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Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study finds
Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world's most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea, scientists have found. The study found a dramatic increase in the exchange of campylobacter strains between wild birds and chickens as…
Kelvin Fletcher shares plans for future after bittersweet farm farewell
Kelvin Fletcher reflected on the farm's future after saying a bittersweet farewell. During a repeat episode of Fletcher's Family Farm, which aired on Monday night, Kelvin left his wife, Liz, in shock after he sold their goats without telling her.
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Industrial chicken farming drives evolution of foodborne bacteria strains
A new study by the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research, University of Oxford, reveals that industrial poultry farming has led to more than 100-fold increase in the movement of Campylobacter, allowing strains that once circulated in…
Factory farming could be fuelling spread of disease which causes food poisoning
Factory-farmed chicken has led to more than a 100-fold increase in a common disease that causes food poisoning, a study has suggested. More than a billion chickens are produced and slaughtered for meat each year in the UK. Researchers have found…
AI's latest problem is deepfake disaster content for farming engagement
Social feeds around the earthquakes in Venezuela filled with recycled footage and AI-generated destruction. Severe weather in China attracted its own wave of AI disaster videos, including fabricated flood scenes and false reports of power outages.
The many brands of Taylor Farms, suspected source of America's diarrhea lettuce
Taylor Farms is the suspected source of the 'diarrhea lettuce' linked to the ongoing outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, now entering more states as it exits more American guts. Taco Bell was just the first outlet to go public, though, and Taylor Farms has…
Oxfordshire: Industrial poultry farming increasing food poisoning, study suggests
Campylobacter, the most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea worldwide, often affects people after they eat undercooked chicken or untreated water. It usually spreads through undercooked poultry, unpasteurized milk, or untreated water. Most people…
McConnell to skip 'Fancy Farm' picnic; Physician says he's not cleared to return to Senate
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Monday that he will miss the Fancy Farm annual picnic in Kentucky, the state's premier political event which he has attended for more than 40 years, as he recovers from a serious fall he suffered at his…
Taylor Farms' White House Ties Queried by Top Democrat Amid Outbreak
Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is demanding records from Taylor Farms as he questions whether the lettuce producer sought to influence the federal cyclospora investigation through its White House…
Cringe '90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed
Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative long haired slacker. They were cult figures in the '90s. Most…
Devastation' as 7 pedigree cows stolen from farm in 'organised operation
Seven pedigree cows were stolen from a 'devastated' farm in Ripley as part of a meticulously planned operation by thieves. Wharfedale Farmers Auction Mart issued a statement about the 'planned, organised operation' carried out sometime during the…
Rajasthan formulating new strategies for value addition to farm produce
The Rajasthan government is formulating new strategies for food processing and value addition to agricultural produce in an attempt to transform agricultural potential into economic prosperity. A stakeholders' consultation held here on Monday laid…
Market Mondays: Nonprofit Soul Food Project fosters community growth via urban farming
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On the eastside of Indianapolis, a nonprofit farm named Soul Food Project is doing more than just growing food—it's cultivating a movement. Led by a mission to connect sustainable farming with community…
Canary Islands plan for 'world's first octopus farm' scrapped after huge row
Plans for the first commercial octopus farm have been abandoned following years of pressure The world's first octopus farm has been scrapped over a 'cruel' slaughter method. Plans for the first commercial octopus farm on the planet have now been…
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