Ontario’s Vidal wine has a poor reputation after years as a mainly cheap, sweet dessert wine. Two brothers who have improved the wine, starting by reducing the yield in the vineyard, now have what sounds like a really nice crisp and fruity dry white wine. It sells out at the shop, but in restaurants and […]
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Canada invents the chicken chair for healthier birds
The just-announced academic Chair of Poultry Welfare, at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, is the country’s first such chair, reports The Globe & Mail, saying that consumer concern over healthy poultry is behind the new research post. Canada’s poultry farmers are sponsoring the seven-year post, at a cost of C$100,000 a year. The […]