-
ScienceHealthCDC Warns Americans to Stop Kissing Birds, You Salmonella Freaks
Looks like it’s once again time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to play the role of buzzkill. In the midst of a new outbreak of Salmonella bacteria linked to pet birds, the CDC is warning feather lovers: Please don’t smooch or snuggle your backyard chickens, ducks, or other assorted poultry. Birds and … Continued
By Ed Cara -
EartherPSA: Boiling Chicken in Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Is a Crime
Three men have been banned from Yellowstone National Park for boiling chicken in the park’s hot springs. That’s because it’s against the law to approach the springs, but really boiling is not a good way to prepare chicken at all and should be considered a crime on its own. In August, three middle-aged dudes brought … Continued
By Dharna Noor -
Tech NewsTyson Launches Its First Plant-Based Protein Brand to Compete With Beyond Meat
Tyson Foods is launching the company’s first plant-based protein brand, called Raised & Rooted, that will feature vegetarian nuggets that taste like chicken and blended burgers that still contain beef but are arguably more healthy. Tyson’s new brand will compete with Beyond Meat, one of the first companies along with Impossible Foods to make a … Continued
By Matt Novak -
ScienceHealth69,000 Pounds of Tyson Chicken Strips Recalled Over Concerns They May Contain Pieces of Metal
Tyson Foods has recalled nearly 70,000 pounds of frozen chicken strips shipped to more than 20 states over fears that they could be tainted with fragments of metal, according to federal officials. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Thursday that the recall of Tyson ready-made strips was issued after it … Continued
By Catie Keck -
ScienceHealth
CDC Ends Investigation Into Chicken Salmonella Outbreak That Sickened 129, But More Could Fall Ill
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that it ended its investigation into an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to various raw chicken products. It was unable to identify a common source during the outbreak that sickened dozens since it started in January last year, the agency said. The multidrug-resistant outbreak strain, Salmonella … Continued
By Catie Keck -
Tech News
American Company Recalls a Million Pounds of Cafeteria Chicken
A company producing ready-to-eat chicken is recalling 933,272 pounds of its ostensibly schoolhouse cafeteria-bound product. That’s equal to 26.5 million McNuggets, based on prior Gizmodo calculations. That is so much chicken. Oklahoma City-based OK Foods, inc.* is recalling chicken produced from Dec 19, 2016 through Mar 7, 2017. This comes after five complaints brought a United … Continued
-
Tech NewsHow Many Chicken McNuggets Are in the Big Chicken?
By now, you’ve definitely seen or at least heard of The Big Chicken. He is large. He contains multitudes. And he is most certainly real. While I’m not a chicken expert myself, judging by his phenotypes (i.e. extremely large and incredibly fluffy), he’s likely a Brahma chicken—a massive bird originally from India, traditionally kept as … Continued
By Rae Paoletta -
Tech NewsSploidPity the Chicken That Laid This Egg Inside an Egg
This isn’t a miraculous occurrence or a trick. But it is very rare. The technical term for the process of a chicken incubating an egg inside another egg is called a counter-peristalsis contraction. Basically, an egg that wasn’t quite ready went back up inside the hen’s reproductive assembly line and another egg formed around it. … Continued
By Rhett Jones -
ScienceHealthKFC Is Giving Away Sunscreen That Makes You Smell Like Fried Chicken
The summer is drawing to a close, but there’s still time to catch some rays, get a glowing tan, and smell like extra crispy fried chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken—or KFC as it likes to be called now—is giving away tubes of sunscreen that make you smell like you’ve slathered yourself in the Colonel’s secret 11 … Continued
-
Tech NewsSploid
Charlie’s Back At It Again With His Blue Pants!!
I don’t know, man. Don’t ask me why the chicken is wearing blue pants. Don’t ask me where the chicken even got his blue pants. Just enjoy the silly inanity of a chicken running around the yard like a total goofball while wearing blue pants. I don’t know if the chicken likes wearing his blue … Continued
By Casey Chan -
Tech NewsSploid
Shake Shack’s first ever fried chicken sandwich looks like perfection
Shake Shack, perhaps the best burger chain in the world and if you disagree you probably need to see if you can get a new tongue, just announced their first ever chicken sandwich, a fried chicken sandwich that looks like the Platonic ideal of what a fried chicken sandwich should look like (if you like … Continued
By Casey Chan -
ScienceHealth
The Science of Why Chicken Goes Bad So Quickly
Food-borne bacteria are the primary cause of spoilage and food poisonings. Thriving in moist, low-acid environments where lots of protein is present, pathogens like Salmonella, Campylobacter and E. coli live with the bird during its life and stay with its meat after slaughter; likewise, other bacteria, such a Acinetobacter and Pseudomonads fluroescens, putida or fragi, … Continued
Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com
