The emoji masters have been cooking up a new batch of symbols for us, and they are about ready to be served. Bacon, avocado and pancakes are among 72 new emoji officially announced Thursday. The emoji are set to be released in Unicode 9.0 on June 21 by the Unicode Consortium, which makes final decisions…
Read more: 72 new emoji include bacon, pickle and face palmAHDB Pork is launching a first-of-its-kind initiative for English pig producers and allied industry. The Focus Farm is centred on ‘hands-on’ involvement and aims to improve physical and financial pig performance.
Read more: New Focus Farm Initiative to Improve Pig Farm PerformanceThe decision to award the top prize to a pasty has generated debate about what constitutes a pasty and a pie
Read more: Controversy as a pasty triumphs at the British Pie AwardsChina is in the middle of a pork crisis, with prices hitting record highs thanks to waning supply within China and a boom in consumption of the country’s favourite meat.
Read more: China is in the middle of a pork-based crisisA restaurant in Huntington Beach has just opened, with what the business describes as a to-go bacon bar. Saint Marc Pub-Cafe, Bakery and Cheese Affinage (that’s the real name) now has a bacon bar where customers can walk up and order 11 different types of bacon by the slice.
Read more: This Californian restaurant has a dedicated bacon barA large group of investors this week urged big restaurant chains to fight the use of medically-important (to humans) antibiotics amongst their meat suppliers. The investors asked the companies in the US and UK to produce a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the issue, and set out clear timelines for reducing antibiotic use.
Read more: Investors Urge Food Chains to Tackle Use of Antibiotics in FarmingA meeting was held last week between pig producers and the senior management at Karro Food group to express their anger and frustration at the lack of progress towards achieving approval for the long awaited exports of Northern Irish pork meat.
Read more: Lack of progress on approvals for pork exportsThe younger generation are a pack of bacon-hating traitors, it has been revealed. Specifically, more than a quarter of people aged 18-24 say that they no longer include bacon in a Full English.
Read more: English breakfast is ‘under attack’ from bacon-hating youngstersThe productivity of the UK pig breeding herd improved again in 2015, according to latest figures from Agrosoft, but the gain was smaller than in most recent years. The number of pigs weaned per sow per year averaged 24.1 across all breeding herds, 0.2 more than in 2014. This is the smallest rise recorded since…
Read more: Small Gain Made in UK Sow Productivity in 2015Heston Blumenthal has created the world’s most expensive bacon sandwich, admitting the fuel alone to send the meal into space for Major Tim Peake cost “a couple of million pounds”. The Michelin-starred chef’s bacon butty was among seven dishes – from red Thai curry to apple crumble – he created for Peake to take into…
Read more: Millionaire Bacon sandwich made by Heston Blumenthal launched into space for Tim Peake
