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Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable? Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.At issue are small cages, typically 24 inches wide by 25½ inches deep, that can be shared by up to nine hens. About 96 percent of eggs sold in the United States come from hens who live in the
Atty: Non-poultry sources could have tainted water
A scientist testified that runoff from fields spread with poultry manure accounted for a major portion of phosphorus pollution in a sensitive northeastern Oklahoma watershed.
Poultry exec: Didn't check if rules were followed
A Cargill executive testified Thursday that he did not check to see if company farmers were following an environmental handbook he helped compile in 2002 that warned them not to spread excess
Expert: Recreation on Illinois River has declined
About 30,000 fewer people floated in the Illinois River watershed in 2007 compared with two years earlier, a professor testified Tuesday, suggesting that decades of chicken manure pollution may
Raided SC poultry plant mends hiring, avoids trial
A South Carolina poultry plant raided by immigration agents last year has agreed to change its hiring practices to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal |
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