Chick culling is an outgrowth of a poultry industry that for decades has raised one kind of chicken for eggs and another for ...
Although rare, humans can get the H5N1 bird flu. People can get it through direct contact with infected animals, including chicken, turkey, geese and cows. There have been no human-to-human cases of ...
Every year, the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so they have little monetary value. That ...
Outdoor chicken flocks are at greater risk of bird flu, but cage-free laws don't require chickens to be outdoors, and most ...
Michigan grocery stores are getting ready for a big change that takes effect Jan. 1 when all eggs sold in the state must come from "cage free" chickens. In 2019, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...
Some cage-free hens may still be kept in crowded indoor spaces and fed low-quality feed ... Other foods/items on the list she ...
Since launching the regenerative agriculture plan in 2023 with nine suppliers, McDonald's China has trained nearly 5,000 farmers in 2024. This year, the company introduced its first cage-free chicken ...
Egg-laying hens who are forced to spend their entire lives in cages should be banned, some of the leading food companies have said. Currently eight-million birds are kept this way in the UK - with ...
The change in Michigan has been looming for more than a decade. A 2009 law mandated that farmers switch to cage-free egg production by 2019, a timeline the Legislature later extended for an ...
The current bird flu outbreak that began in February 2022 has led to the slaughter of more than 111 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens. Anytime the virus is found, every bird on a farm is ...