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• California may require more space for hens
ATWATER, Calif. - At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space. Beneath them, conveyor belts whisk away excrement while 1.2 million eggs travel ...
• Stepbrother charged in N.Y. girl's death
Erin was being raised in a home with over 100 cats, as well as caged poultry. The home reeked of animal urine. There was animal feces over 18 inches deep in one of the rooms," State Police Capt. Mark Lincoln said. Victim weighed only 65 pounds ...
• Community torn apart by S.C. immigration raid
Just days before, poultry workers visibly filled the neighborhoods around the plant. Before ICE raid The community's transformation was slow but steady over the last 15 years as the newcomers replaced working-class whites and blacks. Neighborhood ...
• Faster genetic test for flu virus approved
Health officials have been concerned not only about conventional forms of flu that circulate each year, but new varieties in Asia. They fear the current bird flu virus that has spread among Asian poultry and has killed some people could mutate into a ...
• Amid milk scare, China’s elite eat all-organic
Antibiotics and hormones are commonly used in raising livestock and poultry. Farmed aquatic products are contaminated by various kinds of water pollution,” the center’s director, Zhu Yonglan, said in a speech earlier this year. “It goes without ...