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‘Flexitarians’ drive meat-vegetable hybrids toward more marketshare

By Cookson Beecher on December 7, 2020
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Have you ever eaten a dinosaur before?

Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. But more notable than their…
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Extraneous plastic materials prompt chicken nugget recall

By News Desk on March 7, 2016

recalled-perdue-nuggetsPerdue Foods LLC of Gainesville, GA,  is recalling  4,530 pounds of chicken nugget products produced for Applegate Farms that may be contaminated with extraneous plastic materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection…
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Perdue’s Big Reveal: ‘We Need Happier Birds’

By Leah Garcés on August 7, 2015

You might not have caught it, but at the end of Stephanie Strom’s article this past weekend in The New York Times, Perdue made a big reveal.

Back in December 2014, Compassion in World Farming…

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Why Chicken Is Going Antibiotic-Free First

By Lydia Zuraw on June 8, 2015

When McDonald’s announced in March that it would be phasing out the use of medically important antibiotics in raising the chickens that supply its 14,000 U.S. restaurants, some asked, “What about the Big Mac and…
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Foster Farms Cuts Back on Antibiotics Use

By Lydia Zuraw on June 2, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-chickens-cot-image13995122Foster Farms, the California-based company linked to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Salmonella Heidelberg that sickened 634 people in 2013 and 2014, is the latest major chicken producer to go antibiotic-free. The company announced Monday…
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Chicken Industry Acts More Like Ostriches

By Leah Garcés on January 27, 2015

Last month, something unprecedented happened that rocked the chicken industry’s world. Perdue contract farmer Craig Watts decided he’d had enough. Together with my organization, Compassion in World Farming, he released a video that gave the…
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2014 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 22, 2014

Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced…
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Consumer Marketing Win: Ending ‘Humanewashing’

By Leah Garcés on October 27, 2014

Earlier this year, Cassandra White of Clarkston, GA, gathered more than 165,000 signatures for a Change.org petition asking Kroger to stop misleading customers. Kroger’s Simple Truth Natural Chicken bore the words “raised in a humane…
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Perdue Will Remove Its ‘Humanely Raised’ Label to Settle HSUS Lawsuits

By News Desk on October 14, 2014

Perdue has agreed to remove the “humanely raised” claim from the labels on its Harvestland chicken packaging. In exchange, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) will drop two class-action lawsuits filed against the…
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Tyson Announces Removal of Antibiotics From its Chicken Hatcheries

By News Desk on October 2, 2014

Tyson Foods has announced that, as of Oct. 1, it no longer uses antibiotics in its 35 chicken hatcheries. “Since the antibiotic typically used in hatcheries is important to human health, this is a significant…
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