With her mobile phone in hand, a fax machine and a computer nearby, she looks after 30 or so head of registered Brangus cattle, keeps watch over 42,000 chickens and still finds time to rock her 6-month-old grandson, Caden, to sleep for his afternoon nap. The American National CattleWomens Associations primary mission is educating consumers and legislators on the nutritional benefits of beef and the importance of the cattle industry to the nations economy, said Jackie Buehner, press...

It's illegal to feed laying chickens hormones and, except for pasteurized or irradiated eggs, the FDA forbids additives and preservatives. It's a puzzle, considering that Hattermann and his father once ran one of the biggest, most up-to-date egg operations in Colorado county: 84,000 chickens, six sprawling henhouses, 50,000 eggs per day, seven miles of conveyor belts to carry them from cage to packing machine and plenty of cutting-edge machinery. It's a puzzle, considering that Hattermann...

A long-simmering debate in the fast-food industry over the most humane way to kill a chicken heated up yesterday after Burger King said it would give preference to suppliers that use gas chambers to process poultry. Animal-welfare groups predicted that the hamburger chain's decision would put pressure on Louisville-based KFC corp. to discourage the technique used by its suppliers, in which birds are stunned with an electric shock while they hang upside down in shackles. Animal-welfare...

Reacting to this Samba invasion, some Saudi producers of poultry meat are now searching for export markets elsewhere in the region. Brazilian-led imports now account for a 44 per cent slice of the Kingdom s domestic market valued at US$ 1.6 billion annually. Representing Saudi Arabia, are industry heavyweights, Radwa Food Product Company, one of the largest poultry farms and poultry products processing and manufacturing companies in the region along with the Saudi Agricultural Development...

Exactly how many positive cases of the virus were identified is not known, but according to the Commissioner over 300 birds on one of the farms have been culled. The farms where the positive cases have been located, have been quarantined for now, while cleaning is performed to rid them of any contamination. Since late 2003, millions of birds from around the world have been culled in an attempt to stamp out the virus that has killed more than 170 people, the majority of which from the Asian...