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Fear Over Dioxin-Tainted Eggs Spreads in Europe

A scare over eggs that may have been tainted with dioxin at more than 4,700 German farms has spread to the Netherlands and the U.K., where some of the eggs were shipped. European Union officials say the public should not be too worried about the levels of dioxin in the eggs, but they are also trying to determine which...

Top 10 PETA Stunts of 2010

It's been another productive year for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, the Norfolk, Va., organization that exports its wacky brand of performance activism to the rest of the world. In case you missed it, some good people who care deeply about vegetables did some very good things in the nude in...

Shellshocked: Chicken Lays Monster Egg

(Dec. 9) -- Poached or over easy? A woman and her husband were left with their brains scrambled after discovering a huge 4-inch-long egg laid by one of their chickens. Patricia Mae of Seven Sisters, South Wales, in the U.K., thought her husband, James, was pulling her leg when he told her about the large egg last month,...

Chicken Sweaters: Kindly Brits Knit for Needy Birds

(Dec. 1) -- In most places, a featherless chicken soon gets eaten. In England, it gets a sweater. For the past several months, a small group of knitters in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, have been knitting sweaters for featherless hens rescued from British poultry farms. The group has even staged two "knit-ins," in...

Two Poultry Producers Plan Less Stressful Slaughters

(Oct. 22) -- Two of the nation's top chicken producers are switching to a different method of slaughter they say is more humane, betting that doing so will be good both for the birds and for business. The New York Times reports that Bell & Evans and Mary's Chickens will begin using an anesthetic-like gas on their chickens...

Background on chickens

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird.

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