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Free range chickens

CAST report finds no advantages to free-range poultry, cage-free eggs

Free-range poultry and cage-free eggs may command higher prices in the supermarket but they offer consumers little or no demonstrable benefit in food safety or quality, animal health and welfare or healthful food, a panel of scientists concluded after a review of a battery of research papers they called "inconclusive and often contradictory."
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CAST seeks suggestions for ag studies

Have an agricultural subject that you think needs investigation? The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology is inviting suggestions for possible in-depth studies by a task force of agricultural scientists.
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