To achieve a beautiful golden brown crust, all sides of the fish or chicken are misted with cooking oil from a spray can. If you crave the crunch, you can use an easy oven-frying technique for fish or poultry that gives you results that similar to deep-fried, yet with just a third of the calories and just a tenth of the fat. To do this, the fish or poultry first is coated with a layer of buttermilk, mustard or even a low-fat creamy salad dressing. Though a golden, crispy fried catfish...

We're choking on new rules, say Island farmers. A funny thought coming from a woman who runs a poultry abattoir called The Cluck Stops Here, but she's deadly serious: At a time when Vancouver Island's agriculture industry is fighting to survive, she says new livestock-processing rules are pushing farms and slaughterhouses out of business. A funny thought coming from a woman who runs a poultry abattoir called The Cluck Stops Here, but she's deadly serious: At a time when Vancouver Island's...

The numbers behind ethanol 90 million acres of corn planted nationally this year 55 thousand average bushels of corn ground daily at Mid-Missouri Energy 9:10the ratio of ethanol to get the same output as gasoline 30 percent the reduced amount of carbon monoxide emissions with ethanol 3.9 billion gallons of ethanol U. Some years he plants more soybeans than corn on his 2,000 acres, sometimes not, but he always tries to rotate his crops for the sake of the soil. The numbers behind ethanol 90...

Thueringen had re-introduced a lock-up order for farm poultry which must be kept indoors in areas of high risk contact with wild birds, such as in farms near lakes and rivers. A pet goose in a home for mentally handicapped people had tested positive for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu and all farm and pet birds in a three-km exclusion zone were culled as a precautionary measure over the weekend, he said. The affected goose had been able to run around freely and contact with wild birds...

The framework of today s long-term care environment is comprised of advanced rehabilitation techniques and accompanying equipment in addition to evolved systems of caring for and making comfortable prototypical age-related illness and disease, said a document from the center filed in the Planning and Zoning Department. They hope it will never happen, but Westport officials are refining their plans for an Avian influenza or bird flu pandemic. The framework of today s long-term care...