Hormel Gestation Crates: Spam Maker To (Mostly) Eliminate Cruel Practice By 2017

This is great news from Hormel. This decision brings us closer to the day when the cruel confinement of pigs in gestation crates will be a bygone era for the entire pork industry. We thank Hormel for making this decision and urge the company to also apply it to any contract pig breeders it may use.

Spam Maker To Eliminate Cruel Practice

KHQ.COM - Riding the coattails of Smithfield Food's announcement to stop using gestation crates by 2017, Hormel, the makers of SPAM, have followed suit. Hormel plans to eliminate most gestation crates also by 2017.

Maldon Chronicle published Paralympian's success is inspiration to Maldon Plume School's...

PUPILS from the Plume School in Maldon were encouraged to be the best they can be this week during a visit from local paralympian...

Fire inside stone tower in Great Yarmouth

Firefighters have tackled a blaze in a stone tower on the old town wall in Great Yarmouth.

Giving the drummer some (more)

I'm still working through crates of records that had been in storage for a while, still rediscovering old gems. And without realising that a theme was emerging, I started listening to a bunch of solo albums by drummers.