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The European Parliament warned about the livestock industry’s emissions while stopping short of urging a reduction in meat consumption to fight global warming.

The outbreak occurred in 40 calves. An epidemiological investigation is ongoing. The calves showed signs as salivation and fever.

The long-awaited 2008 US Farm Bill is the subject of the first MAP (Monitoring Agri-Trade Policy) newsletter of 2009, published by the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.

A group of food industry organizations, including the American Meat Institute, National Pork Producers Council and National Chicken Council, want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to oppose proposals to increase the level of ethanol to be blended into gasoline.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today that the Government has accepted all 26 of the main recommendations made by Sir Iain Anderson in his response to the 2007 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).

The number of farms in the United States has grown 4% and the operators of those farms have become more diverse in the past five years, according to results of the 2007 Census of Agriculture released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS).

Today the European Parliament adopted in first reading a Regulation to replace the current legislation on marketing and use of feed, both for farm animals and pets, based on a Commission proposal dating back less than one year. The new legislation considerably simplifies the existing procedures and improves the information farmers and pet owners will get on the feed they buy for their animals. It will help to promote innovation and competitiveness in the European feed sector and lead to a more integrated single market for feed by reducing the administrative burden for feed operators.

With the aim of improving veterinary vigilance in the Russian Federation, Rosselkhoznadzor have created a supervision system designed to automate the entry of data, analysis and distribution of importation, exportation and transfer licences for animals and animal products. (Original in Russian. Read Google translation here).

According to the latest swine census taken in November, the number of animals was 26.4 million pigs, which is 2.7% less than for the previous year, with an important decrease in the number of sows, which leads us to expect a decrease in the number of pigs produced in 2009, especially in the second half of the year. (Original in German. Read Google translation here).

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its opinion on Control and eradication of Classic Swine Fever in wild boar.

During 2008 a big reduction was seen in most categories of meat consumption in France, except for pig meat, where the level remained stable, and for chicken.

Last year the Dutch slaughterhouse Vion sacrificed approximately 8.2 million pigs, which represents 57% of the country’s pigs, while in 2007 the percentage was 60%. (Original in Durch. Read Google translation here).

Preliminary data indicate a 1% decrease in the production of feed in the EU in 2008, with decreases of 2.1% and 0.7% for pig feed and chicken feed, respectively, and an increase of 1.5% in the case of feed for calves.

The Central Bank of Brazil, is offering lines of credit to meat exporters, in a bid to ease the credit crunch afflicting the countries meat exports.

China's overseas purchases and imports of pork and pork products in calendar year 2008 were unprecedented for any single country in history. Based on import totals from China and Hong Kong, the country imported 1.925 million metric tons (4.2 billion pounds) of pork and pork products last year, including 1.161 million tons (nearly 2.6 billion pounds) of pork variety meats and 764,000 tons (1.7 billion pounds) of pork cuts.

Annual pig prices research by the German Pig Association (ISN) shows European Union producers got 13 percent more for their pigs last year than they did in 2007. However, pig costs rose significantly and that caused producer incomes all over Europe to be “vehemently in trouble”, says the association.