Soaring global gas prices have initiated a crisis in the UK pig sector as a shortage of CO2 used to stun pigs before slaughter could force farmers to cull their own healthy stock and dispose of them, instead of sending the animals to the food chain.

The cows kept by small-scale farmers in Africa are notoriously unproductive.

Agricultural sustainability company Trace & Save has reaffirmed in a case study that a lower environmental impact is directly linked with higher profitability in the South African dairy farming industry.

There are a growing number of choices available to consumers when it comes to alternatives to dairy milk on supermarket shelves.

It seems curious timing, doesn’t it, that the week that the British medical journal The Lancet came out with the recommendation to reduce our beef consumption by 90 per cent, that the new Canada Food Guide would mirror the recommendations by saying we need to reduce our consumption of red meat and sugar.

The ostrich is undoubtedly the world's largest living bird. Adult males stand 2.4 m tall and can weigh well over 100 kg; the hen is slightly smaller.