9 h. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm after covert filming of animal abuse

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

Economics

9 h. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm over animal abuse footage

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

Economics

12 h. ago Major supermarkets suspend supplies from farm after reports of animal cruelty

Major chains Tesco and Asda said they had suspended supplies from the farm

Economics

15 h. ago Two supermarket chains suspend supplies after pig cruelty reports

Covert footage appeared to show workers at Northmoor Farm in Lincolnshire abusing piglets

Economics

15 h. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from pig farm after animal cruelty reports

Tesco and Asda said they had suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm in Lincolnshire, which is run by British meat producer Cranswick.

Economics

23 h. ago ‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic

Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get publishedAs the second world war reached its height, the winter of 1943-4 was one of the coldest of the century. My parents were living in a poorly heated flat in Kilburn, north-west London. My mother was working at the Ministry of Food. She was deeply involved in BBC Radio’s Kitchen Front which tried to help people conjure nutritious meals from their rations. My father became literary editor of Tribune magazine in November 1943. He was only required in the office three days a week, which gave him the time to write Animal Farm.Every evening, my father would read what he’d written to my mother under heavy blankets in bed. It was the only warm place in the flat. They would discuss the developing story and where it might go next. Lettice Cooper, the novelist and my mother’s Ministry of Food colleague, remembered my mother updating them every morning...

Politics

4 d. ago Farm animals and pets rushed to safety as Greek wildfire plagues port city

Farm animals and pets have been rushed to safety as wildfires ravaged the Greek port city of Patras.

Events