Experts recommend safe, regulated use of antibiotics at poultry industry round table

A complete ban on use of antibiotics was not advisable or feasible, participants say

Follow Up

Avian-flu drug in the making

Avian havoc

Bird flu cases soaring in Vietnam

Glycerin will be future chickenfeed

Counting chickens

Fowl play

January 3, and all is not well in Hong Kong. With four people dead, and 11 confirmed and six suspected cases of A (H5N1) infection, the new …

What is the environmental cost of factory-farmed meat?

Across the four hot spots, the annual consumption of chicken creates the same climate change impact as keeping 29 million cars on the road for a year

Antibiotic misuse in India’s livestock sector can be reduced

Awareness of farmers, legislation for clean sanitary practices in animal farms and its strict implementation can do the trick

A possible Indo-US trade agreement would be an imperialist attack on India’s farmers

Such a deal will have repercussions on our agricultural production and economy

Scientists map black swan genome to better understand immune response

Black swans are highly susceptible to the bird flu virus and the scientists hope to uncover clues to prevent the next pandemic

H5 pandemic in the making? Minks may become the bird flu vector for humans

Spain’s bird flu outbreak in minks hints at a mutating virus    

Regulation of GM food subject to life inside it: Activists decry Centre’s strange decision

The government must uphold its duty to regulate the environment, health and nature, activists say as a consignment of GM soya gets clearance

Farmers oppose WTO

Avian flu flitting from birds to humans

Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen's human-to-human …

Migratory birds fly flu-free

Rome meet says poultry and unregulated trade cause spread of avian flu

Bird flu hits West Bengal again

Superbug resistant to antibiotics found in dead World War I soldier

Over the years, the strain of the bacterium acquired mutations that made it more dangerous and persistent

Why save the rooster?

In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and …

Unsafe or secure?

Amid the gloom surrounding RJF data, an experiment in Haryana gives some hope

Poultry business too serious to be left to industry

Birds of a feather

Is the RJF extinct in the wild?

Hatching Superbugs

At a time when chicken consumption is at an all time high in India, a study by Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment shows poultry …

Waste no more

Bangladesh backyard poultry hit by bird flu