientists and the public on the use of new types of animal feed products
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NewsPilgrim’s sets up lamb division following Randall Parker Foods deal
Pilgrim’s said it would ‘reinvent’ the category with the new lamb operation
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NewsMeat industry bodies raise concerns about new eco-labelling methodology from Oxford University
The paper found that many meat alternatives had a fifth to less than a tenth of the environmental impact of meat-based equivalents