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Achieving Higher Animal Welfare Standards in EU

2014-04-17 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

ANALYSIS - A five-year plan has been launched to encourage the production, sourcing and consumption of food and products from animals to be from higher welfare regimes across Europe.

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Baby chickens 'cooked alive' at hatchery, animal rights group contends

2014-04-15 13:59:48| Food - Topix.net

A worker at Horizon Poultry in Hanover, Ont., sorts baby chicks by sex. The company, owned by Maple Leaf Foods, is accused of mistreating the young birds by an animal rights group.

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Collaborative Efforts to Promote Judicious Use of Antimicrobial Drugs in Food Animal Production

2014-04-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

CANADA - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex and evolving public health issue, involving many players in Canada and internationally. Health Canada's Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD) continues to promote the prudent use of antimicrobial drugs with the objective of minimizing the development and spread of AMR due to antimicrobial use in veterinary medicine and food animal production.

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Green Party Prioritises Action against 'Factory Farming', Live Animal Exports

2014-04-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - Top of the Green Party's manifesto priorities for the May elections is action against mega-farms and 'factory farming'; it also aims to ban live animal exports and put greater regulation on animal transportation.

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Gene therapy successfully regenerates an old organ inside a living animal

2014-04-09 16:30:12| Extremetech

In a landmark study sure to provoke interest, researchers from the University of Edinburgh have regenerated an aged organ -- in vivo, inside a living animal -- to its youthful state though noninvasive manipulation of genes. It's a breakthrough that not only brings hope for a wide variety of age-related ailments, but which fundamentally challenges our idea of what aging is.

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