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 first step toward our goal of reducing the use of antibiotics that are also used
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Perdue Announces Dramatic Reduction in Antibiotic Use in its Chickens
Perdue Foods, the third-largest chicken producer in the country, is setting a high bar for antibiotics preservation on farms, and the public health community is pleased. At a press conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., the company announced that it has stopped using antibiotics in all of its chicken hatcheries. Chairman
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Is Perdue’s ‘Eat Like Your Ancestors’ Campaign Calling for Chicken Industry Reform?
“Eat like your ancestors.” The phrase brings about feelings of nostalgia for all that is good, simple and natural about food. Perdue’s Harvestland campaign slogan conjures up an image of farming ways of the past. Its website points consumers to chicken recipes from the turn of the century. At that
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Chicken Nuggets Recalled for Undeclared Milk
A Virginia company is recalling 1,440 pounds of its chicken nugget products because they contain milk, a known allergen, that is not declared on packaging. Perdue Foods, LLC of Bridgewater, VA issued a voluntary recall of its chicken breast nuggets Tuesday after it discovered that the nuggets, which had undergone
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Court Decision in Dispute Over Poultry Practices Delayed to Nov. 30
Testimony in the two-week trial in Baltimore over how poultry practices affect the water quality on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has ended, but the spinning continues, with closing arguments now set for Nov. 30. Sometime after that, U.S. District Court Judge William Nickerson will render his decision in the closely watched
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