500,000 pigs at a slaughtering company have been abandoned and left to starve, with no supply of food and water for five days. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2012
AMERICAN CHEFS CHAMPION “SNOUT-TO-TAIL EATING”
The pig first evolved in Asia around two and one half million years ago before extending its habitat north into Russia and Japan and west into India, Mongolia, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and eventually into Europe. Continue reading
LET US GO FOR DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION
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made in Spain
Elena Benarroch -a Spanish fashion designer- wrote this article that was published on the magazine YODONA on May 12th. Continue reading
ARGENTINA: AN UNPREDICTABLE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Argentina will fail to import hams from Spain to increase the supply of domestic products, a measure that occurs at a time of trade tension between the two countries after the expropriation to 51% of YPF-Repsol. Continue reading
MONTANERA CAMPAIGN ENDS WITH 20% LESS PRODUCTION OF IBERIAN PIGS
While in the 2009-2010 campaign about 620,000 pigs were certified as Acorn Iberian ones, this campaign has fallen below 500,000 heads. Continue reading
SOYA EXPORTERS WILL SHUN EUROPE
The European Union risks losing vital trade links with animal feed suppliers such as the United States, Argentina and Brazil, if it fails to keep pace with GM approvals, according to a report commissioned by Brussels Agriculture Department. Continue reading
DINNER WITH CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill, who was one of modern history´s great trenchermen, wrote at the turn of the 20th century. “It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world”.