and breeding program in NZ that aims to breed low methane-emitting ruminants without impacting other traits such as reproduction and wool and meat quality.
and importantly low-methane lines then need to be tested for stability of the trait as well as the absence of any impacts on fertility or meat or wool production.
Developing a method to detect E coli before it can potentially contaminate the food supply benefits the beef industry by preventing costly recalls
but also benefits the consumer by ensuring the safety of the beef supply Noll said. The newly developed test is a molecular assay
and beef safety Noll said. As a graduate student in veterinary biomedical sciences I am proud to be a member of a multidisciplinary team in the College of Veterinary medicine that aims to make beef a safe product for the consumers.
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what they eat--consume less red meat and sugar-sweetened beverages and more fruits vegetables and whole grains--they are going to improve their health
#Identifying cyst-laden meat: Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developedconsumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep
and goats may cause infection in humans. Researchers from Universiti Teknologi MARA have invented successfully a PCR kit
Sarcosytis spp are intracellular protozoan parasites acquired upon consumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep and goats.
and S. suihominis after ingesting raw meat from cattle and pigs respectively. Cases of human infection have been documented.
Definitive diagnosis with identification of sporocysts in feces requires multiple stool examinations several days after having eaten the meat.
This kit can be of invaluable help for large scale quick screening of meat for sarcocystis
. thus its value cannot be overemphasized for not only meat industry but also the ministry concerned with food and meat safety.
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#Estimated risk of breast cancer increases as red meat intake increases, study suggestsso far studies have suggested no significant association between red meat intake and breast cancer.
Red meat items included unprocessed red meat (beef pork or lamb and hamburger and processed red meat (such as hot dogs bacon and sausage;
poultry included chicken and turkey; fish included tuna salmon mackerel sardines; legumes included beans lentils and peas;
They estimated that for each step-by-step increase in the women's consumption of red meat there was a step-by-step increase in the risk of getting breast cancer over the 20 year study period.
For example the model estimated that there would be 493 cases of breast cancer over 306298 person years among women with the lowest intake of red meat.
This translated to an estimate that higher intake of red meat was associated with a 22%increased risk of breast cancer overall.
Each additional serving per day of red meat was associated with a 13%increase in risk of breast cancer (12%in premenopausal and 8%in postmenopausal women.
Substituting one serving per day of poultry for one serving per day of red meat--in the statistical model--was associated with a 17%lower risk of breast cancer overall and a 24%lower risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
Furthermore substituting one serving per day of combined legumes nuts poultry and fish for one serving per day of red meat was associated with a 14%lower risk of breast cancer overall and premenopausal breast cancer.
The authors conclude that higher red meat intake in early adulthood may be a risk factor for breast cancer
and replacing red meat with a combination of legumes poultry nuts and fish may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
#Pathway between gut, liver regulates bone mass: Biological process behind role of Vitamin b12 in bone formation unravelledresearchers have uncovered a previously unknown biological process involving Vitamin b12
But scientists from Yale the University of Central Florida and SUNY Buffalo State found that fungi
Professor Julian Partridge from Bristol's School of Biological sciences and the School of Animal Biology at the University of Western australia with his Bristol-based colleagues investigated
Professor Partridge said: Both pollinator and plant fitness is greatly dependent on the ability of pollinators to discriminate flowers accurately
or beef raised on deforested land. While these deforestation programs and policies proved effective Brazil took additional action through the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus pro-forest activities (REDD+)program in cooperation with Norway.
For example the soy and beef industry in Brazil thrived despite moratoria preventing deforestation Vietnam expanded agricultural production
For teens who consider pizza an entire food group finding a whole-wheat thin crust emphasizing veggies rather than high-fat meat like sausage
State university of New york-Buffalo; the Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic; the U s. National Center for Atmospheric Research;
In developing countries production of milk and meat have grown from 1970 to today at an average yearly rates of 5. 1 and 3. 6 percent respectively
Moreover livestock grazing systems are used also to produce meat and milk in areas unsuitable for crop production.
and upgrade their diets by adding more meat and processed foods to staples such as crops and starches.
and candy processed meats soft drinks juice and juice drinks plain milk and sweetened milk. The researchers found the total calories from food
.--which came first the chicken or the egg? After consideration Aristotle decided that both the egg
and the chicken had existed always. That was not the right answer. The new Oregon State university research is providing a little more detail.
and across vast numbers of species. Repeated vertebra that form a spinal column rows of teeth and groups of eyespots on butterfly wings are all examples of serial homologues.
Put another way it's easier to see how one breed of chicken evolved into a different breed of chicken rather than where chickens
Butterfly wings are helping to answer that question. These eyespots common to the butterfly Family nymphalidae now serve many butterflies in dual roles of both predator avoidance and mate identification.
and added to salad dressing mayonnaise or even processed meats like sausage. Its gelling properties will help make products that firm quickly
In our study women who ate protein-rich foods including lean meats fish and chicken as well as fruit whole grains and vegetables had significantly lower risk of preterm birth.
On the other hand women who consumed mainly discretionary foods such as takeaway potato chips cakes biscuits and other foods high in saturated fat and sugar were more likely to have born babies preterm Dr Grieger says.
#Transplant programs produce high one-year survival ratesin the latest national report on organ transplant outcomes patients receiving a new liver at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center had the best one-year
survival outcomes of all hospitals in the Los angeles region with 90%of liver transplant patients surviving beyond that important milestone.
and cows--that could produce meat milk or other foods rich in this essential fatty acid says Kang an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
The other 74 stands were being overcut or undercut. Overcutting ultimately results in diminished yield and quality of the wood but the effects of undercutting are subtler.
For consumers in developed countries halving food waste meat consumption and related feed use would not only benefit their health
Importantly they also believed you could cook firm Tofu just like chicken but you didn't have to worry about it spoiling said co-author Adam Brumberg.
in fact many estimated prices being as much as one dollar per pound higher than beef when asked to estimate the cost of a 1 pound block of Tofu.
and having them read the phrase Cooks Like Chicken made the non-users almost 50%more likely to say they'd be willing to try cooking with Tofu at home!
and filling and cooking like chicken. In no time they'll be making Tofu Scramble Stir fry and all the other dishes the Tofu lovers in the study listed as big parts of their diets.
What happens to meat prices when corn yields diminish? There are lots of tradeoffs involved in this issue.
and color can improve the microbiological safety of meats according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
and nanoparticles against foodborne pathogens associated with meat and poultry. The results demonstrate that the bacterial pathogens were inhibited significantly by the use of the antimicrobial films said Catherine Cutter professor of food science.
She hopes that the research will lead to the application of edible antimicrobial films to meat and poultry either before packaging or more likely as part of the packaging process.
Finally the researchers experimentally inoculated fresh and ready-to-eat meat and poultry products with bacterial pathogens treated them with the pullulan films containing the essential oils
or further-processed meat and poultry products said Cutter. The research shows that we can apply these food-grade films
but effective way to deliver antimicrobial agents to meats Cutter explained because the bacteria-killing action is longer lasting.
The pullulan films adhere to the meat allowing the incorporated antimicrobials to slowly dissolve providing immediate and sustained kill of bacteria.
Cutter conceded that pullulan films are not as oxygen-impermeable as plastic packaging now used to package meats so the edible films are not likely to replace that material.
The meat industry likes the properties of the polyethylene vacuum packaging materials that they are using now she said.
and keep bacteria in meat at bay further research will be aimed at creating what Cutter referred to as active packaging--polyethylene film with antimicrobial properties.
because marrying the two materials together in packaging would make foods--especially meat and poultry--safer to eat.
#How Brazilian cattle ranching policies can reduce deforestationthere is a higher cost to steaks and hamburgers than
Producing food--and beef in particular--is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions which are projected to grow as rising incomes in emerging economies lead to greater demands for meat.
But an encouraging new study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley and international collaborators finds that policies to support sustainable cattle ranching practices in Brazil could put a big dent in the beef and food industry's greenhouse
gas impact. The new study to be published Monday April 28 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that by subsidizing more productive use of pastureland
Local changes global impactover the past several decades Brazil has risen to become the largest beef exporter in the world.
when it comes to the production of beef. While the growth of cattle ranching has been blamed for 75 to 80 percent of Brazil's deforested areas particularly in the Amazon rainforest the study authors emphasize that many factors beyond beef production cause deforestation.
These include mining logging and the production of other agricultural crops. The researchers point out that roughly 200 million acres of cattle pastureland could be used more efficiently either for higher yield cattle ranching
whether policies affecting beef production will impact deforestation. We're the first to look at Brazil's national policies in an international context by asking what would happen
Exploring options and tradeoffsbecause beef is such a greenhouse-gas intensive food the researchers looked for unintended impacts such as lowering beef prices to the point where people want to consume more
or raising beef prices to the point where beef production is increased elsewhere. We did find that there was some increase in beef consumption with the policies
but one of the big takeaways from this study is that the effect is overshadowed by other gains in reducing deforestation
or drug abuse the condition--marked by scar tissue replacing healthy liver tissue--also can result from viral hepatitis obesity and diabetes as well as certain inherited diseases.
During liver cirrhosis Nrf2 should be induced by oxidative stress but for reasons unclear until this study this does not happen.
Somehow the protective mechanism mediated by Nrf2 is compromised by another factor other than Keap1 in liver cirrhosis. Adding to the mystery is the fact that drugs aimed at inhibiting Keap1 from chewing up Nrf2 have proven ineffective in a cirrhotic liver.
When Zhang and her colleagues studied tissue samples from a human cirrhotic liver they discovered the reason behind the inexplicably low Nrf2 levels in the face of rampant oxidative stress.
As liver cirrhosis progresses excessive inflammation triggers the garbage-mediated stress response and Hrd1 becomes very abundant
The study Hrd1 suppresses Nrf2-mediated cellular protection during liver cirrhosis is published in the April 1 issue of the journal Genes and Development.
if Europe were to decrease its consumption of meat and dairy products. It shows how much cutting down on meat
and dairy in our diets would reduce nitrogen air and water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while freeing up large areas of farmland for other purposes such as food export or bioenergy.
It also considers the health benefits of reduced meat consumption. The full report is published next month.
and Food at PBL (The netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) said The report shows that the nitrogen footprint of meat
If all people within the EU would halve their meat and dairy consumption this would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 25 to 40%and nitrogen emissions by 40%.
The present study shows that there is huge power for pollution control in simply reducing our meat and dairy consumption.
As global demand for beef and animal feed increased in the early 2000s annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged to more than 20000 km2 per year--prompting global outrage
Barnyard chickens living just a few hundred years ago looked far different from todays chickensancient DNA adds a twist to the story of how barnyard chickens came to be finds a study to be published April 21 in the journal Proceedings
Analyzing DNA from the bones of chickens that lived 200-2300 years ago in Europe researchers report that just a few hundred years ago domestic chickens may have looked far different from the chickens we know today.
The results suggest that some of the traits we associate with modern domestic chickens--such as their yellowish skin--only became widespread in the last 500 years much more recently than previously thought.
Chickens are descended from a wild bird called the Red Junglefowl that humans started raising roughly 4000-5000 years ago in South Asia.
To pinpoint the genetic changes that transformed this shy wild bird into the chickens we know today researchers analyzed DNA from the skeletal remains of 81 chickens retrieved from a dozen archeological sites across Europe dating from 200 to 2300 years old.
The researchers focused on two genes known to differ between domestic chickens and their wild counterparts:
Though the exact function of TSHR is unknown it may be linked to the domestic chicken's ability to lay eggs year-round--a trait that Red Junglefowl
When the team compared the ancient sequences to the DNA of modern chickens only one of the ancient chickens had the yellow skin so common in chickens today.
Similarly less than half of the ancient chickens had the version of the TSHR gene found worldwide in modern chickens.
The results suggest that these traits only became widespread within the last 500 years--thousands of years after the first barnyard chickens came to be.
and livestock we know today--dogs chickens horses cows--are probably radically different from the ones our great-great-grandparents knew he added. â#They are subjected to the whim of human fancy
Certainly the consumption of meat would be a social barrier. Traditionally as countries increase their personal income meat
or protein consumption goes up. Because livestock production is a contributor to greenhouse gases he said it had to be put on the table.
Respondents especially noted a change in the taste of chicken beef pork roast meat lamb or sausages while fish fast foods chocolate greasy foods pasta and rice were also high on the list.
Meat products topped the list with one in every three patients steering away from chicken minced beef beef steak sausages lamb ham or bacon.
and certain types of agriculture (e g. rice alfalfa) provide nearly all of the habitat used by millions of ducks geese shorebirds and other waterbirds every fall winter and spring.
#Pathogenic E coli binds to fresh vegetablesfood-poisoning outbreaks linked to disease-causing strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli are associated normally with tainted meat products.
if cadmium concentrations rise to unsafe levels in meat and dairy products human health and New zealand's agricultural economy could be jeopardized.
#Endemic in pork industry: Will new tests prevent it? Pork products cost about 10 percent more than they did last year according to the U s. Bureau of Labor Statistics
and economists expect the prices to continue rising because of diarrhea viruses currently devastating the pork industry.
That's why researchers at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Kansas State university have developed new tests they hope will mitigate the spread of these viruses.
and a bird that has claws on its wings and a stomach like a cow. The research published today in Current Biology the shows that Indonesia Australia
and 144 from private households) after preparation of various meats (i e. poultry beef/veal pork lamb game
The researchers found that none of the cutting boards used in preparing beef/veal pork lamb game
They also found that the meat's country of origin did not play a factor in the presence of bacteria on any of the surfaces.
and standardized approaches to meat preparation can prevent spread of diseases without the need to separate cattle from wildlife by fencing.
and US Forest Service in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecosphere last week but outlier project sites with good grouse habitat may yield clues to successful management scenarios.
FWS must decide on the grouse's protection status by the end of FY 2015.
if ESR treatments had improved conditions for grouse in these vast burned areas. The average ESR project encompasses 4 square miles.
Participants were shown randomly one of two versions of the box in one version the rabbit was looking straight at the viewer
and in the other the rabbit looked down. Findings show that brand trust was 16%higher
when the rabbit made eye contact. Furthermore participants indicated liking Trix better compared to another cereal
when the rabbit made eye contact. This finding shows that cereal box spokes-characters that make eye contact may increase positive feelings towards the product
#Meeting climate targets may require reducing meat, dairy consumptiongreenhouse gas emissions from food production may threaten the UN climate target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius according to research at Chalmers University of Technology Sweden.
Emissions from agriculture threaten to keep increasing as global meat and dairy consumption increases. If agricultural emissions are addressed not nitrous oxide from fields
We have shown that reducing meat and dairy consumption is key to bringing agricultural climate pollution down to safe levels says Fredrik Hedenus one of the study authors.
Diets high in meat milk cheese and other food associated with high emissions are expected to become more common.
or technology these growing numbers of people eating more meat and dairy entail increasing amounts of climate pollution from the food sector.
These emissions can be reduced with efficiency gains in meat and dairy production as well as with the aid of new technology says co-author Stefan Wirsenius.
if meat and dairy consumption continue to grow. Beef and lamb account for the largest agricultural emissions relative to the energy they provide.
By 2050 estimates indicate that beef and lamb will account for half of all agricultural greenhouse gas emissions while only contributing 3 percent of human calorie intake.
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Decker also said that cattle breeding is important for animal farmers looking to maximize their herds'meat and dairy production.
whether that is through breeding more disease-resistant animals or finding ways to increase dairy or beef production.
In their analysis researchers controlled for smoking exercise consumption of red meat sugar-sweetened beverages and other dietary and cardiovascular risk factors that correlate with atherosclerosis.
of lipid accumulation in the liver. Despite its great promise when researchers planted the original strain of resistant-starch rice in Okinawa the yield per hectare was about half that achieved in mainland Japan.
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but can contaminate beef unpasteurized milk soft cheeses made from raw milk and raw fruits and vegetables that haven't been washed properly The most recent outbreak of meat-traced E coli was in 2010 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That year 21 people in 16 states fell ill from the pathogen including one in Florida the agency reported.
and soft cheeses smoked fish raw meat and ready-to-eat products. In Austria health care providers are required to report all cases of listeriosis which can be fatal particularly for patients with weakened immune systems.
The first contamination event from June 2009 to January 2010 was attributed to one L. monocytogenes strain very effective at infecting epithelial cells of the intestine and liver cells.
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Drosophila suzukii also referred to as spotted-wing Drosophila because the male has large black blotches on his wings (as do males of several other closely related species) is able to penetrate the skins of ripening fruit
and lay eggs inside. It was a surprise for western researchers when D. suzukii was identified as a pest said Joel Atallah a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis who carried out the work with Artyom Kopp professor of evolution and ecology and undergraduate researchers Lisa Teixeira Raul
one kilo of beef for instance can be produced with much less input feed in the US than in Africa
#Study fingers chickens, quail in spread of H7n9 influenza virusamong the copious species of poultry in China quail and chickens are the likely sources of infection of H7n9 influenza virus
and his collaborators first infected seven species of poultry with a human isolate of the Chinese H7n9 virus. The virus replicated well in quail
and chickens and the former quickly infected their cage-mates says Suarez. The virus replicated less well in other poultry species
and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens reconstructing the early migrations of people and the animals they carried with them.
and traced a unique genetic marker of the original Polynesian chickens that is only present in the Pacific
We have identified genetic signatures of the original Polynesian chickens and used these to track early movements
Domestic animals such as chickens carried on these early voyages have left behind a genetic record that can solve some of these long standing mysteries.
and South american chickens suggesting early human contact and found that some of the results were contaminated with modern chicken DNA
which occurs at trace levels in many laboratory components says ACAD Director Professor Alan Cooper.
We were able to show that the ancient chicken DNA provided no evidence of any Pre-columbian contact between these areas.
The most threatened of the beach nestersâ#he maleoâ#s a chicken-sized bird with a black helmet (or casque) yellow facial skin a red-orange beak
In Oklahoma declining bobwhite quail numbers are especially alarming with one study relating that decline to the number of quail hunters
but no definitive explanation has been discovered for the quail decline. â#oeour study is important because prior to this we had no ability to use whole-genome technologies to monitor levels of genetic diversity over time define the genetic relationships among existing populations
and physiology. â#oenow we can peel back new layers of science to thoroughly look at many different levels of the quail problem including the utilization of whole-genome information for monitoring modern genetic diversity reconstructing historic population trends
#Concerns raised about using beta agonists in beef cattleuse of certain animal drugs known as beta agonists in cattle production has received considerable national attention.
Beta agonists improve the efficiency of beef production and this improvement provides important societal benefits Loneragan said.
This means the cattle converts more of the feed it eats into beef and it does this more efficiently.
and less water to produce the same amount of beef than if no beta agonists were used.
and therefore less fuel to produce the same amount of beef. The improvement in the efficiency of production has meaningful societal benefits.
Therefore this management practice widespread in Central europe comes into conflict with the conservation of ground-nesting birds such as grouse species
and chickens rather than primarily relying on growing crops for human food and animal fodder.
and chickens settlers were also foraging for a variety of marine food and consuming wild animals--especially fruit bats--and that whatever horticultural food they produced was relied not heavily on she says.
and greater access to protein from sources such as tortoises pigs and chicken than women did.
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