WATT PoultryUSA - July 2011

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textRead All Things Poultry, editor Gary Thornton’s blog

Elevating food safety communication
discussed at Poultry Leadership
Roundtable

Don’t take for granted the role of consumers in insuring the food safety of poultry! That was a clear take-away message of a panel of nine of the U.S. poultry industry’s most influential leaders at the Poultry Leadership Roundtable. Read more at

www.WATTAgNet.com/GaryThornton.html

WATTAgNet Exclusives

1❯ Demand increasing for chicken leg quarters in US

Growing domestic demand for chicken leg quarters and lessening
importance of Russian exports is positive news for the US poultry
industry, says consultant Paul Aho.
Watch video at www.WATTAgNet.com/24032.html

2❯ Ethical audits in the poultry industry

A report by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission highlighted questionable recruitment practices and worrying treatment of temporary and agency workers in the country’s meat and poultry processing sector. As a response, many supermarkets are now insisting that their suppliers conduct ethical audits to ensure that workers are being treated fairly throughout the supply chain.

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WATT offers newsletters for poultry growers, producers and integrators every day of the week. Poultry eNews is sent Monday and Thursday, and Poultry Update is sent Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

4❯ The relationship between corn prices and
ethanol policy

Facing the highest corn prices on record and potentially their worst year in
pro;tability, poultry producers are wondering why the US Department of Agriculture
won’t acknowledge the relationship between corn prices and ethanol policy.
Watch video at www.WATTAgNet.com/24031.html

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