Students back Foster Farms and fresh chicken lobby with legislation
A year ago, Foster Farms’ television advertising featured those well known "Imposters" as enhanced and "pumped up" chickens full of water, salt and other ingredients. Consumers received a funny, yet important lesson on the way some companies sell fresh chicken. They enhance it with up to 15 percent of salt water and other ingredients, make some good money on selling liquid, and label that chicken "fresh." California chicken companies don’t like that, and the industry has spent many years trying to get the USDA to change their labeling policy. That could happen this year, thanks to a lot of lobbying from California and other places.
CPF welcomes new member Islamic Meat & Poultry
Islamic Meat & Poultry, located in Stockton, California, recently joined the California Poultry Federation. Islamic Meat & Poultry supplies whole and cutup chicken with a focus on Halal. For more […]
Journalist goes undercover at Cargill plant
A journalist writing for Harper’s Magazine spent two months as a USDA meat inspector at a Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Nebraska. Ted Conover, an investigative journalist and author, wrote […]
Xinhua insight: Chinese poultry industry struggles to survive H7N9
Lin Yuanzhong has killed more than 40,000 ducklings in the past 10 days as there is no sign anyone will patronize his duck breeding farm in Zini Town, Longhai City […]
Mexico reports 11 new H7N3 flu outbreaks
There were 11 new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) of the H7N3 subtype during the last month. The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No.5 dated 17 […]
CPF welcomes new member Ruben Villalobos
Modesto lawyer Ruben Villalobos is the newest member of the California Poultry Federation. Villalobos owns a small flock of layer chickens and some emus on a ranch named after his […]
California farmworkers may win fast track to legal residency
As many as 400,000 California undocumented farmworkers may get a fast track to legal status under a potential landmark accord between the agricultural industry and the United Farm Workers Union. […]
California bill to thwart animal investigations killed
After weeks of opposition from animal welfare advocates, labor groups and First Amendment experts, a California assembly member withdrew a bill that would limit undercover abuse investigations before it could advance past its first step.
California now joins Arkansas and Wyoming in declining in recent weeks to advance bills that seek to punish the documenter of farm animal abuse rather than the abuse itself. In Tennessee, however, lawmakers on Wednesday were close to approving a bill similar to the one in California.
Bird flu poses risk to US processors: Fitch
The impact of the bird-flu virus could spread to companies from other countries with a significant business presence in China, according to Fitch Ratings. The ratings firm said companies such as McDonald’s Corp., Tyson Foods, Inc., JBS S.A. and Yum! Brands could be affected if poultry consumption in China continues to decline. "We believe rising consumer fears around avian influenza in China [or elsewhere if human-to-human cases develop], could cause a meaningful pullback in chicken consumption with fewer restaurant visits, lower retail chicken sales and reduced export activity.
Deadly bird flu spreading in China, unclear how
Health officials in China are scrambling to uncover how multiple members of three families in Shanghai and a young boy and girl from neighboring homes in Beijing became infected with a new strain of bird flu. The H7N9 virus, which has killed 17 and sickened at least 82 people since March, is thought to pass from birds to humans. But its spread within families and neighborhoods has flamed fears about possible human-to-human transmission.