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The NIAAA has long recognized that alcohol increases breast cancer risk, and literature on the Distilled Spirits Council’s website acknowledged this, too, although it appears to have been taken down. But in 2015, Zakhari published a scientific journal article asserting that “there is no solid evidence associating moderate alcohol consumption with an increased incidence of breast cancer.” He advised women worried about cancer to consult a doctor because “moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with potential health benefits, including decreased risk of coronary artery disease and overall mortality, protection against congestive heart failure, decreased risk of ischemic stroke, and protection against type 2 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.” An industry group recently cited the paper to try to fend off restrictive government recommendations about alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom.

“They were sold to Australia and New Zealand recently, and they get quite a few European inquiries – even one from Norway,” said Mr McGregor. “We receive a royalty from Con-Tented Products as the original concept came from us.

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Mr Palmer said: “We power washed the tanks out and fitted full dump valves to the bottom of them so they could be completely emptied. Taking tanks down to clean is difficult on a lot of farms because of the accessibility. They’re often high up and there are health and safety implications. But it is hopefully only a once-a-year job to bring down the tanks, pressure wash them and then put a lid on them. Future annual cleans should then be much easier.

As for Justify, if he were to keep racing, the cost to insure him would require a huge amount of money, and might swallow up a lot of the purses if he kept racing, and winning, for the remainder of 2018.

We put in six stalls for sows to farrow in. We built a mechanical scraper under the floor which was moved with a hand crank and pintle chains that ran continuously over pens and under the floor. We were visited by the county farm adviser and professors from University of Illinois and Iowa State University.

Most large-scale free-range pig production takes place in the south of Western Australia, which has ideal soil, water and climate conditions. Free-range pig farming is challenging in many parts of Australia, because of the hot climate.

“We currently have to turn restaurants down because we can’t meet all the demand. I don’t want to overcommit and not be able to meet supply in the end. I believe consistency is key,” Patson says.

Those opposed cite reasons including the conditions of the chickens, the use of manure lorries and the loss of greenfield land.

The youngest of the hospital’s vets, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, was making his rounds in jeans and a surgical mask. The oldest vet here has worked the night shift for more than a quarter century, spending tens of thousands of hours removing tumors from birds, easing their pain with medication, administering antibiotics. Singh is a rookie by comparison, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he inspects a pigeon, flipping it over in his hands, quickly but gently, the way you might handle your cellphone. As we talked, he motioned to an assistant, who handed him a nylon bandage that he stretched twice around the pigeon’s wing, setting it with an unsentimental pop.

Even so, the US wine industry lobbied to include a positive health message about alcohol in the 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by the Department of Agriculture. The new guidelines removed language indicating that alcohol had “no net health benefit” and stated that for some people, moderate alcohol consumption might reduce the risk of heart disease.

And scientists are split over the significance of certain behaviors seen in crated pigs: chewing compulsively on the metal bars or wagging the head incessantly. These gestures make them look miserable, but studies have found the chewing also can occur in group pens.