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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...

Roast Chicken With Lemon, Garlic And Rosemary

Roast Chicken With Lemon, Garlic And Rosemary Crisp, golden brown, roasted chicken always reminds me of family Sunday dinners. This recipe is really quite easy, and yet tastes delicious flavored with the lemons, garlic and rosemary. I often cook baby potatoes in their...

Avian Flu Virus Sent to 18 Countries in Vaccines by "Mistake"

Reported recently on nowpublic now getting a little more coverage:"If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a...

Further Bird Flu Fears

The problem doesn't seem to be going away fast. More infections and cull's every week. Some companies are resorting to moving their employees out of affected areas! Don't be supprized when Asian flights are all...

Email Warned 2 Years Ago of BC Olympic Bird Flu Danger

B.C. poultry farmers are apparently not being as concertedly vigilant as possible with laborious and costly bio-security measures necessary to contain further outbreaks and spread of the human-acquirable, deadly,...

Bird Flu Is Back

Local radio station CKNW is reporting that a turkey barn in Abbotsford, BC is in quarantine. They are reporting that the birds testing positive for bird flu antibodies.  The flock numbers approximately 50...

India Confirms New Outbreak of Bird Flu

Just days ahead of festival seasons there is bad news for Poultry business in India. Already suffering from global recession the news of new bird flu in eastern India will put a dampener on the hopes of abrisk sales for the poultry industry. Authorities in India have...

A Cacophony of Sights, Sounds and Smells - Empress Market

Text and photos: Rumana Husain  On a recent visit to the Empress Market, located on Preedy Street in Karachi's downtown Saddar area, it seemed like I was bouncing along in a stream of shoppers. One of...

Eggstrordinary! The egg that is FOUR times the normal size

"Teenage poultry farmer Dean Sambers was stunned when one of his hens laid a gigantic egg - weighing a staggering four times as much as a normal one.The 16-year-old could hardly believe his eyes when he looked in...

Mexico bans Arkansas poultry for now on bird flu

http://www.reuters.com/article/AGRLIV/idUSN2547942220080625Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:47pm EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -...

Hong Kong slaughters all poultry in prevention of Bird Flu

241 people has died from bird flu outbreaks around the world. The killing of all poultry is a prevention of an outbreak that could mutate into a easily transmistted person to person virus. " Hong Kong has...

15,000 Arkansas hens to be killed after positive bird-flu test

The slaughter of about 15,000 hens began today in northwest Arkansas, after a flock tested positive for exposure to a strain of bird flu.It makes me so sad to see the pictures of thousands of animals being...

Japan suspends imports of British poultry due to bird flu

Japan has second time suspended imports of British poultry due to concerns about bird flu in last 7 months. " Japan said Wednesday that it was suspending imports of poultry from Britain after a...

EU plan may help US poultry sales

"The European Commission has proposed accepting poultry treated with anti-bacterial chemicals, which could reopen the EU market to US poultry.The Commission set out strict conditions for the chemical treatment,...

Bird flu resurfaces in eastern India

Deadly Bird Flu has revisted in the eastern part of India and the latest outbreak takes the number of infected districts in the state to 15. WHO called this outbreak in West Bengal "India's worst", especially...

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