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European food trade unions called for better working conditions for workers in the bloc's meat sector during a conference held in Berlin on Tuesday. The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT) is proposing an EU directive for employment contracts in the sector, along with increased checks. "The working conditions in the meat sector have stained the European labour market. Regardless of its profitability, a sector cannot truly thrive if built on exploitation and social dumping," EFFAT General Secretary Kristjan Bragason said. These issues could no longer be tackled at natio...
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European food trade unions called for better working conditions for workers in the bloc's meat sector during a conference held in Berlin on Tuesday. The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT) is proposing an EU directive for employment contracts in the sector, along with increased checks. "The working conditions in the meat sector have stained the European labour market. Regardless of its profitability, a sector cannot truly thrive if built on exploitation and social dumping," EFFAT General Secretary Kristjan Bragason said. These issues could no longer be tackled at natio...
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The head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) believes that famine is already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip. At a hearing in the US Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Samantha Power was asked whether this assessment was particularly true for the north of the sealed-off coastal area. She answered "yes." According to the US media, this makes Power the first US government representative to have publicly confirmed this assessment. The official classification as a famine means that at least 20% of the population is affected by extreme food shortages. In addi...
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German chicken farmers are switching over to white hens in growing numbers, meaning that the brown eggs long familiar to German consumers could disappear from supermarket shelves in the coming years. "We are already seeing fewer and fewer brown eggs today, and soon there will probably be none at all," said Henner Schönecke, chairman of the Association of German Egg Producers. The trade group said that brown eggs currently account for about 30% of the eggs on regular supermarket shelves in Germany, but have largely vanished from discount stores. Only a decade ago, more brown eggs were sold in G...
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German chicken farmers are switching over to white hens in growing numbers, meaning that the brown eggs long familiar to German consumers could disappear from supermarket shelves in the coming years. "We are already seeing fewer and fewer brown eggs today, and soon there will probably be none at all," said Henner Schönecke, chairman of the Association of German Egg Producers. The trade group said that brown eggs currently account for about 30% of the eggs on regular supermarket shelves in Germany, but have largely vanished from discount stores. Only a decade ago, more brown eggs were sold in G...
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High ranking officials for United Nations agencies have warned the UN Security Council that thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip are starving to death. "At least 576,000 people in Gaza, one quarter of the population, [are] one step away from famine," Ramesh Rajasingham, director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told the UN's most powerful body on Tuesday. Rajasingham added that one in six children under the age of two in northern Gaza is "suffering from acute malnutrition" while nearly the entire population of the territory has to rely on "woefully inade...
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Prosecutors in Hanover have dropped a criminal public corruption investigation into local police officers who accepted free meals of currywurst from a training instructor. The investigation had targeted 17 employees from Hanover's Central Police Directorate (ZPD) under suspicion of accepting the free sausages soaked in curry ketchup. Currywurst is a beloved fast-food dish in much of Germany. A spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor's offce in Hanover confirmed to dpa that they had ditched the currywurst corruption case. She told Hanover's Allgemeine newspaper that there wasn't sufficient ...
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