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Health & Wellness News tagged with poultry

Sign Petition: Tell Your Senator to Support SB 416
Health & Wellness  (tags: animals, livestock, cows, beef, cattle, poultry, chicken, pigs, antibiotic, resistant, bacteria, water, soil, food, danger, health, disease, warning, safety, humans, protection, illness, prevention )

Tom
- 180 days ago - ga3.org
Livestock and poultry producers routinely feed antibiotics to animals to boost growth rates or counteract unhygienic living conditions. This creates antibiotic-resistant bacteria transmitted to humans through water, soil, animal contact, or food we eat.
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Abuse of Antibiotics at Factory Farms Threatens the Effectiveness of Drugs Used to Treat Disease in Humans
Health & Wellness  (tags: animals, livestock, cows, beef, cattle, poultry, chicken, pigs, antibiotic, resistant, bacteria, water, soil, food, danger, health, disease, warning, safety, humans, protection, illness, prevention )

Tom
- 180 days ago - sierraclub.org
Industrial-style livestock operations increases the use of antibiotics in animals. Thousands of animals are crammed into the unhygienic, crowded quarters of a typical factory operation, and antibiotics are dispensed constantly through the animals' feed.
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So What Does the Inside of a Factory Farm Look Like Anyway? (SlideShow)
Health & Wellness  (tags: business, Factory farms, Meat production, Poultry, Antibiotics, hormones, Go veg )

Suri
- 201 days ago - treehugger.com
All photos in this slideshow were provided by Farm Sanctuary ...At chicken hatcheries, chicks enter the factory farming world packed into huge drawers.
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Take Action: Ask Congress to Maintain the Ban on Chinese Chicken
Health & Wellness  (tags: warning, safety, risks, protection, prevention, nutrition, illness, health, food, government, family, ethics, disease, children, China, food, poultry, law, profit, Tyson, chicken, imports )

Chris
- 225 days ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org
In 2008, Congress successfully blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from allowing imported processed poultry from China. However, corporations such as Tyson and Cargill have been putting pressure on Congress to lift the ban so they can profit more.
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China, Vietnam on Bird Flu Alert After Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: outbreak, health, bird flu, epidemic, poultry, containment, China, Southeast Asia, Asia, Vietnam )

Shandril
- 639 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Bird flu has killed a woman teacher in northern Vietnam, the fourth death from the H5N1 virus this year, state-run Voice of Vietnam radio reported on Tuesday.
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