FDA Bans Importation of Enterprise Foods Products

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is raising alarm that food products containing deadly listeriosis bacteria may have found their way onto the Ghanaian market. It has therefore intensified its surveillance to confiscate and destroy some food products imported from South Africa. According to the FDA, it has received information from the South African Authorities … Read more

US Halts Brazil Beef Imports After Failed Safety Tests

The United States announced Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer, citing “recurring” concerns after large shipments failed food safety tests. The ban will remain in place until satisfactory corrective actions are taken, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement that will again put the … Read more

US Halts Brazil Beef Imports, Citing Food Safety Concerns

The United States announced on Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer, citing “recurring” food safety concerns. The ban will remain in place until satisfactory “corrective actions” are taken, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement. “Although international trade is an important part of what … Read more

China’s Yulin Dog Meat Festival Begins Despite Rumours of Ban

A controversial dog meat festival has begun in the Chinese city of Yulin, despite earlier reports it had been cancelled or toned down this year. The Lychee and Dog Meat festival takes place annually in Guangxi province. Earlier this year, US campaigners claimed that vendors had been told by authorities not to sell dog meat. … Read more

China’s Yulin Dog Meat Festival Opens Despite Rumoured Ban

China’s notorious Yulin Dog Meat Festival opened today despite rumours that authorities would impose a ban this year. Pictures taken today shows butchers hacking slabs of canines and chefs cooking the flesh in a busy market as the locals celebrate summer solstice with dog meat feasts. Multiple insiders told MailOnline that the Yulin government issued … Read more

Carrefour Pulls Dog Meat From Shelves In China

French retailer Carrefour has removed dog meat products from two supermarkets in China after an outcry from animal rights groups. Animals Asia said it had already asked the international chain, which operates over 200 stores in China, to remove dog meat from its shelves in 2012. The company promised to do so, it said, but … Read more

Carrefour Pulls Dog Meat From Shelves In China

French retailer Carrefour has removed dog meat products from two supermarkets in China after an outcry from animal rights groups. Animals Asia said it had already asked the international chain, which operates over 200 stores in China, to remove dog meat from its shelves in 2012. The company promised to do so, it said, but … Read more

Spain’s ‘jamon’ Conquers China

The aroma is so extraordinary it’s like “a punch in your mouth” says Luqi Wu, one of several Chinese businessmen standing in a cellar in southwestern Spain surrounded by thousands of hanging ham legs. While he samples the product, three of his colleagues learn to cut the ham as finely as possible — a crucial … Read more

India’s Meat Exporters Take Hit Amid Cow Protection Drive

Indian buffalo meat exports plunged more than 10 percent in April, new trade figures show, with traders blaming a campaign to protect cows for undermining its position as one of the world’s top beef suppliers. Buffalo meat shipments dropped 11.4 percent in April, data released this week showed, denting profits for a $4.8 billion export … Read more

Humans Pose Ever-Bigger Extinction Risk To Animals

An ever-expanding human population and exploding demand for food, water and living space, will place animals at “unprecedented” extinction risk in the next 50 years, experts warned Wednesday. Facing the highest level of threat are more than 360 species of large mammals in Africa, Asia and South America — the most biodiverse regions of the … Read more

Talk of China Dog Meat Festival Ban All Bark, No Bite

Animal rights groups say dog meat has been banned at a controversial festival in China, but local restaurants claim they haven’t heard anything about the purported prohibition. The celebration in the southwestern town of Yulin has long drawn international criticism but this year authorities have prohibited sales of butchered canines, the Humane Society International (HSI) … Read more

Ghanaian Full Back Phil Ofosu-Ayeh Set To Leave Bundesliga 2 Side

Ghanaian international Phil Ofosu-Ayeh is expected to leave Eintracht Braunschweig after the 2016/17 season, as the Braunschweiger Zeitung reported. The intelligent full back was rumoured to be leaving for Union Berlin last week and the move seems to have been confirmed. Ayeh, 25, who has been sidelined for the rest of the season due to … Read more

Thai Solar Chicken A Hot Hit

Not many chefs don a welding mask before they enter the kitchen, but Sila Sutharat prefers to cook his chicken sunny side up. Two hours south of Bangkok this 60-year-old roadside vendor has found an ingenious way to offer his customers something a little different by harnessing the power of the sun. Using a large … Read more

Taiwan Bans Eating Dogs and Cats

Taiwan has banned the eating of dogs and cats, lawmakers said Wednesday, as pressure grows to improve animal welfare after a spate of cruelty cases that stirred public outrage. Parliament passed legislation to outlaw the consumption, purchase or possession of dog and cat meat, with offenders facing a fine of up to Tw$250,000 ($8,170). Authorities … Read more

Ghana Considers Opening Dog & Cat Meat Factories

There have been calls on government to consider as part of its the one-district, one factory policy to identify comparative advantages in each district to inform the choice of a factory. The New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Lawra, and Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways Anthony Karbo suggested a dog meat factory in … Read more

Once-Banned Bloodsport Takes Wing

A boisterous roar sweeps through the crowd as a pair of roosters spar in a sandy pit, their spurs kicking, wings flapping and beaks pecking. “Bizan! (Hit it),” one spectator barks in Dari. Cockfighting, known in Afghanistan as “Murgh Jangi”, has the trappings of a gladiatorial contest. Wings outstretched, the avian fighters tear into each … Read more

Hong Kong Ends Brazil Meat Ban

Major beef market Hong Kong Tuesday ended a blanket ban imposed on Brazilian meat imports in a scandal over tainted products, Brazil’s government said. It said the move means all the major markets for Brazil’s key meat exports have relaxed their bans on meat from the recession-hit South American nation, the world’s top beef and … Read more

Three Key Markets Resume Imports

Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans on its products. The announcement of the reopening of the Chinese market to Brazilian meat imports did not come from Beijing, but from Brazilian agriculture minister Blairo Maggi … Read more

Egypt Resumes Brazil Meat Imports

Egypt said on Saturday it would resume importing meat from Brazil after a brief suspension following allegations that exporters in the Latin American country had sold tainted beef and poultry. “We suspended it (this week) until we found out what happened and now it’s back, but we won’t import anything from slaughter houses or factories … Read more

Hong Kong Recalls Suspect Brazilian Meat

Hong Kong said Friday it would recall Brazilian meat from 21 processing plants under investigation over a rotten meat scandal. The city, which is the biggest market for Brazilian beef, already issued a ban on all meat imports from the country earlier this week. It comes after police in Brazil said they had uncovered a … Read more