Poultry-vaccine producer has plans to grow
Waterville Morning Sentinel - 6/28/2009.By Larry Grard – WINSLOW – The world's fourth-largest producer of poultry vaccines says it has bucked the recession and is responding with a $4.2 million expansion. Lohmann Animal Health International Inc., which employs most of its 105 workers at its 375 China Road location, reported a 10 percent increase in sales from the previous year. |
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Council backs big changes in fish protection
Portland Press Herald - 6/26/2009.By John Richardson – New England's struggling fishing industry took a historic step Thursday toward privatizing fish populations in an effort to protect them. Regional fishery managers voted in favor of a new system that will allow groups of fishermen – called sectors – to catch certain percentages of the ocean's cod, haddock, flounder and other groundfish, starting next year. For the past 15 years, fishermen have caught as many fish as they could under increasingly tight limits on fishing days and other rules. |
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Antibiotics injected into chicken eggs is making Canadians resistant to meds
Organic Consumers - 6/25/2009. By Cathy Gulli, Macleans – Disturbing data from the Public Health Agency of Canada reveals that antibiotics such as cephalosporin used in chicken hatcheries across the country is causing human resistance to the medicines, according to a startling report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today. Surveillance information from the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance (CIPARS), which is funded by the public health agency, "strongly indicates that cephalosporin resistance in humans is moving in lockstep with use of the drug in poultry production," the CMAJ explains. |
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There's No Such Thing as Local vs. Organic Food
TreeHugger - 6/25/2009.By Timothy J. LaSalle, Rodale Institute – Let’s clear up one issue: There is no such thing as local vs. organic. When it comes to consumer choice, we should be buying local and organic, though for mostly different reasons. |
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