POULTRY as foodPOULTRY industrySLAUGHTERINGThe withdrawal period after treatment with microbials is established to minimize the concentration of residues in meat of treated pigs or poultry. Even Food Chain has very precise rules about sending or not animals to slaughter befo...
Most of it is rendered into animal feed for cattle, chickens, pigs and, ironically, for farm-raised salmon. It takes 30 to 50 fish caught from the ocean to raise and market one farm-raised salmon. Captain Jacques Cousteau told me not long before he died that “the oceans are dying in...
Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there.
mates had a practice run at raising 10 of our pigs on a nearby property as a learning exercise (handling everything from feed and pig moves in a mobile system to advertising, selling, butchering and delivering the meat), and donated their earnings from the experiment to the future abattoir...
Manure at feed lots is not always properly disposed of, leading to foul odors, harmful natural gases, and the potential for leaching into the groundwater, contaminating local groundwater/drinking water supplies. Water pollution is by far the largest environmental impact. Research has shown that ...
Pigs love to be scratched, rubbed and massaged. Most pigs don't like to be picked up, but will gladly lie with you and enjoy a long cuddle. What should I not feed my pot belly pig? What a domestic pig should not eat. Potbellied pigs are not being fattened up for slaughter, so the...
I know that people on the low-carb or Paleo diets don’t want to hear this, but the source of your protein really does matter. This recently publishedstudyfound anincreased risk of dying for those who consumed more animal productswho had one other lifestyle risk factor such as smoking, ph...
The introduction of the animal SBO ban in 1990 was a measure designed to limit the spread of BSE to pigs and poultry; however, it was largely disregarded. Cross-contamination of cattle feed may have been more important in the spread of BSE abroad, than the export of MBM for pigs and ...
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health threat. Because antimicrobial consumption in food-producing animals contributes to the problem, policies restricting the inappropriate or unnecessary agricultural use of antimicrobial drugs are important. Howev
colonial history. I’ve written aboutNative American women’s activismin the States before, but today I want to bring your attention toNative American Heritage Month, and a fewthings you can do to helpimprove the lives of Native Americansstill reelingfrom centuries ofslaughter, forced migration,...