South Africa risks a mid-winter food security crisis after banning chicken imports from Brazil amid an avian flu outbreak.

Some meat producer in SA use mechanically deboned meat from Brazil to make polony, viennas, russians and braaiwors.

This ban, enacted by the Department of Agriculture on 15 May due to an avian flu outbreak in Brazil's Rio Grande Do Sul state ...

The looming halt in production poses a serious risk of widespread hunger and ... are profound. South Africa imports around 19,000 tonnes of mechanically deboned chicken from Brazil monthly.

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Over 350 000 chickens have been culled and over 500 000 have been placed out to rearing farms since the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) intervened at ...

The crumbling state of operations at poultry producer Daybreak Foods has laid bare a devastating animal welfare and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Africa’s parliament will summon its state pension fund manager to explain how the failure of a ...

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.