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Turkeys
Disease
Takes Wing
James Carroll, in Common Dreams from Boston Globe, commentary — February
2006
If birds are not a friend to the human
species, where in all of nature is friendship to
be found? Each day come more reports of the dispersal
of diseased poultry and fowl, moving from east to
west, Asia into Europe, and alarms begin to sound...
Scientists
Study Genes for Tastier Turkeys
Washington Times, feature — November
2004
Surmounting
the sex problem poses a bigger challenge. Because
the toms' breasts are so big, female turkeys need
to be artificially inseminated. Identifying sex genes
vital to reproduction would be a start, researchers
say...
Something
Fowl in the Air — Poultry Industry Contamination
Lundy & Davis,
PR Newswire, feature — January
2003
Lundy
says their environmental and health surveys have found extremely
alarming levels of toxic contamination and disease incidence
in Prairie Grove, all of which can be directly linked back
to the poultry industry’s negligent management and disposal
of chicken litter...
Inside
a Turkey Factory
Jim Mason, investigation — Winter
1997
They
put me to work first in the pit, grabbing and "breaking" hens.
One "breaks" a hen by holding her breast
down, legs down, tail up so that her cloaca or "vent" opens.
This makes it easier for the inseminator to insert
the tube and deliver a "shot" of semen...
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