Tag: poultry
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Beef, Food Safety and Smart Choices
This post is brought to you by a personal experience that I remembered because I was wide awake way too late at night due to Fort Riley dropping bombs on my doorstep. That didn’t sound right but it was loud and I was awake. On to the story – the date is February 15, 2011…
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Another One Bites the Gestation Crate Dust
While the rest of the U.S. is abuzz about a case of BSE being found in California – something I am not scared about at all, since I know the safety of our food supply (more on that here) – I am more concerned about this recent piece of news. Burger King becomes first US…
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HSUS and United Egg Producers are Uniting
If you thought you smelled ballot initiatives in the air – you were right. The United Egg Producers and HSUS have decided to work together to achieve, through a federal legislative initiative, the following objectives: — Require a moratorium at the end of 2011 on new construction of unenrichable battery cages — small, cramped, cages…
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Agvocacy Down Under – Sheep, Swine and Poultry
There are way more sheep here than people – 3.5X as many sheep. In June 2008, the sheep population was 80 million while the current population of Australians is 22.5 million people. Australians eat a lot of sheepmeat – there is far more sheepmeat in the supermarket than either pork or chicken. Beef still reigns supreme, at least on…
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Summatime and the Grilling is Easy
I apologize blogging world for being gone for so long. I realized it has been almost TWO WEEKS since my last post, but I swear that won’t happen again. After this, look for a post about wildlife in South Africa and an update on the Angel Food Cake saga! Anywho, it’s that time of the…