Hamburg says FDA should be in preventive mode, not reactionary

I thought the FDA was intended to prevent contamination and bad food and bad drugs while promoting good things. According to Margaret Hamburg they were just mopping up. Chicken farmers have been brutalizing the...

Consumers demand higher welfare for chickens

More than two years after chicken welfare first hit the headlines with high profile campaigns by Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, new research reveals that people are choosing to buy more...

Free range is the way forward

By Faye Patrick: I was shocked when I heard in the news about inspectors finding out that a number of eggs in Derbyshire, England are being sold as free range when they are in fact from battery hens. Before my family and I had chickens I noticed the different prices of the...

Bald chickens get jumpers knitted for them

Rescued battery hens that have lost their feathers have been given jumpers by a knitting club to keep themselves warm. One hen in particular only had eyebrows left, but given the right care and jumpers the hens...

Study Suggests Chickens Are Being Infected by 'Human' Bacteria

Scientists from The Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland have released findings that strains of bacteria, Staphylococcus Aureus (mainly the MRSA sub-type) known in humans has moved onto chickens.They believe it may have happened, not in that last few years (that's what I...

Tesco gets into DIY food

This is really smart marketing. "Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, is embracing the recession-inspired trend to "grow your own" produce by offering allotment spaces to rent in the U.K and selling live...

Your Food Has Been Lying to You

Do you know where your food comes from?  If you're like most people the answer is likely 'no'.  The makers of Food Inc. are hoping to educate you. "Bigger-breasted chickens fattened artificially. New...

Buying Free Range Eggs? What Does "Free Range" Mean?

There is an encouraging trend in hen's egg buying these days.  Many institutions are moving towards selling only eggs from non-caged or battery birds.  California has made the move to gradually phase out...

Will Vancouver allow residents to keep backyard chickens?

"Victorians do it. New Yorkers do it. Seattleites do it. Will Vancouver be the next city to allow chickens to roost in its backyards? Tomorrow (January 14), the Vancouver Food Policy Council will consider a motion...

Giants and Dwarfs at Pennsylvania Farm Show

One of the largest farm shows in the United States is held in mid-January at the Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The huge indoor facility  is large by almost any measure. It...

Hong Kong to cull 80,000 chickens after H5 outbreak

"Hong Kong health authorities raised the city's avian flu alert to "serious" on Tuesday after some chickens at a farm were confirmed to have the H5 birdflu virus, prompting the cull of 80,000 chickens.The H5...

Brooklyn Chicken Farmers

We will be seeing more of this in the future."For Brooklyn real-estate agent Maria Mackin, the obsession started five years ago, on a trip to Pennsylvania Amish country. She, her husband and three children—now...

Chicken Power!

Chicken is one of my favorite meats. It's easy to cook, low fat, and now it's powering over 90,000 homes in the Netherlands. Seems as though the parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy has come up...

Frozen chickens security tagged to deter shoplifters

When even the cheapest chickens are security tagged to stop shoplifters stealing them then we really must be in an economic trough. This news in the same week that Gordon Brown tells us that Brits must stop...

RED ALERT!! Google must divulge YouTube log

"Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier...

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