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Guide Health: Which iron is the right iron?

Symptoms of iron deficiency and choosing the right supplement for your needs

By Marie Berry September 18, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes You need iron in your body for your red blood cells to have enough hemoglobin to carry oxygen through the blood system to your cells. A reduced number of red blood cells (i.e. erythrocytes) is called anemia. Iron-deficient anemia is the result of low iron levels. Your body contains about 3.5 grams of iron, of […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

McDonald’s investor wants it to cut antibiotics in all meats

By Lisa Baertlein September 18, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Los Angeles | Reuters –– A McDonald’s Corp. shareholder group is renewing its call for the fast-food chain to stop buying any meat from animals raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections. The move from the Congregation of Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas, comes amid growing concern from public health experts that the overuse […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Study alleges U.S. fast food still mostly raised on antibiotics

By Lisa Baertlein September 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Los Angeles | Reuters –– Most large U.S. fast-food chains still serve meat from farm animals that have been routinely fed antibiotics, consumer groups said in a new report, which concluded that many companies have not yet laid out plans to curb the practice. Subway, Starbucks, KFC and Domino’s Pizza were among the industry leaders […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Wal-Mart urges meat suppliers to curb antibiotic use

By Nathan Layne, P.J. Huffstutter May 22, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Wal-Mart Stores is pressing meat, seafood, dairy and egg suppliers to reduce the use of antibiotics, becoming the first large retailer to take a stand against the excessive use of drugs in raising farm animals. The guidelines announced on Friday would limit suppliers to using antibiotics to treat and prevent disease, […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Hog farmers more likely to carry resistant bacteria, U.S. study shows

By Tom Polansek May 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Hog farmers are six times more likely than the general population to carry an infectious bacteria that can cause skin and respiratory problems and resists treatment from multiple drugs, according to a new U.S. research study. The study, published this week in the online journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, is the largest-ever […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Tyson to end use of human antibiotics in U.S. chickens by 2017

By P.J. Huffstutter April 28, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. poultry producer, plans to eliminate use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by September 2017, one of the most aggressive timetables yet set by an American poultry company. The Arkansas-based chicken and meat company also said Tuesday it is working on ways to curtail such […] Read more

Livestock

Rules planned to rein in antibiotic use for livestock

By Country Guide Staff April 17, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Health Canada is making its first move on new regulations to limit livestock producers’ own-use imports of veterinary drugs, and to tighten veterinary oversight of medicated livestock feed and water. Proposed changes to the federal Food and Drug Regulations and Feeds Regulations, announced Friday, tie into Health Minister Rona Ambrose’s federal action plan on antimicrobial […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. meat industry bought more human antibiotics to 2013, FDA says

By P.J. Huffstutter April 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Sales of medically important antibiotics in the U.S. for use in livestock jumped by 20 per cent between 2009 and 2013, federal regulators said on Friday, although recent statements by producers suggest those figures could be dropping. Between 2012 and 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said its annual report, […] Read more

Health

Guide Health: Are you at risk for tuberculosis?

The risk of contracting tuberculosis is small, however, about 1,600 new cases are reported in Canada each year

By Marie Berry March 20, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Often simply called TB, tuberculosis also used to be called “consumption” and you are probably familiar with the symptoms from movies and books. These symptoms include a long-lasting cough, chest pain, coughing up blood, and weakness. In 1926, health reports cited tuberculosis as the cause of one out of every 13 deaths. Historically, it was […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

KFC faces pressure after McDonald’s says no antibiotics in chicken

By Lisa Baertlein, P.J. Huffstutter March 12, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Los Angeles/Chicago | Reuters — KFC, the world’s largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald’s said it would switch to chicken raised without human antibiotics. McDonald’s will phase out chicken raised with antibiotics that are important to human health […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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