chickens

Business Apr 28, 2020

Piglets aborted and chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector

Farmers say they have no choice but to cull livestock as they run short on space to house their animals or money to feed them.

Business Jan 28, 2020

U.S. wants end to EU ban on 'chlorinated chicken' and hormone-treated beef

by Alex Pigman

The U.S. said Monday that Europeans should reconsider their ban on so-called chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef imports, as efforts heat up to clinch a swift trade deal with Washington. This will ring alarm bells in Europe, where fears of U.S. food safety standards being ...

Voices | OVERHEARD Apr 27, 2019

It will never fly

"Can chickens fly?"

National Jan 11, 2018

Japan confirms first bird flu case in livestock this winter

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza killed chickens at a farm in Kagawa Prefecture, in the first outbreak to be confirmed among livestock in Japan this season.

National Mar 24, 2017

300,000 chickens doomed as bird flu spreads to Miyagi, Chiba

Authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures began culling nearly 300,000 chickens Friday after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu was detected in dead chickens at local poultry farms. In Japan's latest bird flu outbreak, the Miyagi Prefectural Government plans to cull 220,000 chickens ...

National Mar 22, 2017

Government bans Brazilian meat producers over bribery scandal, says supplies won't be affected

by Reiji Yoshida

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday the blocking of imports from 21 Brazilian processing plants involved in a high-profile bribery and tainted-meat scandal will not affect supplies in Japan.

National / Science & Health Jan 25, 2017

Miyazaki poultry farm culls over 168,000 chickens amid bird flu outbreak

The local government began culling 168,400 chickens early Wednesday after some dead chickens at a poultry farm in Miyazaki Prefecture were found to have contracted a highly virulent strain of bird flu. This is the second mass culling in just over a month in Miyazaki ...

National Dec 27, 2016

Kumamoto finishes culling 93,000 chickens at scene of latest bird flu outbreak

The Kumamoto Prefectural Government finished culling around 93,000 chickens at a poultry farm Wednesday after tests confirmed Japan's latest bird flu outbreak. The farm in the town of Nankan reported to health authorities on Monday afternoon that a group of some 50 chickens was found ...

National / Science & Health Dec 1, 2016

Niigata records another bird flu outbreak; 230,000 chickens culled

In the latest case, around 100 chickens died between Tuesday and Wednesday morning at a farm in Joetsu on the Sea of Japan coast.

World Aug 17, 2015

Chicken war with U.S. shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers

by John Boudreau

Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the U.S. for the loss of almost $14,000 (¥1.7 million) this year. Farmers such as Tuyen say the only way American companies can undercut Vietnamese poultry prices is if they export chicken at artificially ...