| March 30, 2007 | - U.S. government health officials warned of the risk of salmonella from live Easter chicks.
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AP via local6.com
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| August 26, 2006 | -
Venezuelan customs officials confiscated twenty U.S. diplomatic mail bags containing airplane ejector seats, explosive charges, and 180 pounds of chicken.
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New York Times
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| August 2, 2006 | - At least 25,000 chickens died in Indiana from the heat.
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CNN
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| July 13, 2006 | - A chicken in Kazakhstan laid an egg with the word “Allah” in Arabic on its shell. “We'll keep this egg,” said a farmer, “and we don't think it'll go bad.”
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The Scotsman
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| February 4, 2006 | - A man ate 173 chicken wings in Philadelphia.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| November 9, 2005 | -
Kentucky Fried Chicken was creating a series of ads, to be broadcast during a bird-flu epidemic, to reassure customers that its chicken is safe to eat.
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Great Falls Tribune
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| May 31, 2005 | - In California, the owners of a chicken were fined for letting it cross the road; the fine was later dismissed.
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Herald Sun
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| May 30, 2005 | - Seven hundred thousand chickens expired during a power blackout in Moscow that cut off their ventilation; not long afterward the dead chickens started exploding.
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Pravda
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| May 17, 2005 | - Researchers in Singapore developed a system that allows people to pet chickens over the Internet.
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Wired News
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| February 20, 2005 | - Scientists were waiting for H5N1, an avian flu virus that has killed forty-one people in Thailand and Vietnam, to mutate into a form that can spread more rapidly among humans. If that happens, the flu is expected to kill tens of millions worldwide. Thailand rejected a plan to slow the spread of the flu because the plan's execution—which called for the destruction of millions of possibly infected ducks and chickens and the distribution of face masks—would alarm the public.
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The Independent
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| October 20, 2004 | - Twenty-three tigers died in a Thai zoo after they were fed infected
chickens.
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Associated Press
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| October 13, 2004 | - A tractor-trailer accident spilled hundreds of live chickens onto the New Jersey Turnpike.
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | - A chicken
farmer in Alaska
injected eggs with dye to produce orange, red, green, purple, pink, and blue chicks. Colored ducklings were also available.
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BBC
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| April 6, 2004 | -
Canada ordered the slaughter of 19 million chickens, turkeys, and ducks to stop the spread of bird flu.
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New York Times
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| March 9, 2004 | - The British Nutrition Foundation reported that McDonald's new Caesar salad with Chicken Premiere contains 18.4 grams of fat, whereas a cheeseburger contains only 11.5 grams.
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CNN
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| February 27, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration banned the feeding of cattle blood to calves. Dinner scraps from restaurants, known as "plate waste," will no longer be fed to cattle either, though rendered cows will still be fed to pigs and chickens, and vice versa.
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New York Times
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| February 7, 2004 | - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand declared that Saturday was "Eat Chicken Day."
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BBC
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| January 26, 2004 | -
Indonesia said that millions of chickens had died of the flu in recent weeks, and workers in Thailand were bagging live chickens and burying them in pits.
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New York Times
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| January 26, 2004 | -
Indonesia's agriculture minister said that his government can't afford to dispose of the dead chickens.
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Laksamana.net
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| January 7, 2004 | - A man wearing a chicken>
suit robbed a grocery store in Columbus, Ohio.
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NBC5.com
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| December 31, 2003 | - In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve tissue from cows older than 30 months. Downer cows may no longer be eaten by humans, though they will be boiled down and fed to chickens and pigs, and younger cow brains may still be eaten.
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Forbes, New York Times
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| December 24, 2003 | -
Mad cow disease was discovered in the United States for the first time, in a Holstein cow that was too sick to walk but was nonetheless slaughtered and sold for meat. The mad Holstein's brain and spinal column were sent to a rendering plant somewhere, possibly to be turned into dog or chicken food; there was no word on whether the cow's blood was processed to be fed to young calves as a milk supplement. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venemen, a former lobbyist for the beef industry, insisted that even meat from a mad cow is safe to eat, and she promised to feed beef to her family for Christmas.
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Guardian, New York Times
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| December 3, 2003 | - A postcard-size dinner menu from the
Titanic
sold for $49,500; the menu listed salmon, consommé mirrette, sweetbreads, roast chicken, spring lamb, golden plover on toast, and peaches.
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Scotsman.com, Reuters
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| November 21, 2003 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Great Britain, along with 650 companions, including five personal chefs, but was unable to move freely in the country because of massive protests. At Buckingham Palace the president dined on roasted halibut with herbs, free-range chicken, potatoes cocotte, salad, and a sorbet bombe but presumably skipped the Puligny-Montrachet and the Veuve Clicquot, Gold Label, 1995. Truck bombs blew up the British Consulate and a British bank in Istanbul, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds. Bloody victims ran screaming through the streets. Two hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners were bombed as was the headquarters of a pro-American Kurdish group in Kirkuk.
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New York Times, Daily Telegraph
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| November 5, 2003 | -
Chicken
researchers found that cockerels "allocate sperm differently according to the quality of copulation"; new mates tend to receive more sperm than familiar partners, and the cocks also increase their sperm deposits in the presence of other males. The study was conducted by putting a special harness on females to collect fresh ejaculate.
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New Scientist
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| September 13, 2003 | - Two hundred chickens were beaten to death with a golf club near Brisbane, Australia.
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Courier-Mail
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| July 25, 2003 | - A folksinger was banned from performing at a Border's bookstore in Fredericksburg, Virginia, after she opined between songs that President Bush has "chicken legs" and would be well advised to lift weights.
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Newsday
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| June 13, 2003 | -
ConAgra Foods Poultry recalled 129,000 pounds of chicken because it contains glass.
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Associated Press
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| May 9, 2003 | - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a "partial moratorium" on its boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a division of Yum Brands, after the company agreed to several demands, such as putting cameras in slaughterhouses to make sure the chickens are butchered as humanely as possible.
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New York Times
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| May 7, 2003 | - A special federal and state task force was offering grief therapy to farmers in California whose chickens and other fowl were killed to stop the spread of Exotic Newcastle Disease.
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Associated Press
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| March 18, 2003 | -
After the deaths of the chickens that were supposed to act as chemical-weapons detectors for American Marines, the troops were being equipped with pigeons that will perform the same service, if they can survive in the deserts of Mesopotamia.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken was called off after all but two of the Poultry Chemical Confirmation Devices died.
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| February 25, 2003 | -
A Hong Kong man died of a chicken-borne flu.
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| February 25, 2003 | -
U.S. Marines, in what has been called Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken, are planning to use “Poultry Chemical Confirmation Devices” as part of an early-warning system against chemical weapons; the devices, which consist of chickens in cages, will be installed on top of the Marines' Humvees before they roar off into battle.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
Environmental and consumer groups said that the contamination and subsequent recall by Pilgrim's Pride of 27.4 million pounds of cooked turkey and chicken was the result of weak food-safety standards, and called for more inspections.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
An Australian fast-food restaurant was under fire for an advertisement that joked that the hunger-striking Afghan detainees in Woomera prison camps had decided to unsew their lips after hearing about the restaurant's chicken combo giveaway.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Hundreds of women ended a peaceful ten-day occupation of ChevronTexaco's main oil terminal in Nigeria that resulted in the company's promise to build schools, clinics, town halls, electricity and water systems, and chicken farms for the local residents; about 700 workers had been trapped inside the terminal. “I give one piece of advice to all women in all countries,” said the leader of the demonstration. “They shouldn't let any company cheat them.”
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| May 28, 2002 | -
The Irish Food Safety Authority reported finding bovine and porcine DNA in a significant percentage of chicken fillets, leading to fears that mad cow disease could be transmitted via chicken meat.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
The New York Times reported on its front page, just a few inches below a picture of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center, that editors of the various international editions of Cosmopolitan magazine had descended on Manhattan to sit at the feet of the sages of the Hearst Corporation and were told that “beefcake” is “what's hot now.” Israeli scientists unveiled their new genetically modified featherless chickens, which are supposed to be cheaper to kill, as they need not be plucked, though the naked birds have been unable to mate, because the males cannot flap their wings, and they are vulnerable to mosquito attacks and disease, and they fall down stunned if they happen to wander out into the sunlight.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Padshah Khan Zadran, an Afghan warlord who has received American support and whose brother is a minister in the national government, fired 200 rockets into Gardez, killing 25 people, mostly women and children.
Zadran was mad at the people there and recently said he would “kill them all: men, women, children, even the chickens.” America regained its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Fifty members of the National Movement of Anti-U.S. Chicken Legs demonstrated in front of the American embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, where they burned a giant chicken leg.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
An appeals court in California ruled that a “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” contestant was not libeled when two radio announcers in San Francisco called her a “local loser,” a “big skank,” and a “chicken-butt.” The court said that the terms were “too vague to be capable of being proven true or false.”
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| April 16, 2002 | -
Russia's agriculture minister was still refusing to lift a ban on American chickens.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
In Egypt, an angry crowd was prevented from reaching the Israeli embassy, so it vandalized a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant instead.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Giant Food Stores of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was in trouble for putting up a sign that read: “In honor of Black History Month, we at Giant are offering a special savings on fried chicken.”
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| December 4, 2001 | - A former assistant director called Ashcroft's tactics “ridiculous” and “the Perry Mason School of Law Enforcement.” Robert Durst, a fugitive millionaire from New York, was arrested in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after he was caught shoplifting a Band-Aid for a cut under his nose, a newspaper, and a chicken salad hero with roasted peppers.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
President Bush, who has taken to using the phrase “the Bush doctrine” to describe his war on terrorism, collected $1 donations from American schoolchildren to help feed starving Afghan refugee children. He praised a young girl from Virginia who raised $45 by feeding chickens.
“One way to fight evil is to fight it with kindness and love and compassion,” he said.
“Winter arrives early in Afghanistan.
It's cold, really cold, and the children need warm clothing and they need medicines.
And thanks to the American children, fewer children in Afghanistan will suffer this winter.” That day, at least one American bomb landed in the Red Cross compound in Kabul, setting several warehouses on fire.
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| October 23, 2001 | - Three new studies found that the chicken, beef, turkey, and pork sold in American supermarkets commonly contain antibiotic-resistant strains of dangerous bacteria.
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| August 21, 2001 | - Poultry companies were planning to make billions of chicken
clones.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Billy Barnes, an eight-year-old Canadian boy who was suspended from school for pointing a chicken finger at another child and saying “Bang,” was declared innocent by his local school board.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Forty-six thousand pounds of chicken blocked traffic on a Houston freeway after a truck turned over; the driver lost control while lighting a cigarette; dozens of drivers stuffed boxes of processed chicken products into their cars, ignoring warnings about contamination.
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| February 6, 2001 | - In Jonesboro, Arkansas, an eight-year-old boy was suspended for three days for pointing a chicken finger at a teacher and saying “Pow, pow, pow.” The principal who signed the expulsion order said punishment in such cases varies by the tone of the threat: “It's not the object in the hand,” he said, “it's the thought in the mind.”
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| January 16, 2001 | - The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics are given each year to healthy farm
animals such as cows, chickens, and pigs; the group warned that such practices encourage the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The Scottish scientists who made Dolly, the famous sheep clone, announced a plan to make genetically modified chickens that will lay eggs containing drugs.
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| October 31, 2000 | - The Food and Drug Administration proposed banning two antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which are given to whole flocks of chickens in their water, because they cause camplyobacter bacteria to develop a resistance to antibiotics.
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