Alarms went off with the Newcastle disease outbreaks in the Dominican Republic. Without a doubt, poultry diseases do not stop attacking Latin American and world-wide poultry flocks.
In October of last year, the Mexican Congress approved reforms to the provisions of the General Health Bill, regarding prevention of obesity, food labeling, and non-alcoholic beverages.
Last week in England, a labor court ruled that veganism is “a philosophical belief or way of life.” As such, it must be protected under the U.K. Equality Act. This was the result of a job layoff considered discriminatory, which the defendant attributes to his firm vegan convictions.
I would like to end this year with a positive blog, as now is the time to lavish a plethora of beatitudes to all, especially to the members of the poultry community.
Pigments in biology, as defined in the Spanish Language Academy dictionary, is a “coloring substance that, dissolved or in the form of granules, it is found in the cytoplasm of many plant and animal cells.”
Sometimes I get the impression that the poultry and livestock industries live with an almost perennial hangover from which they cannot recover, with respect to what groups against animal production do.
A few days ago, CoBank’s economist Will Sawyer, published a very interesting report on the changes that are happening in the U.S. chicken market with respect to consumer preferences of white breast meat, thighs and dark drumstick meat.
In Mexico, Bachoco is the main poultry company. Based in Celaya, Guanajuato, its history begins as a family business in 1952 in Sonora, in northwest Mexico.
I have always been struck by the fact that when people ask me if hormones are used in chicken production, female sex hormones – progesterone and estrogen -- are balancing in their minds.
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