The American National Chicken Council has just announced its adoption of what it calls the “4 Chicken Guarantees“—a set of standards all producers are said…
A disturbing article in Poultry World recently proclaimed “Ventilation shutdown: A humane depopulation method”. As the article did not provide a link to the actual…
The governments of Canada and Manitoba announced today that they are giving $2.5 million in funding to producer-owned Granny’s Poultry to expand its slaughter operations….
Always a leader in farmed animal welfare progress, the Netherlands has again made news as its three largest supermarkets – Albert Heijn, Jumbo and Lidl…
Earlier this week, a transport trailer carrying 8,000 chickens caught fire on a highway in Mississauga. While a few birds were able to escape from…
Last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced that two factory farms in B.C.’s Fraser Valley tested positive for avian influenza. Testing found the virus at a turkey farm in Abbotsford and a broiler chicken breeding facility in Chilliwack. Following the announcement, three more Fraser Valley farms were subsequently quarantined. More than 140,000 birds are set to be euthanized as a result. This isn’t the first bird flu outbreak found in…
On April 18, 2013, a student at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, brought a live chicken into the school cafeteria. In front of spectators, the…
Following the slow beheading of a live chicken by a Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) student last month, ACAD fired a school instructor who allegedly…
