The current review of standards for egg and poultry farming does little to assuage fears that the industry wields too much influence. Only an independent regulator can restore public confidence.
Is this how we got the sperm and the egg?
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Even a fraction of a penny per egg over hundreds of thousands of eggs can mean being able to survive as a business, so the temptation to cut corners is huge.
Free-range egg producers trade heavily on their implied ethical and nutritional value. But what are you really getting?
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After Snowdale Holdings was penalised A$1 million for lying about their eggs being free-range, here are some tips on getting what you pay for in the supermarket.
Many people believe free-range eggs are tastier and more ‘natural’.
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Many shoppers choose free-range eggs because they think they are tastier and healthier, rather than being motivated purely by concerns for hens’ welfare, a new study has found.
Well hello, Dolly.
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In 1997, scientists announced they’d created a healthy sheep cloned from another ewe’s mammary gland cell. Two decades on, the technique is being refined and applied to new challenges.
Preconception planning focuses on improving the health of parents to lower the risk of obesity in children.
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Victorian attitudes influenced what scientists thought they were observing about sexual behaviors in the animal world. But modern techniques reveal the myth for what it is.
Yolanda Güse protesting outside a McDonald’s branch in Cape Town.
It doesn’t happen often that a multinational will blink when taken on by an individual. But a passionate campaigner’s successful crusade has shown how it can be done.
Voters in Massachusetts passed a ballot measure that assumed so. But a philosopher of animal welfare suggests the ethical issues involved are trickier than a yes/no vote would suggest.
The egg collected in the Central Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, in October 1983.
For more than three decades an egg found in a remote Australian desert was thought to be from a rare nocturnal parrot. So what happened when scientists decided to double-check?
There’s a battle for resources going on in there.
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Most women will have been made aware they have a ticking biological clock. But most probably don’t know it’s because women are born with a limited supply of eggs, and eventually they will run out.
Eggs cartons will need to show stocking density on the carton.
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The National Health and Medical Research Council call for public submissions on whether sex selection should be allowed without a medical reason recognises changing social attitudes.