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- Swiss court rules on noisy chicken
- GENEVA AFP — A Swiss court has ordered that a chicken be locked up in a soundproof box every night so its neighbours can get a good night's sleep, the ATS news agency reported Friday. The court at Ticino in southern Switzerland even stipulated that the box, in which...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Restless roosters rile Swazi authorities
- MBABANE AFP — Authorities in Swaziland's capital Mbabane have launched a crackdown on cockerels amid a surge in chicken-breeding that is disturbing the sleep of the city's residents, a spokesman said Wednesday. Speaking to AFP, Mbabane Municipal spokesman Bongani Dlamini said authorities would begin to enforce a 40-year-old law...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- SKorea steps up fight against worst bird flu outbreak
- SEOUL AFP — South Korea is to disinfect all poultry farms nationwide to combat its worst outbreak of bird flu, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. In the capital Seoul, all 15,000 chickens, ducks and other fowl -- including pet birds in school aviaries -- have been culled after a...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- DNA tells big story of T.rex's link to chickens
- WASHINGTON AFP — It may seem unfathomable, but DNA testing has shown the towering Tyrannasaurus rex's closest living animal relatives include the humble chicken, a new study has found. The research published this week in the journal Science marked "the first use of molecular data to place a non-avian...
- Research articles 2008-04-25
- Federal judge tells Tyson to stop making antibiotic claims
- In an interim win for Salisbury-based Perdue Farms Inc., a federal judge has ordered Tyson Foods Inc. to stop advertising that its chicken products are raised without antibiotics. The preliminary injunction will last while Perdue's lawsuit is in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. It applies to print, broadcast...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- Outbreaks prompt scrutiny of food labeling
- Federal food-safety officials are considering whether labels on some frozen chicken products adequately inform consumers that the chicken is raw and provide sufficient cooking instructions. Stuffed chicken entrees -- which look cooked because they're breaded and prebrowned so that the breading sticks -- are blamed for...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Salisbury-based Perdue Farms can proceed with lawsuit over Tyson ads
- Salisbury-based Perdue Farms Inc. can proceed with its false- advertising suit against competitor Tyson Farms Inc., a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett denied Tyson's motion to dismiss the suit, and promised to rule on Perdue's motion for a preliminary injunction within a week....
- Research articles 2008-04-11
- Tyson cooked products plant axed
- SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS: Meat processor Tyson Foods will close its cooked products plant in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in April with the loss of 400 jobs. The increased popularity of hot, rotisserie chicken in retail delis had reduced demand for its refrigerated oven-roasted chicken, the company said. "We've mode the difficult decision...
- Research articles 2008-03-08
- All Draper Valley Farms Chickens Are Now Raised Without Antibiotics or Animal By-Products, 100% Vegetarian Fed
- MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- Meeting the needs of a consumer who is looking beyond the standard definition of "natural" chicken, Draper Valley Farms Natural Chicken is now being raised to a higher standard. This Pacific Northwest Company is now adhering to a stricter criterion with its products as Draper Valley...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- India steps up culling, calls for calm as bird flu spreads
- KOLKATA AFP — India's West Bengal state said on Monday that it was slaughtering chickens on a "war footing" as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of 80 million people. The disease has now been found in 13 of 19 districts in the eastern state,...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- Chicken feast in India despite bird flu disaster warning
- MARGRAM, India AFP — Villagers in eastern India were buying up cheap chicken on Tuesday despite authorities warning of an impending bird flu disaster and probing whether the country may have its first cases of human infection. West Bengal state's animal resources minister Anisur Rahaman said officials were "determined...
- Research articles 2008-01-22
- India admits falling behind in bird flu battle
- MARGRAM, India AFP — India's West Bengal admitted on Wednesday it was falling behind in its battle against bird flu as the virus spread to more than half the densely populated state. Despite reinforcements from neighbouring states, at least 1,000 more vets and doctors were needed to help fight...
- Research articles 2008-01-22
- Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Leader Louis Lantner on Progress in Iraq.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 January 2008-US Department of State: Provincial Reconstruction Team PRT Leader Louis Lantner on Progress in IraqC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16012008 MR. DUCKWORTH: Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming out. We are here to...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Bird flu cull begins in eastern India
- KOLKATA, India AFP — Health officials in eastern India began the slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens Wednesday, a day after New Delhi confirmed an outbreak of the deadly avian flu in the region. Anisur Rahaman, animal resources minister of West Bengal state, told AFP that 55 rapid...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Protest sex dolls seized in Philippines: rights group
- MANILA AFP — Customs officials in the Philippines have seized inflatable sex dolls meant to be used for an international campaign against animal cruelty, an animal rights group said Thursday. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA said it had planned to use the sex toys as...
- Research articles 2007-12-26
- New bird flu case in Poland: minister
- WARSAW AFP — Poland was hit by a fourth case of deadly H5N1 bird flu Monday when the disease was discovered at a poultry farm, the agriculture minister confirmed. "The new case was discovered in the village of Saldowo, near to Biezun, central Poland close to other recent cases,"...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- Tyson still committed to no-antibiotics chicken
- After months of discussion with the U.S. Agriculture Department over the labeling of its fresh chickens as "raised without antibiotics," the federal agency said Tyson Foods Inc. must change the labels. But Tyson said it stands by the truthfulness of its labels and remains committed to its Raised Without...
- Research articles 2007-11-26
- Origen Therapeutics Receives $2 Million ATP Grant to Advance Technology for Discovery and Production of Human Polyclonal Antibodies from Transgenic Chickens
- Potential for Improved Antibody Therapies Against Cancer and Infectious Diseases Including Biodefense Threats BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Origen Therapeutics today announced that the company has been awarded an Advanced Technology Program ATP grant totaling $2 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, a division of the U.S....
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- Bethlehem police nab Israeli with 900 chickens
- BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP — Palestinian police on Tuesday arrested an Israeli trying to sell 900 chickens reared by Jewish settlers and impounded the fowl in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Officers picked up the man and the chickens he was allegedly trying to sell in defiance of...
- Research articles 2007-09-25
- Mass culling at India bird flu farm
- GUWAHATI, India AFP — Indian authorities Thursday continued to cull tens of thousands of chickens in the country's remote northeast after the government reported an outbreak of bird flu. The culling was carried out in an area within a five-kilometre (three-mile) radius from a farm in the state of...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
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