Curious to try a lab-grown chicken sandwich? Don’t look to satiate your craving in Mississippi, which earlier this week moved to ban so-called cultivated or cell-derived meat. The proposed ban, unanimously passed by the House of Representatives, carries a $500 fine and up to three months in jail for anyone growing or selling such products…
A mad scramble for chickens ensued after a pickup truck transporting poultry from Amethi to Firozabad overturned in Kannauj on Lucknow-Agra Expressway on Saturday. Locals from nearby villages rushed to the scene to grab the chickens, leaving the injured driver and cleaner to fend for themselves. Onlookers captured the chaotic scene on camera, and the…
A fire tore through a large commercial farm in western Ohio this week that was housing hundreds of thousands of chickens raised to lay eggs, dealing another blow to a state egg industry that was already reeling from the effects of an Avian influenza outbreak. Fire and state officials did not specify how many birds…
Federal officials who spent the last year grappling with a surge of bird flu infections in cows and people are now confronting a spate of new cases in cats, some of which have died after eating contaminated, uncooked pet food. Since early December, more than two dozen cases have been confirmed in domestic cats in…
Perdue Farms and JBS, two of the country’s biggest meatpackers, will pay a combined $8 million after the Department of Labor found the companies relied for years on migrant children to work in their slaughterhouses. The deals, announced this week, are part of a flurry of child labor settlements that have come in the last…
A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials reported on Monday. The patient was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, the officials said. The individual became infected with the bird flu virus, H5N1, after exposure to a…
A large shipment of Indian eggs, worth at least Rs 15 crore, is currently stranded due to the restrictions, said PV Senthil, an egg exporter from Namakkal. NAMAKKAL: Oman on Tuesday stopped issuing new import permits for Indian table eggs, hitting the poultry industry in Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. The new restriction assumes significance in…