That will be welcome news for many shoppers, but those already bewildered by the growing range of health claims on food labels could be forgiven for wondering why they should care. Hormones are banned when raising hogs and poultry in the United States, so all pork and chicken sold in the country is hormone-free. Grain-fed chickens were not fed animal by-products, while free range chickens had some access to open outdoor spaces. Antibiotics are added to feed because it makes animals grow...

Government workers dressed in surgical masks and suits disinfect the area daily and health officials are checking for signs of disease among hundreds of birds left in the market. The discovery a week ago of a daurian starling bird with the virus prompted health officials to ban the sale of birds in the market until further notice. No one knows for sure how people contract it, but most cases were due to direct contact with infected birds, mostly chickens. The Bird Garden had largely been...

The two projects a 'Stabilised Pan Tilt System' developed by Paul Chircop and a 'Study of an SMT Engineering Process' by Daniela Formosa - were awarded second and third prize respectively in the contest and went on to represent Malta in an expo-science fair in Belgium, Jeunesses Scientifiques de Belgique. The two projects a 'Stabilised Pan Tilt System' developed by Paul Chircop and a 'Study of an SMT Engineering Process' by Daniela Formosa - were awarded second and third prize respectively...

An executive of retail chain Citimart said the rise in pork prices was because of the recurrence of bird flu which had caused a slump in poultry consumption. Some pig farms in Dong Nai Province near HCM City blamed the price rise on a rise in animal feed prices and shortage of pigs for breeding due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last year. HCM CITY Industry-wide trends, poor oversight by authorities, and natural disasters have caused the prices of many consumer goods to shoot up...

Together the father and son have built a sprawling agricultural enterprise that includes the production of 32,000 broiler breeder hens, 687,500 broilers and more than 300 head of cattle. Three generations and counting the Umbersons keep the family farm tradition alive despite opportunities to sell, which the family said they took seriously just a couple of years ago. The cost of doing business continues to outpace business revenues and it takes more poultry houses to sustain a family's...