And they served it anyway. Even when a fire in the oven or an accident with cleaning fluid intervened. After all, they figured, Thanksgiving dinner must go on. One year while hosting 20 guests at his Ramsey home, Frank Gunsberg noticed that two things had disappeared: the roasted turkey and his golden retriever, Teddy.

Pigs in southwest China from Friday began having two identity chips fixed on their back legs detailing where they were butchered, examined and sold. Forty-five markets in downtown Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, have started to sell pork with ID chips, said a spokesman with the city's food and drug administration on Friday.

Gary Steiner, a professor of philosophy at Bucknell University and the author of “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status and Kinship,” writes in this op-ed that more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated?

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Over 20 people had suffered food poisoning after attending a celebration diner at a restaurant in Bulgaria’s southern city of Pazardzhik.

AMES, Iowa -– This year’s relatively cool, wet growing season and rainy fall have delayed grain harvesting and has increased the risk for mold development on grain. When mold develops it can increase the formation of mycotoxins which can be toxic to humans and animals.

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PORTLAND, Maine -- An Augusta woman who says she contracted an E. Coli infection after eating meat produced by New York-based Fairbank Farms has filed a lawsuit against the company. Last month, Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y., recalled almost 546,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that had been distributed in September to stores from North Carolina to Maine.

The Canadian Swine Health Board plans to launch a national biosecurity benchmarking study in January. The Canadian Swine Health Board was formed in early 2009 to coordinate and oversee research initiatives aimed at reducing the risk of new and emerging animal diseases as well as existing disease.