Traveling in Ukraine some years ago, I noted the guide often referred to "happy cows" when passing herds of bovine roaming freely on pastures beside the road.
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Experts are considering ways to speed the approval of new medicines to combat antibiotic-resistant infections, but high costs and safety concerns have complicated their efforts. Delete the scoop?
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Pork Council and Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council have released for public comment rules on pig care that would significantly curtail the use of gestation crates. Delete the scoop?
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The USDA has admitted that its own pig slaughter inspectors aren't doing their jobs properly, causing tortured deaths for pigs and contaminated meat for people. Delete the scoop?
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Following a new Environics poll, which found that 84 percent of Canadians support a nation-wide ban on the use of gestation crates for breeding pigs, Humane Society International/Canada is renewing calls for the federal and provincial governments, pork producers, and other industry stakeholders to support a nation-wide ban on the use of these intensive farm animal confinement systems. Delete the scoop?
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If you buy meat at the grocery store, you may be exposing yourself and your family to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, sometimes called “superbugs.” The use of antibiotics on factory farms, in order to bring animals to slaughter faster or to make up... Delete the scoop?
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Look to the giant ‘chicken jails’ or chicken factory farms around the world as a more likely source for emerging Bird Flu viruses, not to small peasant chicken farmers, and we might be closer to the truth... Delete the scoop?
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In the US, most samples of common store-bought meats test positive for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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British Columbia leads the country in organic, free range and free run egg consumption. Twenty-two to 30 percent of eggs consumed in the province [...] Delete the scoop?
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NEW YORK - Whether they buy "cage-free," "free range," "pasture-raised" or just "eggs," a growing number of people are concerned with where and how their food is produced. Delete the scoop?
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Data shows consumers are overly optimistic about hen housing conditions. Delete the scoop?
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A new report on the market potential for cage-free eggs predicts accelerated growth in cage-free egg sales and profits. The report was written by Oklahoma State University ag economics professors ... Delete the scoop?
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans are Salmonella poisoned by poultry every year, yet it remains legal to sell meat proven to be contaminated. Delete the scoop?
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A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.” In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed. Delete the scoop?
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Proposed changes tighten requirements on hog housing, pain control
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On April 8, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center stepped into the debate about antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Delete the scoop?
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Large livestock farms, which can generate as much waste as people in a large city, have been growing in size and number for the last 30 years. In many areas, they pose a serious threat to water supplies.
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that America’s livestock create three times as much excreta as the human population. By the agency’s reckoning, a dairy farm with 2,500 cows – which is large, but not exceptional – can generate as much waste as the people in a city the size of Miami. Delete the scoop?
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University of Wisconsin recently held symposiums regarding application of manure through pivot spray irrigator systems, the very systems used on many farms today to irrigate crops, and apply pesticides and fertilizers. Delete the scoop?
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With most samples of several common store-bought meats testing positive for antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," factory farming practices must change.
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If you’re an animal lover, you might want to pay attention, because illegal wildlife trade is endangering some of the world’s most beloved species. Delete the scoop?
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Farmers feed chickens arsenic, people eat the chickens, and then people have arsenic inside them. Activists are suing the government to try to make it care. Delete the scoop?
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Scientists have no idea what's causing the buildup of this dangerous and disgusting substance. Delete the scoop?
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Overall, 90 percent of the ground turkey that the magazine examined had one or more of the five bacteria they tested for. Delete the scoop?
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A researcher has released a report stating that if more consumers knew about hen housing, more would buy cage-free eggs. Delete the scoop?
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