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Tag Archives: chicken
Chicken feed without antibiotics or growth hormones
Robert Carter farms chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) in California. He’s not impressed by feed additives which make the birds grow fast. This is no way to produce meat that’s healthy for people to eat, says Mr Carter. So he invented … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged America, antibiotic, biotechnology, bird, chicken, development, Europe, farmer, feed, feed additive, finance, food safety, genetic modification, growth promotion, hormone, livestock, meat, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, vertebrate
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No seeds, no future
Biowatch South Africa shows us a film about agroecology and food sovereignty. ‘We accept maize seeds from the Department of Agriculture, but we don’t plant those GM seeds. We feed them to chickens.’
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged Africa, agroecology, biotechnology, bird, chicken, corn, crop, crop variety, development, family farm, feed, food, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, livestock, local variety, maize, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poultry, seed, seedbank, smallholder, subsistence, trade, tradition, vegetable, vegetable variety, vertebrate
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Achievements and controversy surrounding rice, vitamins, and GM crops
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world’s great staple foods. I recommend Oryza for information about rice. For example, here’s an Oryza article about rice, vitamins, and GM crops.
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged beriberi, biotechnology, bird, breeding, brown rice, chicken, crop variety, development, disease, food processing, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, history, knowledge, lab animal, nutrition, plant_monocot, poultry, research, rice, staple food, vertebrate, Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin E
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Antibiotic Use in Chickens: Responsible for Hundreds of Human Deaths?
Originally posted on Paper to Use:
In the long back and forth between science and agriculture over the source of antibiotic resistance in humans — Due to antibiotic overuse on farms, or in human medicine? — one question has been…
Posted in agriculture, human health
Tagged antibiotic, antibiotic resistance, chicken, evolution, human, livestock, poultry
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Opinions on trade across the Pond
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a big deal. It’s a big deal for everybody who relies on the land and sea on either side of the Pond. In this connected world, that means the TTIP is a … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, money and trade
Tagged America, antibiotic, BASF, biotechnology, bird, chicken, chlorine, crop, Europe, European Food Safety Authority, feed, feed additive, food safety, genetic modification, hormone, law, livestock, mammal, meat, Monsanto, pig, politics, ractopamine, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, vertebrate
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Why not feed insects to other livestock?
Here in Britain, our Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) coordinates PROteINSECT. This is about farming insects (entomoculture) as a source of protein for animal feed. FERA is part of our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). I’m … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged aquaculture, arthropod, bird, black soldier fly, chicken, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, egg, entomoculture, entomophagy, feed, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Environment Research Agency, food safety, food waste, housefly, insect, International Livestock Research Institute, invertebrate, larva, law, livestock, manure, meat, microlivestock, milk, poultry, research, technology, vertebrate, waste, welfare
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Eggs and bacon: no more battery cages, no more sow stalls
Battery cages and sow stalls were (still are, in some parts of the world) methods of confining farm livestock in tiny cages. Good for the profits, terrible for the animals. This is the kind of thing which leads some people … Continue reading
Emerging disease threat to poultry?
My fellow blogger MottledThrush tells us about a new strain of avian pox in wild birds in Britain. Could this be a new threat to poultry? Avian pox (Avipoxvirus) can infect many bird species. For Britain, Birdwatch magazine tells us … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology
Tagged avian pox, bird, chicken, disease, DNA, duck, emerging disease, farmer, genome, goose, great tit, non-passerine, passerine, pathogen, poultry, research, tit, turkey, vaccine, vertebrate, veterinary, virus, wildlife
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Know your eggs
In Britain, livestock classed as ‘organic’ is kept to higher welfare standards than other livestock. That includes being kept on ‘free range’. When animals are slaughtered, organic methods are much the same as conventional methods. I might blog about this … Continue reading
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