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Health reform uncertainty stalls businesses' plans
2013-09-08 04:40:36| Paper - Topix.net
Two growing Hampton Roads business owners believe health-care reform may give them more work if companies decide to cut employees and hire outside contractors for janitorial services.
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plans
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Oregon wave energy stalls off the coast of Reedsport
2013-09-02 17:12:41| Energy - Topix.net
Last September, with great fanfare, Ocean Power Technologies began construction on America's first wave-powered utility.
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coast
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oregon
Learning from Other Countries about Antibiotics, Sow Stalls
2013-08-09 22:37:00| National Hog Farmer
The United States is not the only country wrestling with issues, such as use of both antibiotics in livestock production, and gestation stalls. This week Scott Hurd, DVM, associate professor and director of the Food Risk Modeling and Policy Laboratory at Iowa State Universitys College of Veterinary Medicine, makes some valid points about the rest of the story after Denmark banned preventive and growth-promoting antibiotics for pigs in 2000. In over 20 years of food safety research, I have seen quite a few antibiotic-free (ABF) animals, including the famous pigs in Denmark, he writes in his Hurd Health blog. While working in the processing plant, I could often tell when ABF pigs were coming down the line. The animals from the ABF farms usually appeared somewhat unthrifty. Often there was less uniformity in carcass size and more issues. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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countries
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HumaneWatch Offers the Truth on Sow Stalls
2013-08-07 22:01:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: HumaneWatch The HumaneWatch project is releasing a new video in its campaign to curb misinformation about individual maternity pens (sow stalls) used in pork — yes, that means bacon — production that have come under attack by the Humane Society of the United States. read more
Utah Farm Phases out Sow Stalls
2013-08-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Consumer concerns have prompted the massive Utah hog operation, Circle Four Farms, and 459 other farms operated by the world’s largest pork supplier to phase out cages so small that breeding pigs cannot turn around or move.
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