Lifestyle Magazine

The horrific conditions that many pigs and piglets are forced to live in; is enough to put many people off the thought of eating pork. MPs are now demanding that all pork products should be labelled to inform people of where the pork came from and thereby what conditions that they lived in.

For many years, Britain has had a ban in place, ensuring that the living conditions of pigs are decent, and that they are not allowed to be stored away in cramped conditions. Almost seventy percent of all pork products however are imported every year, meaning that most of the pork that we eat is from pigs that have had a horrific existence. For many of these poor creatures, their existence consists of being locked in a cramped room being fattened up for slaughter and never once seeing any daylight. For many people this thought will be enough to ensure that they only buy British pork products, where you can safely know that the pigs have had a decent life leading up to their slaughter. The new food labels would include information such as the country where the pork originated, and how they were reared.

Barack Obama and his legislators are preparing to take action against global warming by cutting emissions and pollution. The elected American president is preparing two new bills that will encourage the use of renewable energies in the country. The two bills will be introduced as soon as Obama takes office in January, in the hope to kick-start his position on the environment.

The first bill will provide over ten billion pounds to encourage the advance in renewable energy in place of the polluting energy sources used today. The second bill will begin the set-up of a system of tradable emission permits used to fight against global warming. Barack Obama has already started on his green campaign by planning the creation of future green jobs. The elected president hopes to create 2.5 million new jobs by building wind farms, making new green vehicles, manufacturing solar panels and modernising much of the country’s infrastructure.

The two new energy bills are expected to get passed very quickly, as the need for action is now immense. Plans to develop carbon capture and storage facilities to remove emissions are also in order. Obama wishes to reduce carbon emissions to the same levels as were present in the 90’s, and he wishes to do this by 2020.