Poultry and Egg Production
Baby chicks ground alive by poultry producer: activists
Sep 01, 2009 20:00 EDT
Animal rights activists on Wednesday released a film in which thousands of discarded male chicks are shown being ground up while still alive -- cruel treatment which they said is typical of the modern poultry industry.
Swine flu detected in Chilean turkeys: vets
Aug 20, 2009 20:00 EDT
An outbreak of swine flu has been detected in two turkey farms in Chile, government veterinary services in the country said.
Okla. attorney general takes on poultry industry
Aug 13, 2009 09:26 EDT
Okla. attorney general risks political career in taking on poultry industry to save watershed. It's hard to picture the crystal-clear Illinois River that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson remembers from his youth, how he could look to the bottom and spot a dime, no matter how deep the water.
Okla. attorney general takes on poultry industry
Aug 13, 2009 03:04 EDT
Okla. attorney general risks political career in taking on poultry industry to save watershed. It's hard to picture the crystal-clear Illinois River that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson remembers from his youth, how he could look to the bottom and spot a dime, no matter how deep the water.
U.S. should give Chinese chicken a chance: meat group
Jul 28, 2009 14:15 EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. meat sector on Tuesday urged Congress to lift a ban that effectively prevents Chinese poultry imports in order to avoid retaliation on their own exports to China.
Pilgrim's Pride idles chicken plants in Ala., Ga.
Jul 24, 2009 13:35 EDT
Pilgrim's Pride idles chicken processing plants in Ala., Ga.. Pilgrim's Pride Corp. said Friday it would idle two chicken processing plants that employ almost 1,000 people in Alabama and Georgia as it cuts cost while trying to emerge from bankruptcy protection.
Judge: Okla. can't seek damages in poultry suit
Jul 22, 2009 20:51 EDT
Judge: Okla. can't pursue damages against Ark. poultry firms in pollution lawsuit. Oklahoma can't pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn't name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major blow to the state.
China ups ante in US WTO dispute over poultry
Jul 19, 2009 20:00 EDT
China on Monday upped the ante in a dispute with Washington over poultry exports, calling on the World Trade Organisation to rule on its complaint against US "discriminatory" legislation.
Chicken farmers feel threatened by Oklahoma suit
Jul 13, 2009 04:41 EDT
Chicken farmers say Oklahoma lawsuit against Arkansas processors threatens their livelihood. There's a good chance the chicken you bought at the grocery store or ordered in a restaurant grew up in a dimly lit poultry house like the ones on Ray Goertz's 160-acre farm, where roughly 120,000 birds preen and peck and poop.
Foster Farms to reduce contracted growers in La.
Jul 02, 2009 08:24 EDT
Foster Farms will cut number of contracted chicken growers for plant it bought in Louisiana. A California-based poultry company that recently took over a closed Louisiana processing plant with assistance from the state says it will not extend contracts to all of the plant's former growers.
Turkey plant worker sentenced for animal cruelty
Jun 29, 2009 15:26 EDT
W.Va. turkey plant worker gets year of house arrest, fines for animal cruelty caught on video. A worker at a West Virginia turkey plant has been sentenced to a year of home confinement for stomping on a bird's head and slamming another to the ground in abuse caught on video.
Egg fight breaks out over chicken welfare law
Jun 19, 2009 16:32 EDT
Egg fight breaks out over California chicken welfare law requiring bigger digs for hens. By one of the biggest margins in California's rich initiative history, voters decreed last year that egg-laying hens must be able to stretch their wings without touching another bird or a cage wall.
Ark. city sues Pilgrim's Pride over idled plant
Jun 01, 2009 21:37 EDT
Ark city sues Pilgrim's Pride for $28M over idled plant, accuses company of price manipulation. The city of Clinton sued Pilgrim's Pride Corp. for $28.5 million in federal court on Monday, accusing the poultry processor of potentially turning the city into a ghost town by idling its plant there.
Pilgrim's Pride 2Q loss narrows as costs drop
May 07, 2009 18:40 EDT
Chicken producer Pilgrim's Pride, now in bankruptcy, posts narrower 2nd-quarter loss. Chicken producer Pilgrim's Pride Corp., which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said Thursday its second-quarter loss narrowed as costs declined in its chicken business.
Swine Flu Hits Pork Farming, Airline ADRs
Apr 27, 2009 17:20 EDT
An international crisis like the swine flu outbreak impacts foreign stocks in much the same way as it would a U.S. company. The difference may be the swings' magnitudes.
Swine Flu Hits Pork Farming, Airline ADRs
Apr 27, 2009 11:43 EDT
An international crisis like the swine flu outbreak impacts foreign stocks in much the same way as it would a U.S. company. The difference may be the swings' magnitudes.
A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds
Apr 24, 2009 04:17 EDT
The sky falls on America's old-fashioned purebred chickens; breeding group tries to save them. At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.
A chicken coup: Group seeks to protect rare breeds
Apr 24, 2009 03:12 EDT
The sky falls on America's old-fashioned purebred chickens; breeding group tries to save them. At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.
China hauls US to WTO over poultry
Apr 16, 2009 20:00 EDT
China on Friday lodged filed a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over "discriminatory" US legislation against Chinese poultry imports.
Bangladesh slaughters 2,300 birds over avian flu
Apr 16, 2009 20:00 EDT
Bangladesh has culled 2,300 chickens this week, an official said Friday, as the impoverished country tries to contain a new outbreak of avian flu.
