chicken

Why Whole Foods Wants A Slower-Growing Chicken

1:54pm March 30, 2016

by Dan Charles

A modern broiler, or meat chicken, grows incredibly fast. The bird suffers as a result, and some critics say its flavor does too. Now Whole Foods wants its suppliers to shift to slower-growing breeds.

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USDA Imposes Stricter Limit On Salmonella Bacteria In Poultry Products

2:24pm February 04, 2016

by Dan Charles

The USDA says it will prevent 50,000 cases of illness each year. Skeptics say the agency needs to take a different approach to the salmonella problem because the current one has not worked very well.

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A chicken house in Seagrove, N.C. North Carolina is one of the country's largest poultry producers. As farms move closer to residential areas, neighbors are complaining that the waste generated is a potential health hazard.

When A Chicken Farm Moves Next Door, Odor May Not Be The Only Problem

6:19pm January 24, 2016

by Keri Brown

Large-scale poultry production is ramping up in North Carolina and getting closer to residential areas. Neighbors say the smells and pollution from these farms can make it hard to breathe.

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Goats and Soda Editor Marc Silver tried to interview the rescued hen, but she wouldn't make a peep.

NPR Rescued A Chicken That Tried To Cross The Road...

6:31pm November 09, 2015

by Marc Silver

And that led us to interview a chicken expert who shared some exciting news about chickens in the developing world.

Lee Perry-Gal measures chicken long bones at the zooarchaeology lab, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa.

The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens

1:51pm July 23, 2015

by Dan Charles

Chicken bones unearthed in Israel may mark a turning point in human cuisine: They could be the earliest evidence of people raising chickens for food, rather than cockfighting or use in ceremonies.

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Tyson Foods says it has already reduced its use of human-use antibiotics by 80 percent over the past four years. Here, Tyson frozen chicken on display at Piazza's market in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2010.

Tyson Foods To Stop Giving Chickens Antibiotics Used By Humans

5:07pm April 28, 2015

by Dan Charles

Antibiotic use is falling out of fashion in the poultry industry. Tyson Foods, the biggest poultry producer in the U.S., says it will stop feeding its birds human-use antibiotics in two years.

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Chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa, in 2009. This week, bird flu hit a large poultry facility in Iowa. It's not clear how the virus is evading the industry's biosecurity efforts.

Millions Of Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry

2:18pm April 27, 2015

by Dan Charles

A flu strain deadly to chickens and turkeys is striking farms in the West and Midwest. This week, it hit an Iowa facility with millions of egg-laying hens. No one knows how it's entering houses.

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The annual Courir de Mardi Gras in Mamou, La., in February 2008. In the Cajun country tradition, revelers go house to house, collecting ingredients for gumbo from local families. Here, the host tosses a live chicken from a rooftop for the participants to

Forget Beads: Cajun Mardi Gras Means A Grand, Drunken Chicken Chase

6:38pm February 17, 2015

by Eve Troeh

Courir de Mardi Gras is an old tradition in rural Louisiana. From early morning on, costumed revelers go house to house, drinking, singing and collecting ingredients for a big ole pot of gumbo.

European Activists Say They Don't Want Any U.S. 'Chlorine Chicken'

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Susanna Capelouto

Most U.S. poultry is bathed in a little chlorine on the way to your plate. But that treatment is banned in Europe. Now "chlorinated chickens" are a sticking point in a trans-Atlantic trade deal.

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Economy

House of Raeford Farms to re-open Mocksville poultry plant

6:40am May 28, 2014

As many as 200 jobs may be returning to Mocksville with the announcement Tuesday that a chicken processing plant is re-opening.

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