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CMT One Country, Tyson Foods Team Up with America's Second Harvest in Honor of New Season of "Country Fried Home Videos"

By admin - Posted on July 23rd, 2008

CMT and Tyson will Make a “Country Fried” Donation For Every Click on CMTONECOUNTRY.com

NASHVILLE, July 17, 2008 – CMT One Country and Tyson Foods, Inc. have teamed up to donate a heapin’ helping of fried chicken to America’s Second Harvest to celebrate an all-new season of the popular CMT series, COUNTRY FRIED HOME VIDEOS, it was announced today by Lucia Folk, director of public affairs, CMT and Ed Nicholson, director of community relations, Tyson Foods, Inc. Beginning in July, CMT One Country and Tyson will donate one pound of fried chicken to America’s Second Harvest for every person that visits CMTONECOUNTRY.com and clicks on the “donation box” over the course of the 12-week series. » read more »

Largest Poultry Producer Tyson Foods to Sell Chickens Raised Without Antibiotics

By admin - Posted on June 20th, 2007

Statement by Dr. Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists

WASHINGTON (June 19, 2007)—Tyson Foods, the nation's largest producer of chicken, announced today that it has begun to produce all of its fresh chicken free of antibiotics and is selling the chicken in grocery stores under a "Raised Without Antibiotics" label.

Below is a statement by Margaret Mellon, director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): » read more »