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Minister scolds animal rights activists

Norway's agriculture minister claims the country's meat industry has no reason to be ashamed and that rising criticism of it can be taken out...

State prosecutor orders probe of abusive farmers

Norway's top state prosecuting agency (Riksadvokaten) has ordered a preliminary probe into whether farmers raising pigs for the pork industry have  knowingly violated the country's...

Farmer shoots wolf, police investigate

A police investigation is underway in Hedmark, the southeastern Norwegian county where farmers feel most threatened by wolves, after a local sheep rancher shot...

Meat co-op hit by consumer warning

Norway's consumer protection authority has warned the country's largest meat and poultry producer and market regulator, Nortura, that it appears to have violated marketing...

Pork industry’s secrets revealed

Norwegian farmers' carefully cultivated image of taking good care of their animals in almost idyllic settings was shattered Wednesday night. An NRK documentary revealed...

Heads roll at food safety authority

The head of Norway's state regulatory agency in charge of animal- and food safety (Mattilsynet) resigned Friday, in the midst of a rising scandal. Harald Gjein's...

Sheep delivered seven lambs

Sheep rancher Øystein Knutsen said he could hardly believe it when one of his ewes gave birth Easter Sunday morning to no less than...

Man charged with poisoning chimpanzee

A Norwegian man in his 40s with a criminal record has admitted to throwing bottles filled with amphetamine-laced drinks into the chimpanzee enclosure at...

Police probe attempt to poison wolves

Someone has tried to poison Norway's largest wolf pack, known as Kynnareviret, which roams in an area between Våler and Åsnes in Hedmark County....

Musk ox shot in Dovre

Seven of Norway's Arctic musk ox that wander around the mountains of Dovre were shot in a single day this week, part of an...
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