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The main goal of the present paper is to overview, using the example of pigs/pork, the developments in official meat inspection in the European Union that occurred from 2000 onwards. The developm...

https://www.barfblog.com/2019/07/pig-inspection-in-europe/

When Listeria killed seven people in Australia last year, linked to rockmelon (cantaloupe for you North American types) growers acted like it never happened before and just wanted to get product ...

https://www.barfblog.com/2019/05/fda-seeking-source-of-imported-melons-in-salmonella-outbreak/

Secret filming by broadcaster TVN revealed the unwell animals being killed at a slaughterhouse situated 112km east of Warsaw. Chris Harris of Euronews reports meat from the abattoir went to Eston...

https://www.barfblog.com/2019/02/poland-sick-cow-slaughterhouse-meat-from-closed-abattoir-sold-to-nine-eu-countries/

An edited version of this fascinating Times story is below: “This is the spot,” said Morris Njeru, gazing down at a tangled patch of farmland where he recently found the bloody corpses of Dav...

https://www.barfblog.com/2018/01/when-the-going-gets-weird-the-weird-turn-pro-to-sate-chinas-appetite-african-donkeys-are-stolen-and-skinned/

This story is a good segue to promote my talk on food fraud at Bug Day on October 17th, 2017 in Winnipeg Manitoba. Bug Day is hosted by Health Sciences Centre in collaboration with the University...

https://www.barfblog.com/2017/08/greed-two-men-imprisoned-from-the-horsemeat-scandal/

Amy has Spam in her blood, being spawned in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Ted Genoways, a writer whose book “This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm” will be published next year b...

https://www.barfblog.com/2016/10/more-animal-welfare-than-microbial-food-safety-although-the-two-are-linked-the-fight-over-transparency-in-the-meat-industry/

We were going to do Canadian Thanksgiving in Australia, but too much hockey (the ice kind, including world women’s hockey day, which garnered international attention for Brisbane – that’s S...

https://www.barfblog.com/2016/10/wkrp-in-reality-barbaric-tradition-of-throwing-live-turkeys-from-planes-continues-in-the-ozarks/

China’s southern city of Yulin began its annual dog meat festival on Tuesday despite opposition from millions of animal rights activists. Residents of the city have complained of new government...

https://www.barfblog.com/2016/06/chinas-yulin-dog-meat-festival-begins-for-2016-despite-protests/

An undercover video taken at one of the nation’s largest pork producers shows pigs being dragged across the floor, beaten with paddles, and sick to the point of immobility. By law, pigs are sup...

https://www.barfblog.com/2015/11/guidelines-are-nice-enforcement-undercover-video-at-hormel-foods-facility/

At least 30 people, including some who were admitted to area hospitals, were reported sick due to a salmonella outbreak after a community meal Sunday at a Parker County church.   Church leaders ...

https://www.barfblog.com/2015/10/30-sick-church-says-dont-talk-about-salmonella/