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A noxious weed, harmful weed or injurious weed is a weed that has been designated by an agricultural or other governing authority as a plant that is harmful to agricultural or horticultural crops, natural habitats or ecosystems, or humans or livestock. Most noxious weeds have been introduced into an ecosystem by ignorance, mismanagement, or ...
A 2010 report stated that the advent of glyphosate-resistant weeds could cause GM crops to lose their effectiveness unless farmers combined glyphosate with other weed-management strategies. [322] [323] One way to avoid environmental contamination is genetic use restriction technology (GURT), also called "Terminator". [324]
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.
The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause.
In one case last year, 5 million chickens were slaughtered on a single Iowa egg farm. Nebraska comes next with more than 6.7 million birds killed, followed by Colorado's 6.26 million and Minnesota ...
Even after 940,000 chickens on the Minnesota farm are slaughtered, there will only have been about 3.4 million birds killed this year. Minnesota has now lost a total of more than 5.5 million birds ...
High doses cause acute respiratory syndrome , with death approximately 12 to 48 hours after consumption. [7] Caged birds seem to be more sensitive to the effects of persin, whereas, for example, turkeys and chickens seem more resistant. [7] Lactating rabbits and mice: non-infectious mastitis and agalactia after consumption of leaves or bark.
An animal charity has said it is considering taking further legal action against large scale producers of fast-growing chickens dubbed "Frankenchickens". On Friday, The Humane League UK (THLUK ...