Press releases

Campaign for Local Abattoirs at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
Join us at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on 3rd January to hear an update on the campaign an...
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Press Release: SFT Responds to Animal Welfare Groups on CCTV cameras
The Sustainable Food Trust recognises the potential benefits of CCTV in abattoirs in preventing w...
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Press Release: Joint Letter to Michael Gove Urges Action to Save Small Abattoirs
Thirty-four organisations, reflecting a wide range of food, farming, consumer and nature conserva...
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Press release: Government action urgently needed to save small abattoirs
At the Future of UK Farming conference an expert panel explained why the continuing decline of sm...
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Agriculture Bill must help ensure the survival of local abattoirs
In a Parliamentary Briefing paper the Sustainable Food Trust and the Campaign for Local Abattoirs...
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Small abattoir owner and butcher John Mettrick reaches out to Michael Gove
John Mettrick is a butcher and small abattoir owner in Derbyshire and President of the National F...
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Michael Gove and Minette Batters to speak about the Future of UK Farming
The Future of Farming, a 2-day conference [1] on 27-28 April, organised by the Sustainable Food T...
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Local abattoirs must be recognised as a public good
Press release from ORFC 2019 calls for local abattoirs to be recognised as a public good
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