For professing to love and protect animals, members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sure kill a lot of them. The group has euthanized 38,000 animals since 1998.
Minnesota producers are considering a new PRRS/PED proposal that will help them learn more about both diseases. It would be a voluntary program in cooperation with the Minnesota Board of Animal Health.
San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to require grocers with 25 stores or more to report annually the use of antibiotics in the raw meat and poultry they sell.
South Korea has confirmed a case of foot and mouth disease at a hog farm, the country’s first discovery since February last year, its agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
Yet another incident in which consumers — gasp! — witnessed workers moving meat that hadn’t been portioned and packaged provokes more outrage . . . but (finally!) some pushback.
People have long assumed that poultry, with lower levels of saturated fatty acids compared with most red meats, would contribute less to cholesterol levels and other factors associated with cardiovascular disease.