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A heat wave that has pushed temperatures well over 100 degrees has killed tens of thousands of turkeys and chickens in Kansas and North Carolina and left farmers across the lower part of the country struggling to cool off their flocks.
Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had spent much of his adult life raising chickens, cows and three children.
If Oklahoma's new attorney general or governor decide to drop a lawsuit accusing poultry companies of pollution, the five-year case will be picked up by other interested parties, the state's outgoing attorney general predicted.
State records show that employees from several Arkansas poultry companies sued by Oklahoma over environmental pollution have given thousands of dollars to the Republican candidate for attorney general, which his opponent said Thursday creates a conflict of interest.
The Obama administration received its first rebuke from the World Trade Organization on Wednesday as a three-member panel declared that an American ban on Chinese poultry is illegal.
Ellen Thompson remembers the first time she came to the Illinois River in 2006 to kayak: She saw cattle — and their droppings — alongside the river and heard tales that the waters were infested with poultry manure.
As more states move to ban restrictive livestock cages, the campaign to free egg-laying hens from cramped cages and shift them to pens animal rights advocates call more humane could be poised to unintentionally boost deaths among those birds.
Scientists and egg producers say more chickens could die if farmers move egg-laying hens from tiny cages with 10 or fewer birds to open pens than can hold dozens.
Motivated by greed, several Arkansas poultry companies cut corners when getting rid of thousands of tons of waste and allowed it to pollute a sensitive watershed, an attorney for the state argued Thursday.
A study by the state of Oklahoma showing phosphorous pollution in a sensitive watershed was incomplete, rife with errors and "not scientifically defensible," a scientist testified Thursday in federal court.
An environmental engineer says using bird manure as a crop fertilizer does not affect the Illinois River or Lake Tenkiller to "any significant extent."
Oklahoma's pollution case against the Arkansas poultry industry suffered another setback Wednesday, when a judge blocked the state from introducing soil test records that reportedly showed high phosphorus levels at 50 chicken farms.
The Indiana State Poultry Association has donated more than 145,000 pounds of eggs, chicken, turkey and duck to food pantries across the state.
One of the most closely watched environmental cases in years has turned into legal purgatory as the trial of Oklahoma's lawsuit against the Arkansas poultry industry is marred by delays and squabbling attorneys.
A federal judge scolded the 30-some attorneys on Oklahoma's pollution case against the Arkansas poultry industry Thursday, accusing them of bombarding him with "thousands" of documents as the bench trial dragged into its 25th day.
A scientist testified that runoff from fields spread with poultry manure accounted for a major portion of phosphorus pollution in a sensitive northeastern Oklahoma watershed.
A Cargill executive testified Thursday that he did not check to see if company farmers were following an environmental handbook he helped compile in 2002 that warned them not to spread excess chicken manure on their land because the runoff could pollute area water.
About 30,000 fewer people floated in the Illinois River watershed in 2007 compared with two years earlier, a professor testified Tuesday, suggesting that decades of chicken manure pollution may have made one of the state's top recreational areas less attractive to the public.
A South Carolina poultry plant raided by immigration agents last year has agreed to change its hiring practices to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
A former Arkansas poultry company executive testified Thursday that he wrote a memo in 2005 warning of the environmental dangers of spreading too much chicken waste on farmland in certain areas.
Arkansas poultry companies claimed Wednesday that an Oklahoma agency could have gone to court long ago to enforce water quality standards in a sensitive watershed, but failed to do so until 2005, when it filed a federal lawsuit blaming the companies for pollution there.
Attorneys for Oklahoma and the Arkansas poultry industry traded barbs in federal court Thursday, disputing whether the companies knew for decades that over-application of chicken waste on farmland was polluting the Illinois River watershed.
David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years.
New USDA Labeling Requirements for Meat and PoultryAs of March 1, most meat and poultry products in the U.S. will have nutrition labels to provides consumers with information to help make healthy choices.
Featherless ChickenAn Israeli geneticist, Avigdor Cahaner, created the world’s first featherless chicken at the genetics faculty at the Rehovot Agronomy Institute near Tel Aviv, Israel.
Organic farms harbor less antibiotic-resistant bacteria Poultry farms that use organic methods that don’t involve antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria that can potentially spread to human, according to a new study lead by the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health. Antibiotic-re …
FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic, Compliments of PfizerAfter years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses.
CDC Features - Risk of Human Salmonella Infections from Live Baby PoultryPeep, chirp, quack! Live baby poultry, such as chicks, ducklings, goslings, and baby turkeys, often carry harmful germs called Salmonella.
1 In 4 Supermarket Meat Samples Tainted With Drug-Resistant Bacteria : Shots - Health Blog : NPRRetail meat now has a new threat: drug-resistant Staph.
Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria Found in Meat, Poultry Nationwide - US News and World ReportFRIDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Meat and poultry sold in the United States is widely contaminated with drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause serious illnesses in humans, a new study contends.
'Drug-resistant Bacteria': Found in Half of U.S. MeatHere comes the expensive veggies instead of beef, pork, and poultry. I don't know about just veggies, getting expensive now. But, don't really want to get Staph either. Just cook that sucker until it appears barbecued!
Nearly half of US meat tainted with drug-resistant bacteria, study suggests. Updated: 10:20 AM, April 15, 2011PHOENIX -- There may be scores of drug-resistant bacteria lurking in your grocery meat aisle.
New Rules Imposed On "Mexican Poultry"Phoenix - Just when I was thinking about having some good chicken for dinner, here comes the ax. Whoops!! This also means my deli-sliced chicken sandwich and hard-boiled eggs for lunch hits the garbage disposal, guess I'm on a diet.
Poultry industry smothers immigrant farmers and abuses antibiotics The U.S. meat industry offers some of the biggest bargains you can find: stuff like "boneless skinless chicken breasts" for just two bucks a pound; or a "Crispy Chicken Sandwich" for a dollar.
Maremma Guard Dogs with PoultryThe case study of the producer using Maremma Dogs described was not selected randomly but through the author being told about her. Ms E is a free range egg (chicken) producer using Maremmas Dogs to protect the poultry.
These GOP Budget Cuts Could Make You Puke, If Not Worse...Would you like some salmonella with those budget cuts? If Republicans have their way, food safety could fall casualty to the congressional budget-cutting fervor.
Chickens are the most consumed meat products in the world. They are inexpensive to raise. Chickens will eat a large variety of food and scraps.
Disputed adoption gets new hearingYou don't need to read the 46-page Missouri Supreme Court decision to determine that this Guatemalan mother's due process & maternal rights were infringed upon: it's common sense!
(Germany) Bild-online headlines - translated "This bloke adulterated poison-fat in our meal"Harles & Jentzsch's business manager, Siegfried Sievert, responsible for a 12-people production facility for animal feeding stuff (annual turnover 12 million euros ($16m) ) has been in public and law enforcement's focus due to the latest food scandal over 'dioxine eggs'.
The year 2011 is just 3 days old, and Germany's agrarian food industry has stumbled into its first egg and poultry scandal of the year. This time, it's the ultra-toxins, dioxines, found in eggs and poultry.
Chicken Sweaters: Kindly Brits Knit for Needy BirdsIn most places, a featherless chicken soon gets eaten. In England, it gets a sweater. For the past several months, a small group of knitters in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, have been knitting sweaters for featherless hens rescued from British poultry farms.
Under-processed Canned Meat and Poultry RecalledIn what is the 58th recall of the year involving meat and poultry, just over 12,000 pounds of under-processed meat and poultry products were recalled late Thursday by Seward, IL-based Eickman's Processing.
Poultry Festival Chicken Cookers PrepareCENTER, TX – The Annual Chicken Cooking Contest is this Wednesday, September 29, immediately following the Doo Dah Parade on the historic downtown Center square.
“Suddenly some of the steam begins to advance, and, peering through it, you discern Aunt Elizabeth, Ona's stepmother – Teta Elzbieta, as they call her – bearing aloft a great platter of stewed duck.
Cloned Meat May Already Have Invaded Our Food SupplyWhen Canadian agricultural leaders asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week after a scandal about unlabeled clone products in Europe if "cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply," he said, "I can't say today that I can answer your q …
Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culpritATLANTA -- Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday.
82 Year Old Man Is King Of Cock FightersJeffcoat rented out his 68-acre property for cockfighting rings over the course of two decades and was the one who set the rules for how the cockfights would go. The cockfighting rings resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 roosters.
You go to the market in most major cities today and the chicken waiting there for you in their shrink wrapped Styrofoam trays and plastic bags are nothing like they used to be. To begin with, they’re huge. Chickens haven’t been this big since the Cretaceous period.
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