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LIVE OAK, Fla., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a move aimed at appealing to Florida customers who prefer locally grown products, Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (NYSE: PPC), in partnership with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is introducing "Fresh from Florida" chicken at several leading retailers in the Sunshine State. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100610/DA18339LOGO) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100610/DA18339LOGO) All "Fresh...
WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Competition is alive and well in the broiler chicken industry and benefits chicken farmers, poultry companies, and consumers, according to a study of the industry released here today. "On the national scale, it is the overall conclusion of this study that the chicken industry is a competitive and thriving sector," wrote Dr. Thomas Elam, an agricultural economist and president of FarmEcon LLC. "Intense competition among chicken companies leads...
WASHINGTON, May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a letter to Perdue CEO Jim Perdue released today, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) President Cathy Liss demanded that the company end its use of a misleading label claiming that certain of its chicken products are 'Humanely Raised' and 'Raised Cage Free.' This February, Perdue introduced new product packaging bearing these claims for release in grocery stores. AWI asserts that the 'Humanely Raised' label misleads consumers about how Perdue...
WASHINGTON, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- American consumers continue to buy "regular" eggs over cage-free eggs by a margin of 40-to-1, according to data from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) which tracks checkout scanner data from 34,000 grocery, drug and mass merchandiser stores across the U.S. "Regular" eggs produced in traditional cage housing systems continued to be the most popular eggs among supermarket shoppers, accounting for 92 percent of the 21 billion eggs bought at retail last year,...
CHELSEA, Mass., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- al fresco - America's #1 chicken sausage and recently named one of Family Circle's Best Products of 2010 - today unveiled a new brand look and feel including a new logo, advertising campaign, redesigned product packaging and a refreshed website. The new ad campaign, created by The VIA Group, features delicious, healthy recipes, created by al fresco's Executive Chef, Susanna Tolini. The new campaign will run in national magazines and on top food...
Group urges people to "Give a Cluck for Chickens - Go Vegan!" MACHIPONGO, Va., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- May is International Respect for Chickens Month and May 4 is International Respect for Chickens Day. United Poultry Concerns (UPC) launched International Respect for Chickens Day in 2005 to celebrate chickens and protest the bleakness of their lives in farming operations. This year, International Respect for Chickens Day is on dramatic display in the Washington DC Metro Area,...
A Virginia Tech animal scientist, who in 1957 began breeding lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens based on their juvenile body weight, has provided scientists around the world with a model for exploring the molecular basis of traits like growth and reproduction "“ traits that molded the red jungle fowl into a farm animal roughly 8,000 years ago.Paul Siegel, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Animal and Poultry Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,...
Modern-day Chinese pigs are directly descended from ancient pigs which were the first to be domesticated in the region 10,000 years ago, a new archaeological and genetic study has revealed.An international team of researchers, led by Durham University (UK) and the China Agricultural University, in Beijing, say their findings suggest a difference between patterns of early domestication and movement of pigs in Europe and parts of East Asia.The research, published today (Monday, April 19) in the...
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 13, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published guidance for small egg producers to help them comply with a 2009 federal egg safety regulation designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090824/FDALOGO) Entitled "Guidance for Industry: Prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis in Shell Eggs During Production,...
Eggs from chickens that consumed extremely high levels of melamine in their feed still did not contain levels of the potentially toxic contaminant that exceeded U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits. That was the conclusion of the first study to check on the effects of melamine-contaminated feed in laying hens. It appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication.Liying Zhang and colleagues note that melamine, which is used to make certain plastics,...
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The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large gamebird, one of a number of species of turkey (Galliformes). Adults have a bluish featherless small head, a red throat, long legs and a dark body. They have a long dark fan-shaped tail. Their wings are a glossy bronze. As with many other species of the Galliformes, they exhibit strong sexual dimorphism - males have red wattles on the throat and neck and are significantly larger than females. Their breeding habitat is found in wooded...
