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Rethinking Christmas Dinner - two days to Christmas Print E-mail
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
With less than a week to Christmas Dinner, please consider the latest developments in the story about Tydstroom's broiler chickens.

pdf Tydstroom's response  190.03 Kb

pdf CIWF(SA) Letter to Tydstroom 38.77 Kb

Jenny Copley, experienced Animal Welfare Inspector with a special interest in farmed animals, has commented on CIWF(SA)'s letter to Mr Gerber, pdf Click here to read Jenny Copley's letter.  9.68 Kb
 
Rethinking Christmas Dinner updated Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 December 2008
court-hearingpdf Update on Rethinking Christmas Dinner 131.65 Kb

Broken bones and bruises.. Somewhere along the production line, Tydstroom’s chickens are being battered? Clues come to light as our investigation continues…
Special Report by Compassion in World Farming (South Africa)

The story so far:
In November 2008, Compassion in World Farming (South Africa) asked the Animal Welfare Society of South Africa (AWS) to investigate a complaint  by Robertson resident Anne Botha that the chickens on display under the Tydstroom Free Range label at her local Pick n Pay branch had bruises and  broken bones.

After investigation of the complaint by the AWS team and the subsequent report  published by Compassion in World Farming (South Africa) (see www.animal-voice.org then click on ‘News’ and scroll down to see this report), Mr Charlie Gerber, General Manager of Pioneer Foods, the controlling company of Tydstroom Poultry Farms, formally invited the AWS inspectors to revisit the plant.
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Rethinking Christmas Dinner Print E-mail
Monday, 24 November 2008

rethinking-christmas-dinnerA broiler chicken with broken bones and bruises prompted one South African consumer to stand up and be counted!.

pdf Please click here to read "Rethinking Christmas Dinner"  146.86 Kb

 
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Water Footprint

On World Water Day (22nd March) and on every other day, for that matter, we need to remember that meat-eating carries a giant water footprint.
Did you know? It takes 13 million litres of water to raise and convert one cow or ox into meat!
Did you know? To produce one portion of beef (250g) requires the same amount of drinking water that one person needs (at one litre a day) for 34 years of life!
For further info, go to: http://www.waterfootprint.org/