Animals and the Next Great Social Justice Movement
AUSTRALIA - Increasing concern for animal welfare and consumer demand for organic and free range products— backed up with stricter food labelling requirements—is, according to this story, likely to trigger the next great social justice movement in Australia,...

Organic or Factory: All Just Tastes Like Chicken
AUSTRALIA - A new taste test conducted by CHOICE, an advice organisation, has found that foodies can’t tell the diffrence between free range, organic and factory chooks.

Egg Corp Dismisses Call to End to Battery Hen Farming
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Egg Corporation has rejected calls for battery hen farming to be banned.

Cafe Turns to Government over Salmonella Claim
AUSTRALIA - The proprietor of a cafe in Tasmania has called on the State Government for some formal recognition of the impact on her business from a recent salmonella outbreak.

Greens Still Searching for Cracks in Egg Business
AUSTRALIA - The Tasmanian Greens continue to vindicate an Australian farm that has been found guilty in a salmonella inquest. The Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL) say that their actions hold little regard for the consequences of risk to public...

Victoria Hosts Sustainable Development Conference 2008
AUSTRALIA - The current and future directions and frameworks for sustainability will be the focus of Victoria's Sustainable Development Conference 2008

Warning: Eggs May Contain Deadly Bacteria
AUSTALIA - EGG cartons from Pitt's Poultry will be labelled in a bid to curb salmonella outbreaks.

Bad Batch: Salmonella Eggs And Welfare
AUSTRALIA - The Tasmanian Greens, who claim to be the world's first Green party, today released a report commissioned by Deputy Leader and Consumer Affairs spokesperson Nick McKim MP, and authored by veterinary pathologist Dr David Obendorf, which...

Poultry Farm Blamed for Salmonella
AUSTRALIA - Health authorities have confirmed Pitts Poultry is to blame for a recent salmonella outbreak

Eggs Unblemished After Salmonella Scare
AUSTRALIA - The egg farm that had been implicated in the recent salmonella outbreak in Tasmania has been vindicated this week as an inquiry into the product supplied revealed that no contamination was found on any of the eggs tested.

Growing Push for Egg-Farm Closure
AUSTRALIA - A veterinary pathologist says closure of an egg farm linked to salmonella is the safest option, while another vet says public health must take priority over business.

Farm at Centre of Salmonella Inquiry Named
AUSTRALIA - The poultry farm at the centre of a recent salmonella investigation in Tasmania has been named as Pitt Poultry.

Southern Hemisphere Spins into the Future
AUSTRALIA - Baiada Poultry, Australia, and HatchTech Incubation Technology signed a contract for the most modern large-scale hatchery of the Southern Hemisphere.

Real Reason Revealed for Necrotic Eneritis
AUSTRALIA - Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO Livestock Industries have demonstrated for the first time that alpha-toxin protein, long thought to be required for necrotic enteritis to develop, is not the main cause of the chicken disease.

Continents Join to Wipe Flu Off the Planet
AUSTRALIA - A team of researchers from The Australian National University will lead a new joint research centre with China conducting leading-edge research into treatments for Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).