The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.

Have you ever thought that you know all you can possibly know about the many kinds of laundry detergents that grace our supermarket shelves today? Or do you hunt and peck like a chicken when it comes to finding just the right one to use? Here are a few facts about laundry soaps and detergents that may prove helpful.

AFP [hold your nose] seems always very good at the environment subjects, even they do better at it than they do on fact-checking and journalism.So what if 5 whales became a food or a research subject? Are they any different from chickens, cows, pigs and other fishes? I sense a discrimination between animals, while ...

LAST Friday, in front of 4 million television viewers and a studio audience, the chef Jamie Oliver killed a chicken. Having recently obtained a United Kingdom slaughterman’s license, Mr. Oliver staged a “gala dinner,” in fact a kind of avian snuff film, to awaken British consumers to the high costs of cheap chicken.

Whether you describe it with the sophistication of “karma” or the down-home quality of “chickens coming home to roost,” it’s a fact that Irony has finally decided to turn his attention to the Clintons. And let’s be clear: Only The Ancient One could have created Barack Obama as the perfect headache for Hillary and Bill.

Westerners are usually amazed or dismayed at the food they found on the table for them to eat, whether it be 1000-year eggs or pickled duck feet to chicken with peanuts. Not surprisingly, the Chinese don't have any foods they consider to be not eaten.