RAWALPINDI  - Sale of ailing cattle meat is continuing unchecked in the area of Pir Wadhai.Most of the butchers are selling meat of ailing, weak and near to death animals in and around the areas of Pir Wadhai. “The meat is infected as its color is black and stench continues to emit ...

THE HAGUE - The Netherlands' food watchdog on Wednesday asked hundreds of companies across Europe, supplied by a Dutch wholesaler suspected of mixing beef and horsemeat, to check 50,000 tonnes of suspect meat. The latest saga comes after a vast food scandal that erupted across Europe after ...

THOSE pleased with the success of their efforts to shave off the weight in January might want to look away now.Because all of their hard work could be undone by this 1ft tall burger, should they take on the challenge to eat it in just 20 minutes. But those who tackle it can shrug off some of the ...

LAHORE - Punjab Agriculture and Meat Company (Pamco) is working on a number of projects with a view to enhance supply of healthy animals to slaughter houses so that soaring prices of meat could be controlled.Talking to The Nation, Pamco CEO Dr Hamid Jalil said that due to policies and measures ...

OKARA - Police conducted a raid on a house where a dead buffalo was being slaughtered but the accused managed to escape. The police took the slaughtered buffalo in their custody. The buffalo of one Yasin, a resident of Basirpur, died and he threw it besides a road.. Meanwhile, Mohammad Hussain, ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Agriculture & Meat Company has finalized several trade deals with foreign companies for the export of local livestock and agri products during a visit to the international Green Week being held in Berlin. Many foreign companies, including Triposona of Spain and ...

SARGODHA - District Livestock raiding team on Sunday seized 1,400 kilogrammes of unhygienic, stale meat which was being supplied to Ramazan bazaars here. One accused was arrested while three others fled away astonishingly in the presence of the raiding officials. Livestock District Office Dr Ejaz ...

MALAKWAL - The Mandi Bahauddin assistant commissioner seized 320 kg meat of dead animals being supplied to Islamabad and arrested a butcher. Amjad Farooq, another butcher of Malakwal City market, was arrested for selling stale meat. Later, local people urged the government to take strict notice of ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Over 1000 kilograms of dead animals meat was seized by Assistant Commissioner Mandi Bahauddin Shahid Imran Marth here the other morning. According to detail, following a tip-off, AC Shahid Marth along with District Livestock Officer and a police contingent conducted a raid at ...

NANKANA SAHIB - About 3,280 kg meat of dead animals was seized and a butcher arrested on Tuesday in the jurisdiction of Mangtanwala police here. The unhygienic meat was to be supplied to Lahore. Executive District Officer (Agriculture) Mashkoor Ahmed told TheNation that a team was constituted ...

PESHAWAR (APP) The Khyber Pakthunkhwa govt has decided to set up a fish hatchery for Tarbela Dam to meet high demands of meat and protect the endangered species. The hatchery will be set up over 100 kanal land aimed at bolstering the fishery sector in Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Environment Minister KPK, ...

FIRST they told us not to eat meat because of climate change. Now scientists are telling the public to adopt a 'demitarian diet, that contains half as much meat, to stop an even more dangerous threat to the planet - nitrogen pollution. The first study in the world to calculate the total costs of ...

KARACHI - Despite extensive losses to the livestock sector caused by catastrophic floods, which hit large part of the country in the early months of current financial year, the share of meat exports in total food exports group soared to $47 million during July-October 2010, showing 49.91 percent ...

KARACHI (APP) Doctors have urged all, particularly housewives, to wear gloves while handling raw meat during the three days of Eid-ul-Azha. This is extremely important so as to avoid any unwarranted health condition due to direct exposure to raw meat, hide as well as cattle excreta. At this point ...

The veterinary doctor raided at meat shops and challaned at least three butchers for selling sub-standard meat here in Pind Dadan Khan the other day. As per details, crackdown against butchers selling sub-standard meat is in full swing in Pind Dadan Khan and Veterinary doctors Asif Raza raided at ...

District Officer Revenue Talat Mehmood raided on a illegal slaughter house in Hazara Colony and sealed it by confiscating thirty-five maund meat. Talat Mehmood raided on a butchery under the directions of Deputy Coordinator Officer (DCO) Imdad Ullah Bosaal. He had formulated 8 team to take actions ...

Veterinary officer Faisal Karim raided on illegal slaughter house in Naseerabad and wasted 350 kg sub-standard meat. On directives of DCO Rawalpindi, Veterinary officer Faisal Karim and Revenue officer Malik Shoaib raided on illegal slaughter house located in Naseerabad and wasted 350 kg ...

The majority of Rawalpindi population have stopped eating meat, as the rumors have been spread across the city that the meat which is being sold is meat of dead animals. Sources said that there are some avaricious nature people who are playing with the lives of the innocents. Now this truth and ...

A diet containing too much meat increases the risk of thrombosis or blood clotting, says a US study. The study also shows that a diet rich in fruit and vegetables reduces the risk of thrombosis, that often occurs in the deep veins in the legs. Eating fish once or more often a week reduces the risk ...

DASKA - After the meat exports, now the larger scale unabated export of the animals has also started to the Middle East and Gulf from Pakistan, due to which, the meat crisis was aggravating following the shortage of the animals in Pakistan. The owners and traders of the animals were exporting their ...

KARACHI - Health experts have urged the citizens to use plenty of water during Eidul Azha holidays and be careful while eating red meat, as more than 2 to 3 ounces of red meat in a week is medically recommended. They said that excessive use of red meat may not only cause digestive problems but ...

LAHORE - Chicken prices are going beyond Rs200 per kg because of the potential hatchery cartel - established recently and still to unearth - is selling chick of one-day at the rate of Rs 73 while it costs them round Rs 14-15. This extraordinary price hike has made the poultry meat out of reach of ...

ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed the Ministry of Livestock and Dairy Development to formulate National Livestock and Dairy Development Policy so that the meat and milk could be made affordable to a common man. Stressing the need for making short, medium and long-term ...

RESEARCHERS at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumours. Their findings, which suggest that inflammation ...