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Police in Missouri said they found a trailer that was used to steal 34,000 pounds of chicken parts, but the poultry remains missing. Kansas City police said they followed a tracking device in the trailer, which was stolen along with the chicken from Arkansas-based Simmons Foods, and found it on an industrial property alongside five other trailers that investigators believe were also stolen, the Kansas City Star reported Wednesday. Investigators said one of the trailers contained snack foods,...

BOSTON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Radlo Foods is emphasizing today their intention to phase in the exclusive use of cage-free barns and is announcing their commitment to achieve this within ten years. The company is the first major egg producer in the nation to officially implement a phase-out of cage confinement systems. Dave Radlo continued, "We're proud to officially pledge to stop using cage confinement systems and implement a plan to become an exclusively cage-free company within ten...

MCCLEAN, Va., April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Improper food preparation habits account for many food illnesses, however, such habits are not just found in food processing plants or in supermarkets. They also occur in the home. One third of the participants in a Dutch study of how people prepared a chicken recipe undercooked the chicken and 70 percent showed poor sanitary practices, not changing the cutting board or the knife used with the raw chicken, not washing their hands after...

Chicken soup with matzo balls, a popular home remedy for the common cold, may help control blood pressure, Japanese researchers suggest. Ai Saiga and colleagues cite previous studies indicating that chicken breast contains collagen proteins with effects similar to ACE inhibitors -- mainstay medications for treating high blood pressure. However, chicken breast contains such small amounts of the proteins that it could not be used to develop food and medical products for high blood pressure....

With the Jewish holiday of Passover beginning at sundown next Wednesday, April 8, a staple of the traditional dinner "“"“ chicken soup with matzoh balls "“"“ may take on medicinal importance based on findings published in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.The popular home remedy for the common cold sometimes known as "Grandma's Penicillin" may have a new role alongside medication and other medical measures in fighting high blood...

West Coast-based Foster Farms Reaffirms Commitment to Never Injecting Its Fresh Chicken with Saltwater LIVINGSTON, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As leaders from the medical, health and food industries gather today at an Institute of Medicine meeting to explore strategies to reduce sodium in the American diet, West Coast poultry company Foster Farms readies an awareness campaign highlighting its natural, fresh chicken and reassuring consumers that the family-owned poultry company has...

Some residents of Chesterfield, Mo., say they should have the right to keep chickens in their backyards despite the fact they live in residential homes.Chesterfield resident Marci Davis said a city ordinance that forbids individuals with less than 2 acres of property from owning chickens is unfair to residential residents with limited room, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said Wednesday.It didn't make sense to me, she said of the ordinance passed this year.City Councilman Barry Flachsbart agrees...

A Texas veterinarian technician has discovered a new life form during a routine exam of an Attwater Prairie Chicken."I actually found it in April of 2007," said Casey Plummer, who discovered the protozoan parasite."It took almost a year to determine it was a new protozoan. When I found out, I was so excited! When they told me it had never been identified before, I was over the moon about it, really," she said during an interview with the Tyler Morning Telegraph.At just 29...

Canadian animal protection groups have raised concerns about the Vancouver City Council's vote to legalize the keeping of chickens in the city. The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Vancouver Humane Society warned that many city residents would be clueless as to how to care for hens, specifically where to buy feed and how to find a qualified vet, the Vancouver Sun reported Friday. While we sympathize with the interests of local people who want to keep...

The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced the recall of approximately 2,852 pounds of stuffed chicken breast products due to a labeling error. The FSIS said Weis Markets Inc. of Sunbury, Pa., said the chicken breast products might contain wheat, an allergen, which isn't declared on the label. The 1-pound packages are labeled Simply Delicious Chicken Cordon-Bleu and were shipped to retail stores in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Consumers with...