Domesticated chickens have smaller brains
(Link ö ping University) Researchers from Link ö ping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the junglefowl with least fear of humans for 10 generations, the offspring acquired smaller brains and found it easier to become accustomed to frightening but non-hazardous events. The results shed new light over how domestication may have changed animals so much in a relatively short time.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

He turned his concrete patio in East L.A. into an edible garden with fruit trees
His East L.A. backyard is mostly concrete, but Ken Sparks has transformed the hardscape into something alive, with chickens, a butterfly garden and organic vegetables.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - August 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lisa Boone Source Type: news

You Probably Won ’t Catch the Coronavirus From Frozen Food
Reports that the virus was detected in a trans-continental shipment of frozen chicken wings sparked concerns online. But experts aren ’t worried.
Source: NYT Health - August 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine J. Wu Tags: Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Food Contamination and Poisoning Containers and Packaging Chickens your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news

Slim Chickens CEO Sees Different Strategies Used in Pandemic
As the leader of a multinational company, Tom Gordon, co-founder and CEO of the fast-casual restaurant chain Slim Chickens, has a better perspective than many on government handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - July 27, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: news

New backyard chicken fad has risks, warns veterinarian
An infectious disease veterinarian who warns that raising chickens and other kinds poultry can be risky is advocating for good education.
Source: CBC | Health - July 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/PEI Source Type: news

The Fourth of July Weekend Threw America ’s Coronavirus Failures Into Stark Relief
If you’re American, you can be forgiven if you didn’t particularly feel like celebrating your country during this year’s Fourth of July holiday. If you’re not, your feelings toward the U.S., whether pity or schadenfreude, are understandable. The majority of the other early epicenters of the pandemic have largely figured this out, their curves crashing downwards and a sense of optimism returning and civic pride growing. But the U.S., despite being perhaps the nation best prepared to handle a pandemic of this scale and scope, has epically foundered. On July 2, the U.S. tallied over 50,000 new daily ca...
Source: TIME: Health - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elijah Wolfson Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to SARS-coronavirus 2
In this study, we investigated the susceptibility of ferrets and animals in close contact with humans to SARS-CoV-2. We found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but ferrets and cats are permissive to infection. Additionally, cats are susceptible to airborne transmission. Our study provides insights into the animal models for SARS-CoV-2 and animal management for COVID-19 control.
Source: ScienceNOW - May 27, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Shi, J., Wen, Z., Zhong, G., Yang, H., Wang, C., Huang, B., Liu, R., He, X., Shuai, L., Sun, Z., Zhao, Y., Liu, P., Liang, L., Cui, P., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Guan, Y., Tan, W., Wu, G., Chen, H., Bu, Z. Tags: Microbiology reports Source Type: news

Past is prologue: Genetic 'memory' of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt
(University of Michigan) Organisms carry long-term 'memories' of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an adjacent lowland site.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 22, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news

‘Passing the Buck’ Becomes Reckless ‘Conspiracy Blame Game’
Street checkpoint in Wuhan, China. Credit: UNVBy Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 2020 (IPS) Although Wuhan local authorities undoubtedly ostracized local medical whistle-blowers, notably Dr Li Wenliang, who suspected a new virus was responsible for flu-like infections in Wuhan in late 2019, official responses were apparently not delayed, and possibly even expedited, as the novel character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for Covid-19 infections, was not immediately self-evident. On 12 January this year, China publicly shared the genetic sequence for Covid-19 with the world. On 11 ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Crime & Justice Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Your Chicken Is No Longer Pink. That Doesn ’t Mean It’s Safe to Eat.
Next time you cook chicken, don ’t rely on the color of the meat to tell you if it’s cooked enough to avoid food poisoning.
Source: NYT Health - May 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JoAnna Klein Tags: Chickens Cooking and Cookbooks Food Contamination and Poisoning Salmonella (Bacteria) Meat Home Appliances Research Langsrud, Solveig PLoS One (Journal) your-feed-science Source Type: news

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 piglets he expected from his breeding operation. The crisis forced a decision that still troubles him: He ordered his employees to give injections to the pregnant sows, one by one, that would cause them to abort their baby pigs.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Farmers forced to euthanize livestock as coronavirus strikes food service industry
Poultry farmers in Delaware and Maryland say they are being forced to destroy 2 million chickens because there aren't enough healthy employees to process them. This follows a warning by the head of Tyson Foods, who said the nation's food supply chain is breaking down as the coronavirus sweeps through meat packing plants. Manuel Bojorquez has a look.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - April 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New York bistro owner finds lifeline in rotisserie chickens
What started as a popup venture before the coronavirus crisis can "became something that can grow" for the future.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - April 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

‘It’s a Bucket Brigade on a Five-Alarm Fire.’ Food Banks Struggle to Keep Up With Skyrocketing Demand
In a matter of five months, 47-year-old Aquanna Quarles saw her personal finances implode. In December, she totaled her car. In February, the car she replaced the totaled one with was stolen. And in early March, her kitchen flooded, destroying the food in her cabinets and the small appliances on top of them. Quarles remembers thinking, “Oh my God, like what else could go wrong?” Then the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States. In mid-March, the state of Ohio, where Quarles lives, began issuing stay-at-home orders, shuttering shops and businesses, and by the end of the month, the rest of the ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abby Vesoulis / Dayton, Ohio Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

No Space for Social Distancing in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Mohammad Rafique (right) and other refugee children gathered at the Rohingya market in Kutupalong camp to sell vegetables he brought earlier from a local market in this photo dated Mar. 11, 2020. This was two weeks before Bangladesh went into a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS By Rafiqul IslamCOX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) Nine-year-old Mohammad Rafique used to collect vegetables from Kutupalong Bazaar and sell them at a market inside Kutupalong camp, a camp of some 600,000 Rohingyas, in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar. But nowadays he has to s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rafiqul Islam Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Coronavirus COVID-19 Rohingya Tales of the 21st Centur Source Type: news

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