Livestock

A Canadian doctors’ warning unfavourably comparing the cholesterol from just one egg yolk to that of KFC’s notorious “Double Down” bunless sandwich has Canada’s egg producers boiling. Billed as a warning about the danger of dietary cholesterol for those at risk of a strike or heart attack, a new review published by three physicians in

A process set up by Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council will be used to update a national code of practice for beef cattle production. The Beef Code of Practice, to be updated in partnership with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, will be one of the first such codes to enter the NFACC process. The NFACC

The founder of processor Cardinal Meat Specialists has become the first Canadian admitted to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame. Ralph Cator, who founded Cardinal as a restaurant meat supplier in 1966, was officially inducted Saturday into the hall of fame, alongside 11 others including McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, KFC founder Harland Sanders and Wendy’s

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will mark November as National 4-H Month by launching a contest for young people to come up with their own ways to promote livestock biosecurity. The online contest, launched Monday, asks 4-H members and other “like-minded” Canadian young people between ages 12 and 21 to come up with a slogan,

The Alberta government will clear a regulatory path for livestock feeder associations to test-run pilot projects looking at different ways to produce and market cattle and to finance that process. Agriculture Minister Jack Hayden last week announced changes to the provincially-operated Feeder Associations Loan Guarantee Program to allow a pilot project for a feeder association