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FDA Bans "Extra-Label" Uses Of Popular Class Of Antibiotics On Farm Animals
By Chris Morran on January 4, 2012 2:27 PM
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For those of you who are concerned about the amount of antibiotics being given to the cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys that provide (or end up as) the food on your plate, here's some good news. The Food and Drug Administration has announced a new regulation that prohibits "extra-label" uses of a popular class of antibiotics. More »
Popeye's Introduces Scoop-Shaped Chicken Nuggets
By Ben Popken on October 3, 2011 4:00 PM
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Popeye's has created a new batch of fried chicken nuggets that feature a spoon-like curvature to them to make it easier to scoop up dipping sauce. This fast food innovation is dubbed "Dip'n Chick'n." More »
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My Rotisserie Chicken Has a Chemical Found In Brake Fluid
By Phil Villarreal on January 19, 2011 2:30 PM
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Daniel took a hard look at the label on a rotisserie chicken he picked up at the supermarket and was unnerved to find propylene glycol on the pictured label. More »
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Scientists Genetically Modify Chickens To Not Pass On Avian Flu
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 17, 2011 12:00 PM
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As bird flu threatens to morph into a virus that can be passed from human to human, British scientists have taken a step forward in preventing the spread of the deadly epidemic by producing genetically modified chickens which are unable to transmit the flu to other creatures. More »
What Mechanically Separated Chicken Looks Like
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2010 2:00 PM
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Mmm yummers, after the jump, here's a picture of some mechanically separated poultry. We didn't want to put it on the front page because it is so gross, so if you click through, that is your fault. More »
Popeyes Decides It's Time To Play Chicken With KFC
By Chris Morran on August 26, 2010 1:15 PM
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For years, Popeyes has been bragging about the quality of its fried chicken, but now that the fast food chain says they beat KFC in an independent national taste test, it's decided to take the battle right to the Colonel with a new marketing campaign that pits Louisiana against Kentucky. More »
Free Smoothies At Boston Market This Saturday
By Ben Popken on August 12, 2010 10:00 AM
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This Saturday Boston Market is giving away free smoothies at participating stores in a few states. More »
Here's The Video Of That Crazy McNugget Lady Who Attacked McDonald's Employees
By Chris Walters on August 10, 2010 10:30 AM
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Remember the McDonald's drive-thru customer who went all 28 Days after she was told they'd stopped serving Chicken McNuggets? Obviously a story like this is a hundred times more awesome if you can watch the actual attack, and fortunately for us the security footage of the event is now available. More »
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Customer Says Supermarket Sold Rotten Chicken With New Sell By Date
By Chris Walters on May 18, 2010 9:23 AM
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A woman in Brooklyn has accused a local grocery store of slapping a new "sell by" sticker over an expired one in order to unload some old poultry that was past its prime. More »
USDA Tightens Chicken Rules
By Chris Walters on May 11, 2010 1:54 PM
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Yesterday the USDA announced new poultry safety rules intended to slightly reduce the number of poisonings annually from salmonella and campylobacter. An agency official says that the new rules should prevent about 65,000 cases of food sickness a year, which is only a fraction of the over a million cases annually. However, most of the other food products that contribute to that number fall under FDA regulation, so the USDA can't say anything. "This is something we can do, so we're doing it," the spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. More »
Target Chicken Nuggets Win Taste Test
By Marc Perton on May 5, 2010 2:58 PM
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Consumer Reports subjected its team of trained taste-testers to more than a dozen varieties of chicken nuggets, including both supermarket brands and those from McDonald's. The winner among the frozen nuggets: Target's Market Pantry. Soy nuggets from Boca and Morningstar were judged to have "very little chicken flavor." More »
The KFC Double Down: What A Restaurant Does When It Gets Desperate
By Chris Walters on April 19, 2010 11:11 AM
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It seems like the best promotional campaigns for KFC in the past few years have been on South Park, and that's despite the fact that Cartman is the chain's most vocal supporter. An AdAge article today points out that Chick-Fil-A has been eating KFC's lunch for a while now, and so far every stunt KFC has pulled—name changes, PR-engineered recipe events, botched giveaways, getting Oprah's blessing—hasn't stopped the restaurant from losing customers.That's right: your lack of interest in KFC is what created this bundle of cheesy fried-fried in the first place. More »
Chicken Wing Prices Soar While Breasts Sag
By Chris Morran on March 24, 2010 4:44 PM
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While many bars and restaurants continue to offer cheap chicken wings as an enticement to get diners and drinkers in the door, the demand for the little bits of bird has increased so much in the last decade that wholesale costs for wings have more than doubled. More »
Science Renders Chickens Obsolete With Special Soy
By Phil Villarreal on February 22, 2010 9:00 AM
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University of Missouri scientists have invented a soy substitute with chicken, which supposedly matches chicken's texture, moisture content, appearance and taste, Jeannine Stein blogs for the Los Angeles Times. More »
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Tyson Chicken Settles Class-Action Suit, Will Pay $4.4 Million To Consumers
By Chris Walters on January 14, 2010 2:51 PM
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If you bought Tyson chicken from 2007 to 2009, you may want to start keeping tabs on the new settlement being considered by Tyson to settle the class-action suit against it. The agreement was filed earlier this week, and a review is scheduled for tomorrow. If approved, approximately $4.4 million will supposedly be available to disburse to consumers. More »
Kraft HQ Lobby Sports Droopy Boob Joke
By Ben Popken on December 18, 2009 9:36 AM
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Female Kraft employees are "furious" and the men "embarrassed" by this ad inside their headquarters lobby, reports the ANIMAL blog. It has a mirrored surface and below that it says, "You look smashing, but your chicken breasts could use a lift," followed by an image of Shake N' Bake. Hidden behind that faceless oblong red white and blue logo, Kraft has got some cheeky pranksters! [ANIMAL]
Boston Market Posts $1 Meal Coupon Online: Guess What Happens Next
By Laura Northrup on October 31, 2009 1:00 PM
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—>The trickster twins of free food and Internet coupons struck again this week. Well, nearly free food. Boston Market restaurants are experiencing chicken shortages after their coupon offering customers on their mailing list a full chicken meal for $1. The coupon went viral on deal sites, and we even included it in our Morning Deals on Tuesday. And as more people than planned took advantage of the deal, lines ran long and supplies ran low. More »
KFC Handing Out More Free Chicken Next Monday
By Chris Walters on October 22, 2009 6:26 PM
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—>Looks like KFC found some more piles of grilled chicken in a closet somewhere, because next week they'll hold their third grilled chicken giveaway this year. Their CEO promises that this time the event will be glitch free: all who desire a sample of grilled chicken will receive a sample of grilled chicken. More »
China Wants Us For Our "Jumbo, Juicy" Chicken Feet
By Meg Marco on September 18, 2009 4:49 PM
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—>The waters of international trade with the Chinese are perilous and murky to say the least. Sometimes it seems that all we do is buy, buy, buy. Not so. We do have something that the Chinese want. Chicken feet. Apparently, our chicken feet are awesome. More »
Video Shows Chicks Getting Ground Up Alive
By consumerist.com on September 8, 2009 8:20 PM
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—>Who can resist the lure of watching adorable chicks peeping all the way to the chick grinder? Not me. And now, having seen the illicit video, I can with certainty report that God is dead and humanity is a cancer. More »
