Companies as diverse as Wolfgang Puck and Burger King are impressing sensitive consumers with meals featuring eggs from so-called cage-free hens or pork from pigs not confined to crates or small barn stalls. The percent of animal products that animal rights activists would call "humanely raised and slaughtered" remains small compared with that from industrial-type production methods. It often means more acres of expensive farmland to allow animals more space, and longer waits before they...

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The project will cost 3.6 million ringgit ( 520,000) and is aimed at the thousands of Muslims who are infected with the disease during the annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca. Please can other muslims stop attention seeking and acting so precious and at least learn the basics of your religion before showing the rest of us up. But surely, if someone dies because they have not been vaccinated this is part of Allah's big plan anyway? So why bother with a halal vaccine? The only difference for...

He realized in 1996 that he would have to eventually somehow diversify his farm operation or obtain an "off the farm " job to keep his cash flow in proper perspective. In 1998 Koschmeder signed a contract to erect three confinement buildings and manure reception pit on his property located 3 1/2 miles north and 3/4 of a mile west of Riceville. The contracted company is responsible for most of the general costs of the operation such as shipping, medical costs and cost of the hogs. He must...

The craving is so strong that Cheryl Urban of Wisconsin Rapids, a cranberry grower who also processes the crops of six other growers, said 30 percent of her business' sales will go to foreign markets this year. The largest producer, Ocean Spray Cranberries inc., has seen its foreign business grow by double-digit percentages each year for more than a decade, reaching between $300 million and $400 million annually in 80 different countries, CEO Randy Papadellis said. The largest producer,...