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Fiesta Chicken Soup

RECIPE SWAP I’m surprised that widely publicized list of items to stock up on in case flu hits doesn’t mention chicken soup. Sure, we need plenty of facial tissues and Tylenol around, and a thermometer too, but what’s to eat when illness strikes? The curative effects of chicken soup aren’t just folkloric. A few years
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Farm Building Code To Vary With Operations

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“You can’t treat a farm building across the board.” – CHRIS JONES, DEPUTY FIRE COMMISSIONER The Manitoba fire commissioner’s office is recommending against a one-size-fits-all approach for including farm buildings under the provincial building code. Different kinds of operations should be subject to different building standards, said Chris Jones, deputy fire commissioner. “You can’t treat
Beef cattle, News, Poultry

Stay-At-Home Consumers Bite Into Pricey Steaks

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Meat-loving consumers in the United States are eating out less, but they are not forgoing taste and quality as researchers have found that more restaurant-quality prime-and choice-grade steaks are being served on family dinner tables. Beginning in 2008, cash-strapped consumers shifted to at-home dining. As a result, with restaurant business on the decline, meat companies
Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

East-West Biosecurity Divide

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The federal government seems to be on the verge of announcing money to run an around-the-clock biosecurity centre at West Hawk Lake near the Manitoba-Ontario border. West Hawk has been chosen as the dividing point between Western and Eastern Canada should there be an outbreak of a foreign animal disease. Canadians hope to convince trading
Beef cattle, News, Poultry

In Brief… – for Sep. 24, 2009

Food aid budgets crash: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever. Josette Sheeran, UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) executive director said the number of hungry people passed one billion this year for the first time, adding the UN has barely
Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry

Planning For A Possible Pandemic

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“Obviously, human health is first and the animals second, but we would do our utmost to ensure that the animals are looked after so there are no animal welfare issues.” – SHEILA MOWAT Cows won’t get the flu, but a lot of farmers might. If even half of what public health officials are saying, both
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Chicken Farmers Go Interactive With Information Blog

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“Questions are best responded to visually.” – lisa bishop-spencer, cfc Chickens are not genetically modified to have six wings, nine legs, no feathers and no beaks. KFC was not forced to change its name from Kentucky Fried Chicken because its chickens aren’t real birds. Those are two urban myths which Chicken Farmers of Canada gets
Hogs, Livestock, Poultry

Russia Partly Lifts Ban On Canadian Pork

SASKATOON/REUTERS Russia has partly lifted its ban on Canadian pork, easing one of the major trade impediments that have been straining Canada’s pork industry since the outbreak of H1N1 flu in April. Russia has lifted its ban on imports of pork from the province of Quebec, Canada’s International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said July 3.
Livestock, Poultry

McDonald’s Weighs Hen Housing Options

McDonald’s USA is participating in a commercial-scale study of housing alternatives for egg-laying hens. The study, which expects to involve tens of thousands of hens, will look at the sustain-ability impacts of different laying hen housing environments on animal health and well-being, safe and affordable food, the environment, and worker welfare, according to a release.
Livestock, Poultry

Regulatory Change Surprises Chicken Producers

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“We were not consulted.” – Wayne Hiltz, Manitoba Chicken Producers The province has caught Manitoba broiler chicken farmers off guard by ordering them to develop a plan to ensure supplies of live chicken to processing plants. Producers say they didn’t ask for this and the demand by the government took them completely by surprise. “We

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