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Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (VIVA) slams Tesco for meat-fuel project in Widnes

Aug 10 2009 by Adrian Short, Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

ANIMAL rights campaigners have slammed a supermarket giant for combusting meat at a Widnes rendering plant.

Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (VIVA) claimed Tesco is using green credentials to justify sending unsold meat to the Granox plant to produce energy.

A Viva spokesman said that “greed and indifference” means an excess of animals are killed, and that vegetarians would be horrified to learn that household energy came from a “macabre” process.

Full story in Thursday’s Weekly News.

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