Signs in chickens include labored breathing, neck extension as if from coughing, difficulty swallowing expiration of blood, dirty feathers and increased mortality. Davis notes that ILT is not a human health concern for consumers but that it is very contagious among chickens and can seriously impair growth and increase mortality in a flock. ILT can be spread on contaminated equipment and on boots and clothing, as well as litter, according to a report by James Cochran, formerly a poultry...

Restrictions on transport and sale of poultry and poultry products in the five townships has since been lifted. According to laboratory tests, 24 samples out of 675 samples from the affected farms were infected, while the virus was also detected in six samples of the dead crows out of 561 samples taken of wild birds, reported The New Light of Myanmar. The government has requested the people and breeders to come forward with information on the dead birds, to ensure bio-security and...

The proposed ban will ban these teenagers from working on poultry farms, as well as riding as passengers on forklifts, or selling door-to-door. The proposed update to child labour laws would also allow the teenagers to work in advertising, banking and information technology. The US Department of Labor wants to ban 14- and 15-year-olds from working at poultry plants. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, meanwhile, kicked off the second year of its campaign to keep teenagers...

This is one of those years, and the 2007 Farm Bill reauthorization is heating up to become the most scrutinized food and farm policy debate in recent history. Originally conceived as an emergency bailout for millions of farmers and the unemployed during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, the Farm Bill has snowballed into one of the most significant forces affecting food, farming and land use in the United States. Originally conceived as an emergency bailout for millions of farmers and the...

The 2.3 percent fall in fruit and vegetable prices was offset by rises of 1.1 percent in meat, poultry and fish prices, and 0.4 percent in grocery food prices. Specifically, meat, poultry and fish prices rose 7.1 percent, fruit and vegetable prices increased 7.8 percent, prices for restaurant meals and ready to eat food were up 3.3 percent, grocery food prices rose 0.9 percent and non-alcoholic beverage prices increased 1.3 percent. The increase in grocery food prices was largely due to...