The chicken traders in the city said that the hike in the retails prices was because of the rising wholesale market rates. There is a requirement of about three lakh metric tonnes of chicken feed per year in the state, according to West Bengal Poultry Federation sources.
August 27, 2021The state government has also alerted the administrations of all the 38 districts in Bihar to keep a tab on the developments.
January 13, 2021Besides Uttar Pradesh, the other six states where bird flu is confirmed are Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat.
January 10, 2021Poultries all over the world use chemicals as yolk colour enhancers, so when you eat it, you could be paving the way to cancer.
May 11, 2020The government’s move to seek clarification on the matter comes at a time when rumours circulating on social media about broiler chicken being infected with coronavirus gained momentum.
February 11, 2020Why not see the world through a new lens and realise that all of us are the same? It will make it easier for you not to make them suffer, or tolerate people and decisions that make them suffer.
October 5, 2019Acute arsenic poisoning can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, watery diarrhoea containing blood, cardiac problems, destruction of red blood cells, vertigo, delirium, shock, coma and death.
November 18, 2018Most people do not realise that big pharmaceutical companies all have a veterinary division in which they make hormones and antibiotics for animals raised for food. But the danger to human beings is acute.
May 20, 2018The new outlet of Barbeque Nation sets the benchmark for serving grills on the table.
May 13, 2018With meat from carcass continuing to haunt the investigators, South 24-Parganas police in pursuit of the kingpins behind the supply of the same has formed a 10- member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to book the culprits running the racket in the city and the various areas of South and North 24 Parganas. Informing the formation …
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May 1, 2018Quite the most charitable construct that can be placed upon the handling of the chicken deaths in West Bengal and the very real risk of food poisoning is that the government has woken up late. To say this is not to be alarmist; only to underline the Chief Minister’s verbal demarche to the Secretary, Animal …
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March 24, 2018The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health officers on Tuesday began a food safety drive wherein they collected samples of raw and cooked chicken to send them for tests in the civic body laboratories to check for presence of any chemical substance that is being used for preservation purposes. The civic body has started a food …
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March 21, 2018Some of the safety concerns are even higher in the case of non-vegetarian food. The heavy use of antibiotics in poultry feed has been a big concern in recent times but in addition we should also look at the conditions in which a lot of birds and animals are kept. Chickens are placed so close …
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March 15, 2018The pepper chicken dish was served with two small buns along with a small cup with the pepper gravy.
January 2, 2018Is the chicken you get in commercial large scale food vendors in products like sandwiches, healthy? Subway is a group that targets health conscious folk, who avoid other fast food. Is it healthy? A recent investigation by CBC Marketplace shows that the chicken used in Subway chicken sandwiches is only 42.8 per cent chicken. The …
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November 12, 2017One of the most important reports to come out in the last few years is the August 2017 CSIR-NEERI report on poultry farms in India. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is an excellent scientific research institution. When I was Minister for the Environment I used them as my resource base. The report has …
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November 5, 2017Chicken appears to have bowed out from the dining tables in Kerala with chicken sellers up in arms against Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac who has demanded that they sell the meat at Rs.87 a kg under the GST. Across the state, from Monday onwards chicken sellers have begun an indefinite strike saying that it …
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July 10, 2017