Agriculture is being targeted for many ills ranging from obesity to water pollution. Now the Food and Agriculture Organization has piled on with a study claiming the sector is responsible for yet another adverse effect. Chlor Campaign Like parents withholding measles vaccine from their children, Europeans are convinced that America's poultry washed down during slaughter with antimicrobial chlorinated water will cause disease and death. This has frightened Europe's chlorine industry, which points out that its product is "a building block in thousands of products." Concerned that fear of chicken will spread to those thousands of other products, the industry has ramped up its media campaign in Europe. It says that chlorine helps "make life s...
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What You Need to Know Today: Oil prices surged today following reports of tanker attacks off the coast of Saudi Arabia by Houthi rebels and renewed U.S. threats to escalate military strikes against Iran, heightening concerns over potential disruptions to Middle East energy supplies. Brent crud...
Key Takeaways: The latest UN data shows solid progress reducing global hunger and food insecurity. The geography of hunger-affected people has shifted substantially, however, and Africa is now the most affected region. To understand why hunger patterns have shifted and what policy option...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report for 1 July will be released tomorrow. Analysts’ pre-report consensus estimates are for the total inventory on feed to be 102.2 percent of last year. Those estimates imply an on-feed inventory of 11.327 million head. If accurate, that would be the...