International Respect for Chickens Day is a day to celebrate the dignity, beauty, and life of chickens and to protest against the bleakness of their lives in farming operations. We urge everyone to do an ACTION of compassion for chickens that day -- from writing a letter to the editor to tabling at a local mall to showing the movie Chicken Run to going vegan -- for life. We want people to do a good deed for chickens and not eat them. What are people doing for chickens on International...

The fate of the feed made from that waste was not immediately known. No more than 345 hogs, from farms in three states, that possibly ate tainted feed are involved, according to the Agriculture Department. Salvaged pet food from companies known or suspected of using tainted ingredients was shipped to hog farms in seven states for use as feed. The department on Thursday released the following state-by-state breakdown of its investigation into farms thought to have received the contaminated...

He said the decision of culling of chickens was taken to protect the rest of the citys poultry farms from the deadly virus. Siddiqui also confirmed the spread of disease of avian influenza H5 at some farms in Abbottabad where breeder farms exist. According to details, there are around 5,000 poultry farms which includes those for layers and broilers in Sindh province. This information has spread fears amongst the poultry farmers of the city on the possibility of another widespread outbreak...

ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein. ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs...

More than 100 brands of pet food were recalled, triggering a round of finger-pointing among pet food suppliers in the U. Shandong is the centre of China's poultry industry, which is undergoing an industrial revolution as a wealthier population demands more meat and poultry. Melamine scrap is believed to be commonly mixed in animal feed in China to artificially boost the protein level, especially in soymeal, tricking feedlots and farmers into paying more for feed for chickens and pigs....