China’s government officials began the year with assurances to the world that 2013 would mark a new era of food safety. The bureaucrats were still patting each other on the back, when in March, a flotilla of 16,000 dead hogs bobbed ...
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Spin Master's Air Hogs flying vehicles brand is offering budding pilots the chance to fly a virtual Sky Stunt Air Hogs plane using Google Street View. Fans can watch and fly the plane above their home, work or any location they choose by ...
HOGS reaped operating revenue of USD 382.4 million in the first quarter of 2013, growing 2% over a year earlier. Net profits reached USD 10.6 million, falling 13%.
Brazilian meat producer JBS has agreed to acquire Unidade Industrial Ana Rech hog processing facility, 491,000 hogs and poultry farm assets from BRF Brasil Foods, in a deal worth BRL200m ($100m). Under the terms of the deal, JBS will pay ...
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It took just two weeks for this year's Toymaster show to sell out – beating the record which had been set in 2012, when all space had been filled by the end of January. This time round, however, the organisers revealed in ...
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Tianli Agritech, a Chinese producer of breeder hogs, market hogs and black hogs, has started the sale of its branded black hog products through retail outlets in Wuhan City. Currently, Tianli's black hog meat cuts are available in the ...
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Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Bob Combs has been playing with Las Vegas house money for 50 years. Every day, his 2,500 pigs eat the finest fare from the famed casinos of Sin City. Granted, it’s stirred into a pungent concoction that only a hog could love, but all ...
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Head ten minutes south of LAX on the 405, exit at El Segundo and you'll blunder upon a 200,000-square-foot concrete bunker lurking among the strip malls in this seedy bit of Los Angeles County. The low-slung structure, surrounded by a black ...
A full-size Air Hogs Sky Stunt plane will wow crowds in Florida from April 20th to 21st. The real life plane will be piloted by Jason Newburg at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show. Spin Master's Air Hogs R/C brand has the exclusive toy ...
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You've neglected it for ages, but now's the time to get rid of the household hazardous waste—oil-based paints, pesticides, automotive fluids, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, and more—that's lurking somewhere in your home. ...
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Despite the precision mechanics and computerization of modern agriculture, dogs are a part of farming and as it turns out, probably always have been. In an industry increasingly reliant on complex technology, dogs still herd sheep; watch ...
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Russia is set to impose a temporary ban on the import of US turkey over concerns about the use of ractopamine, a feed additive banned in Europe. According to Russia's Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS), the ban will ...
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Russia meat producer Cherkizovo has booked an increase in full-year sales volumes in two of its divisions. In the 12 months to the end of December, sales volumes in its poultry unit climbed 23% to around 319,210 tonnes of slaughter ...
Russia is set to impose ban on the imports of meat and meat products beginning 11 February over the concerns that they may contain ractopamine, a drug used in animal feed to promote leanness in cattle and hogs. Russia's animal and plant ...
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