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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

McDonald’s investor wants it to cut antibiotics in all meats

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Los Angeles | Reuters –– A McDonald’s Corp. shareholder group is renewing its call for the fast-food chain to stop buying any meat from animals raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections. The move from the Congregation of Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas, comes amid growing concern from public health experts that the overuse […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Study alleges U.S. fast food still mostly raised on antibiotics

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Los Angeles | Reuters –– Most large U.S. fast-food chains still serve meat from farm animals that have been routinely fed antibiotics, consumer groups said in a new report, which concluded that many companies have not yet laid out plans to curb the practice. Subway, Starbucks, KFC and Domino’s Pizza were among the industry leaders […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Sheep/Goats

Yukon to help cover livestock vets’ travel costs

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The Yukon government has launched a pilot program to help cover veterinarians’ travel and service expenses for farm calls. The territory government on Tuesday announced it will accept up to 30 farmers for the pilot of the Veterinary Services Program, running from now to the end of March 2016. The program will reimburse participating veterinarians […] Read more
McDonald’s announced Wednesday it will now source five per cent of the eggs used in its breakfast menu items, such as these breakfast burritos, from “cage-free” sources, en route to 100 per cent over the next 10 years. (McDonalds.ca)
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

McDonald’s en route to ‘cage-free’ eggs in Canada, U.S.

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Reuters/Staff –– McDonald’s Corp. said all eggs it uses in its 16,000 restaurants in Canada and the U.S. will, within the next 10 years, come from chickens not confined to cages. The decision to source “cage-free” eggs follows the company’s announcement in March that it would stop using chicken raised with certain kinds of antibiotics […] Read more
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Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Canada lifts bans on three states’ poultry, eggs

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Travellers entering Canada from the U.S. can now bring in uncooked poultry products and eggs from Indiana, Montana and/or Arkansas. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) during August declared each of those three states free of highly pathogenic (“high-path”) avian flu, following discoveries of infected poultry in those states this spring. Poultry from Indiana had […] Read more

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