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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		Project Calf, Antibiotics for Sheep, Climate Change
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:13:28
	Publish Date:		2019-02-01 00:00:00
	Description:		Veganuary has finished, February has begun, and the debate between vegans and farmers isn't over... There's been a flurry of social media activity this week, around the launch of a new anti-dairy campaign. Project Calf is a vegan group, that says its aim is to expose "the atrocities of the dairy industry through citizen journalism, peaceful protesting and outreach". Anna Hill speaks to Jess from Project Calf about what they're hoping to achieve and how - ahead of Farming Today's focus on the dairy sector, all next week. Climate change is a 'Recipe for Disaster' for UK fruit and veg growers, according to a new report by the Priestley International Centre for Climate and The Climate Coalition - a group of more than 130 organisations including the National Trust and the RSPB, committed to addressing climate change. It predicts longer and more intense heatwaves, and record-breaking rainfall - all of which could devastate the country's horticulture sector... Anna finds out more from report author Tom Levitt, and gets the horticultural perspective from Mark Bowyer: general manager of salads and herbs grower Herbfresh in Surrey. Antibiotic resistance is a challenges for doctors and farmers alike. One answer is to reduce the amount of antibiotics used, by both humans and the animals that end up in the food chain. Mark and Vicky Candy have a flock of more than a thousand sheep near Chippenham in Wiltshire - and have recently introduced changes to reduce their antibiotic usage. Rebecca Rooney went to meet them. Presented by Anna Hill, produced by Lucy Taylor.
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