Tag: chicken
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Article Criticizes “Extreme Breeding” in Agricultural Production
A recent Alternet.org article titled “23 Gallons a Day from One Cow? Industrial Agriculture Engaged in Extreme Breeding,” has questioned the longstanding practice of selectively breeding livestock to produce animals that are highly efficient and productive. While acknowledging that “breeding animals to exaggerate traits humans find useful is hardly new,” author Jill Richardson claims that…
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Australian Court Rules “Free to Roam” Chicken Producer Claims False
A federal court in Australia has determined that processors advertising their chickens as “free to roam” on packaging and in advertisements and publications were liable to mislead the public as to the nature and characteristics of the product. Australian Competition & Consumer Comm’n v. Turi Foods Pty. Ltd., (No. 4) [2013] FCA 665 (Fed. Ct.…
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California Targets Sale of “Plumped” Poultry in State Buildings
California Assembly Member Ian Calderon (D-Whittier) has introduced a bill (A.B. 682) that “would prohibit chicken or turkey sold in any state-owned or state-leased building at food concessions and cafeterias from being ‘plumped’ in any way.” The legislation defines “plumped” poultry as any such product injected with “saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract, or some combination…
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WTO Rules Against U.S. Ban on Chinese Poultry
A World Trade Organization (WTO) panel has determined that the United States has violated its trade obligations by refusing to allow Chinese chicken parts into the U.S. market, an action that was apparently taken in a 2009 federal spending bill that denied the use of any U.S. Department of Agriculture funding to establish or implement…
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California Court Allows Grilled Chicken Prop. 65 Labeling Suit to Proceed
A California appellate court has reversed a summary judgment order that terminated litigation involving claims that chain restaurants violated Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) by selling grilled chicken products to consumers without appropriate warnings about carcinogens created by the cooking process. Physicians Comm. for Responsible Med. v. McDonald’s Corp., No. B218089 (Cal. Ct. App., decided August 12,…
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Russia and U.S. Reach Agreement on Poultry Exports
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a trade agreement with Russia that ends a January 2010 ban on chlorine-treated poultry from the United States. In exchange for lifting the ban, USDA has pledged to post on its website information about “which disinfectants/pathogen reductions treatments are known to be approved by Russia for use…
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Agencies Plan Two Meetings on Food Safety Progress
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced two public meetings with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to hear stakeholder input on collective efforts to reduce illness, harm and death from contaminated food. Extensions of an initial workshop held…
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Bolivian President Blames Baldness, “Deviance” on Hormones in Poultry
Bolivian President Evo Morales attracted international media attention when he publicly linked “deviances in being men” on hormones once used to raise chickens. Speaking at the World People’s Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Morales reportedly claimed that “the chicken we eat is loaded with female hormones. So, when men eat…