Tag Archives: poultry

No seeds, no future

Posted on June 8, 2014 by argylesock

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 | 2 Comments

Achievements and controversy surrounding rice, vitamins, and GM crops

Posted on May 22, 2014 by argylesock

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 | Leave a comment

Antibiotic Use in Chickens: Responsible for Hundreds of Human Deaths?

Posted on January 10, 2014 by argylesock

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 | Leave a comment

Negotiating a Transatlantic Agricultural Market

Posted on January 6, 2014 by argylesock

Here’s an American article about the Promises and Perils of the TTIP. That’s the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. As I write this in January 2014, the TTIP is being negotiated. The article I’ve just linked to is from October … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, money and trade | Tagged biotechnology, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, disease, feed, feed additive, food safety, genetic modification, growth promotion, hormone, law, livestock, meat, politics, poultry, ractopamine, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, veterinary | 1 Comment

Why not feed insects to other livestock?

Posted on November 26, 2013 by argylesock

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 | 2 Comments

Has the red kite become a pest?

Posted on October 30, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain the red kite (Milvus milvus) was hunted almost to extinction. In the 16th century it was classed as vermin, supposedly a threat to agriculture. A few centuries later, along came gamekeepers whose job was (and still is) … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged bird, bird of prey, child, conservation, earthworm, game, history, livestock, native species, pest, pet, poultry, predator, raptor, red kite, reintroduced species, rodent, shooting, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife | 13 Comments

Eggs and bacon: no more battery cages, no more sow stalls

Posted on April 6, 2013 by argylesock

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 →

Posted in agriculture | Tagged chicken, egg, farm, feed, grocery, housing, label, law, meat, pig, poultry, welfare | 2 Comments

Biotechnology for livestock

Posted on February 7, 2013 by argylesock

Many livestock farmers in the rich world use biotechnology. Some of the biotech that farmers use is familiar outside the world of farming, because it’s also used for humans. Some of the biotech is controversial. Here’s an article about how … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture | Tagged biotechnology, cattle, clone, embryo transfer, history, in vitro fertilisation, law, livestock, pig, poultry, research, semen, sheep | 2 Comments

Emerging disease threat to poultry?

Posted on November 30, 2012 by argylesock

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 | Leave a comment

Turkeys

Posted on November 22, 2012 by argylesock

If you’re Stateside it’s your Thanksgiving today. For those who eat meat, the Thanksgiving dinner includes roast turkey (Meleagris gallopava). Here in Britain we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but most of us celebrate Christmas. With roast turkey. The turkey has been … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture | Tagged farm, history, intensive, law, meat, pollution, poultry, prosperity, slaughter, turkey, welfare | 9 Comments