Poultry row! Moment brawl breaks out inside chicken shop

Poultry row! Moment brawl breaks out inside chicken shop after late night customer ‘treads on another’s TOE’ Footage from a chicken shop in Reigate, Surrey shows two groups brawling Violent scenes apparently sparked when one customer tread on another’s toe  Led to brutal clash between two groups of men, with punches flying throughout By Danyal … Read more

Eating meat or poultry three times a week can increase your risk of heart disease

Time to ditch the sausages? Eating meat or poultry just three times a week can increase your risk of heart disease, pneumonia and diabetes, study warns Oxford researchers studied medical records of almost half a million Britons  Middle-aged adults gave information on diet and was compared to their health Higher consumption of  meat every day was … Read more

Thousands of ducks are slaughtered at poultry farm in Norfolk after outbreak of bird flu

Thousands of ducks are slaughtered at poultry farm in Norfolk after third confirmed outbreak of bird flu this month 8,000 ducks at a Norfolk farm will be culled in a bid to stop spread of virus   A 3km and 10km temporary control zones have been declared around all the premises in Attleborough  Two other confirmed … Read more

Nearly nine in 10 meat and poultry workers infected with coronavirus were minorities, CDC finds

REVEALED: 87% of meat and poultry plant workers who were infected with coronavirus were minorities, CDC report finds More than 16,000 meat and poultry processing facility workers have tested positive for coronavirus Of the nearly 10,000 workers for whom racial and ethnic information were reported, 87% were minorities Five times as many Hispanic employees were … Read more

Costco limits the number of beef, poultry and pork products customers can buy

Costco said on Monday it had limited the number of beef, pork and poultry products customers can buy. Grocery stores are preparing for massive shortages of meat supplies following coronavirus induced supply disruptions.  Some of the biggest slaughterhouses in the United States have closed over the last few weeks as COVID-19 spread widely through meat … Read more

Shoppers are left ‘feeling sick’ after discovering discoloured meat inside fresh poultry 

‘My rotisserie chicken is green!’ Shoppers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons are left ‘feeling sick’ after discovering discoloured meat inside fresh poultry Consumers shared images on social media of the green tinted cooked chicken   The discolouration is thought to be caused by a disease where the muscles of inactive chicken are starved of oxygen when … Read more