Antibiotics Archive

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    Are performance enhancing drugs helping the chickens? - by frog



    According to an as yet unreleased survey on the health of commercial egg laying chickens in the news today: The survey results are not due to be released until November, but industry sources told the Sunday Star-Times that early findings show that battery-farmed birds are generally healthier [than free range chickens] because the controlled conditions [...] read more
    September 21, 2008 2:42 pm - 2 Comments
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    From different corners of the internet - by frog



    Food Democracy covers a new European study, published by the Food Commission, claims that the heavy use of antibiotics in livestock farming is the cause of many superbugs, including salmonella, campylobacter and E.coli. worldchanging.com shows how two views of the same data on climate change can lead to very different solutions. In one set of [...] read more
    August 14, 2008 8:16 am - No Comments
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    Getting chickens off the drugs - by frog



    It seems that if you keep a rather large number of chickens inside a building and afford each chicken roughly about an A4 piece of paper’s worth of space, and feed them a very limited diet, those chickens occasionally get sick.  At this point you’ve really got two choices – you could knock down the [...] read more
    May 13, 2008 3:13 pm - 14 Comments
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    Why did the chicken cross the road? - by frog



    Probably because its broiler shed was already full and the rapidly growing poultry industry was building a  new shed. Chicken has gone from a relatively rare and unusual meat (under 1kg per capita in the 1960′s) to the most consumed meat in New Zealand. The Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand says we kiwis consumed [...] read more
    February 19, 2008 10:29 am - 5 Comments