Brazil updates trade ban list after bird flu outbreak
- 22-May-2025
SAO PAULO, May 22: Brazil Agriculture Ministry on Thursday updated the list of countries that have placed restrictions on chicken trade with the world’s largest exporter after it confirmed its first case of bird flu on a commercial farm. The outbreak was identified in the city of Montenegro in the southern Brazilian state of Rio […]
Poultry association challenges inter-provincial ban on chicken
- 26-Jul-2024
LAHORE: The Poultry Traders Association has challenged the Punjab government’s decision to ban broiler chicken’s inter-provincial movement. The association filed a petition in the Lahore High Court, seeking permission for the movement of the chicken. According to the petition, the Punjab government imposed the ban to reduce the price of chicken meat. However, the association […]
Chicken culling, disposal raise concern as bird flu spreads
- 18-Jul-2024
The spread of bird flu among poultry and dairy farms has heightened some health experts’ concerns that the process of killing and disposing of poultry infected with the virus may pose a risk to humans and livestock. Recent instances of farms dumping carcasses in landfills and using methods to kill chickens that put workers in […]
Woman served non-veg sandwich, seeks millions in compensation
- 10-May-2024
A woman demanded millions in compensation after she was served a non-veg sandwich by a restaurant. In a complaint filed with the Deputy Health Officer of India’s Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the woman, identified as Nirali, said that she placed an order for a paneer tikka sandwich from a restaurant via a food delivery app. However, […]
Chicken farmers face high costs switching to eggs
- 30-Apr-2024
Some U.S. farmers who once raised chickens for Tyson Foods to slaughter are shifting to sell eggs instead after the meatpacker closed six plants, a move that left local suppliers with limited options for work. In one example, former Tyson suppliers in central Virginia formed a cooperative that will produce cage-free eggs for Indiana-based Dutch […]
Cuba charges 30 over massive chicken heist
- 10-Feb-2024
Cuba has charged 30 people for stealing 133 tonnes of chicken and selling them on the street in a rare major heist at a time of food shortages in the communist-run nation. Thieves took the meat, in 1,660 white boxes, from a state facility in the capital Havana, and used the sale proceeds to buy […]
VIRAL: Man vows to eat raw chicken meat till he gets sick
- 05-Feb-2024
A man became a social media sensation after starting a challenge in which he would eat raw chicken meat daily till he gets sick.
400kg sick chicken seized in Rawalpindi
- 18-Oct-2023
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Wednesday claimed to have seized 400 kilogrammes of sick chicken during a raid in Rawalpindi, Punjab, ARY News reported. According to officials of the PFA, the action was carried out in Poultry Market in Bagh Sardaran on a tip-off. During the checking 400kg of chicken worth Rs240,000 was found […]
Multinational firm to shut four chicken plants
- 08-Aug-2023
Tyson Foods is shutting four more chicken plants – in Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri – to cut costs, a blow to small communities in the U.S. heartland that depend on the meatpacker for nearly 3,000 jobs. The company, which reaped big profits as meat prices soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now adjusting to a […]
What came first – chicken or egg? Scientists now have the answer
- 17-Jun-2023
For centuries, the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first has puzzled minds young and old, intriguing scholars across generations. Finally, scientists are becoming more confident in revealing the answer based on a study around amphibians and lizards. According to the study, which examined 51 fossil species and 29 existing species, the […]