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Pig welfare faces EU threat

Sustain member Compassion in World Farming have launched a campaign to stop the EU defining fully slatted flooring for pigs as the best available technique for intensive pig farming. CIWF argue that fully slatted floors are not compatible with good animal welfare. European law requires pigs to have materials like straw in which they can explore, rest comfortably and nest before giving birth. Fully slatted floors can make the provision of straw impossible. In addition
fully slatted floors are already banned or will be phased out in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.

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Lindy Sharpe
Former Digest Editor Lindy Sharpe has now left Sustain.

Lindy Sharpe is a writer and researcher on food policy. She worked on Sustain’s Food Poverty Project 20 years ago, and returned to edit Digest, the online news bulletin.

In between, she continued her career as a journalist, worked as a staff researcher at the Centre for Food policy at City University in London, produced a report called An Inconvenient Sandwich for the new economics foundation, and looked after her children.

She originally studied English Literature at Oxford University, and subsequently did a Master’s in Food Policy. As a journalist, she worked as an editor and contributor at The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The Observer. She is currently completing a PhD at City University on the social aspects of sustainability in the food supply.

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