Livestock & Meat

摘要

Eu unveils new chicken welfare proposals: The European Commission has announced new proposals aimed at improving the welfare of chickens intended for meat production. EU reforms to cut beef output: The introduction of decoupling will lead to a 2-3% reduction in EU beef output in 2005, with a consequent rise in market prices, according to European Commission forecasts. The continuing market shortfall will however pull in imports from South America and elsewhere.Market focus for EU poultry sector: The European poultry industry has been urged to accept the globalisation of the commodity market and to re-invent itself with a sharper, customer-orientated focus. Such a restructuring will take around 10 years, the Agra Informa World Poultry 2005 conference was told. Aussie pigmeat import ban looms. An Australian court has claimed that the country's government took an unduly lax approach towards the risk of importing the pig virus PMWS, in a ruling which looks set tolead to a ban on imports from Denmark, the US and Canada. Global animal welfare rules agreed: Delegates to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have agreed the first ever set of global welfare rules for the transportation and slaughter of livestock.