She read a chunk of the Senates healthcare reform bill, a document called oewhats in A can of Red Bull?(
but last November he finally closed the Turkey General store, leaving the small Texas Panhandle town without a grocery.
and deadlines by guzzling so-called energy drinks like Jolt, Red Bull and Rockstar. But, as it turns out,
A drink called Blue Cow says it can improve concentration, relieve anxiety and irritability from fatigue,
Blue Cow, for instance, does not. Some brands have a lot of sugar; others have none. Yet even an ingredient as seemingly benign as rose hips,
like meat, eggs or dairy, are fed from livestock GM. But despite the creation of a GM mouse as early as the 1980s, the idea of eating modified animals does not appeal to the public.
Another project at the University of Guelph in Canada is developing a pig bred to digest food more effectively.
From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap,
From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap,
The first time Albert the sheep met Themba the elephant at the Shamwari Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in South africa,
chased his new friend Albert until the sheep took refuge in a shelter for 12 hours.
Gladys was a two-day-old chick when she became the only hen to survive a fox attack on her farm in Suffolk, England,
The owners saw the cat washing the chick and keeping her clean and when it was time to let her back outside,
Pigs and tigers seem like theyd be natural enemies, but in captivity thats not always the case:
These photos from the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand show a tiger nursing a litter of piglets
(and this tiger herself was raised by a pig). But while the process isnt unheard of, this set of images brings up bigger issues:
When Kathryn Thomas wanted to turn her sheep into lamb chops, the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry
and the sheep are led inside, where the butcher and federal meat inspector are waiting. When the job is done,
Today, four corporations slaughter 80 percent of the cattle in the United states. In Wyoming, for example,
where cattle ranching is so iconic that license plates carry an image of a cowboy, there is no longer a single slaughterhouse inspected by either the federal or state government.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington
said Dick Stoner, who raises black angus cattle on a farm in Sharpsburg, Md.,near the Antietam Civil war battlefield.
Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West. He has been consumed with the idea of a slaughtermobile
When Kathryn Thomas wanted to turn her sheep into lamb chops, the federal government required her to haul them across Puget sound on a ferry
and the sheep are led inside, where the butcher and federal meat inspector are waiting. When the job is done,
Today, four corporations slaughter 80 percent of the cattle in the United states. In Wyoming, for example
where cattle ranching is so iconic that license plates carry an image of a cowboy, there is no longer a single slaughterhouse inspected by either the federal or state government.
Instead, ranchers ship cattle across state lines to megaprocessors, where cows are fattened usually on grain and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3,
and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington
said Dick Stoner, who raises black angus cattle on a farm in Sharpsburg, Md.,near the Antietam Civil war battlefield.
Like neighboring farmers, Stoner sells some cattle to bulk slaughterhouses in the West. He has been consumed with the idea of a slaughtermobile
In the future, the square fruit in the grocery store will be found next to the square vegetables and the square poultry sections...
500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preservedhanks to a surfeit of sheep dunguring a recent dig in an Armenian cave.
Bad temper donkey did not want to work with the bull, such uncoordinated working force. This is the first time I saw such kind of farming method
#Scientists Incorporate Spiders Silk-Spinning Genes Into Goats Goats that produce spider silk protein in their milk could enable researchers to collect large quantities of the silk.
Researchers from the University of Wyoming have developed a way to incorporate spiders silk-spinning genes into goats,
and other researchers decided to put the spiders dragline silk gene into goats in such a way that the goats would only make the protein in their milk.
Like any other genetic factor, only a certain percentage of the goats end up with the gene.
of seven goat kids born in February 2010, three have tested positive for having the silk protein gene.
When these transgenic goats have kids and start lactating, the researchers will collect the milk
the goats do not seem to have any other differences in health, appearance, or behavior compared to goats without the gene,
the researchers said. In the future, the scientists plan to incorporate the silk genes into alfalfa plants,
#Cow Manure from Dairy farms Could Help Power Internet Giants Cow manure from dairy farms could help power Google
Guess what the cow has done this time? Americas dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business,
with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.
and dairy farmers efforts to deal with cattle waste by turning it into fuel. With the right skills, a dairy farmer could rent out land
10,000 cows could fuel a 1mw data center, the equivalent of a computing center used by a bank.
#Insurance Coverage Has Become an Economic Catalyst for Rural India A farmer in rural India shows off the insurance tag on his cow Big Rose.
his prized milking cow, was hit by a car or crushed in a cyclone. But thanks to a $14-a-month insurance policy, it would no longer be a financial disaster.
Debarasus new cow-insurance coverage represents a significant step forward in Indias hopes to lift hundreds of millions of people into prosperity.
Insurance for cattle, chickens, tractors, trucks and lives is suddenly appearing in Indias vast rural areas
Three months ago he insured four cows; one month ago he insured his brand-new tractor;
insurance has been an economic catalyst that has allowed farmers such as Debarasu to invest more boldly in new livestock or equipment,
said the Mumbai-based company insured 40,000 cattle last year alone. It is now canvassing three more states.
Rao said. oewe are insuring tractors, water pumps, even poultry. Its a great sign of how healthy the economy is becoming in many villages.
Deers, Black bucks, Peacocks, Blue bulls, Chinkaras, are some of the animals that you would find roaming around their settlements.
If not for the Bishnois, the Black buck and Chinkara, which come under Section 9 of the Wildlife Protection Act,
#Wild Turkeys Making A large Comeback in the Urban Communities Wild turkeys crossing the street in Newark, N. J. In the dark of night,
It was a 25-pound wild turkey. oethe police came outside and were laughing hysterically, says High society Cheesecake co-owner Marcus Morris,
April 1. oethe turkey had gone crazy. I started calling friends to tell them what had happened. Everyone thought it was an April fools joke.
The wild turkey is back in vast numbers and may be coming soon to a garage, backyard or windshield near you.
The High society Cheesecake caper is one of many real-life turkey dramas playing out this spring in
and male gobblers have begun a relentless two-month quest to have sex with as many females as possible.
which often provide a wonderful habitat for turkeys on the prowl. Wild turkeys are following in the footsteps of deer an iconic American species that was nearly wiped out,
only to come back in large numbers and thrive in predator-free suburbs. The bountiful turkey population is creating awkward interactions with people who have little experience with wildlife.
In Wenham, Mass. a man returned from Easter service and found a wild turkey had smashed his living rooms picture window. oethe turkey was patiently sitting on the couch like he was watching TV,
says Wenham Police officer William Foley. oebut he got angry when he saw us. The owner was afraid to come to the front door
He didnt want to cross paths with the turkey. Animal control officers wrestled the turkey outside,
and the bird was returned to the woods unharmed. Turkey-human confrontations are sometimes comical. New jersey Turnpike drivers were befuddled by wild turkeys hanging out at tollbooths.
In Oshkosh Wis.,, police used a lampshade to shoo a turkey from a garage. In Oxford, Mass.
a turkey crossed the road to eat at Mcdonalds. Back from the brink Wild turkeys were driven to near-extinction a century ago by hunting and habitat loss.
By 1900, only 30,000 wild turkeys survived, mostly in swamps and mountains, says wildlife biologist Scott Vance of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
Wild turkeys were wiped out in 17 of 36 states. Attempts to transplant farm-raised turkeys the Thanksgiving dinner kind into the wild failed.
The birds couldnt hack it. The invention of a netting gun that captured wild turkeys alive changed everything.
In the 1970s wildlife officials began relocating wild turkeys. The birds thrived in reforested areas.
Today, 7 million wild turkeys live in 49 states. Alaska is the only turkey-free state. Hunters kill about 1 million turkeys a year.
Turkey hunting is the only type of hunting growing in popularity, Vance says. One reason:
hunters have an excellent chance of success because there are so many birds. Feeding wild turkeys is the biggest cause of turkey trouble,
he says. So many wild turkeys were roaming the Minneapolis suburb of Shoreview that some parents were afraid for their childrens safety.
One resident fed buckets of corns to the birds. oewe had complaints about property damage,
traffic safety issues, says Assistant City manager Tom Simonson. The City council hired a company to kill 75 of the citys estimated 100 wild turkeys.
Only five were caught three went to the local food pantry; two got tracking devices. Vance says humans have little to fear from wild turkeys.
The birds have spurs on their feet, wings sharpened like razors from dragging on the ground and a willingness to fight.
But the typical turkey is 20 to 25 pounds. oeyoure more likely to be injured running away from the bird,
Vance says. Mostly, male birds interact with humans. Mating season lasts from February through May,
depending on an areas climate. When mating season ends, male turkeys regroup in bachelor packs, hanging with their posse until the next mating season.
They dont help around the nest or nurture their young. A smaller hazard The small size of wild turkeys makes them less of a road hazard than 200-pound deer.
However last month, two people were killed near Omaha when their van swerved to avoid one.
Vance says those are the only deaths he knows related to wild turkeys. Truck driver J. C. Caldwell narrowly escaped.
He was driving at 55 mph on a rural road in Washington County, Tenn. March 23 when a large turkey struck his windshield. oehis face was up against the windshield, his eyes looking straight at me,
Caldwell says. Caldwell has confronted nearly every hazard possible during 29 years on the road, once hitting two deer on the same trip.
This was his first turkey. When he tells other truckers, oethey think Im on drugs, that Im blowing smoke.
Even Sheriffs Deputy Eric Stanton, who handled the case, was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat,
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#Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps Animal Traps in the desert? British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins.
The walls form large funnels to direct gazelle and other large game animals into killing pits Whats more, the kites are between 2, 300 and 2,
200 years ago and are just the right size to have worked on local gazelles and other hooved game.
Modern wildlife managers in the same region have used a similar approach by laying pipes on the ground to direct gazelles into a corral, Avner reports.
Before the 20th century the region was home to several different species of gazelle wild asses, hartebeests, oryxes, ibexes, dorcas and onagers.
Some kites cleverly exploited low spots in the landscape to lure animals into the unseen killing pit. oeindeed,
Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
and goats, and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Its beyond comprehension, said Mary Louise Starosciak,
#British Farmers Breed Self-Shearing Sheep A New Way To Get Wool The new breed,
Now, instead of spending precious time and money shearing their sheep, they now simply wait for the light coats to moult in the fields.
and more sparse than a traditional British sheep, begins shedding around the animals neck and legs,
which is shorter and more sparse than a traditional British sheep, begins shedding around the animals neck and legs,
Where a normal sheep would produce up to 20lbs (9kg) of wool, the Exlana whose newly coined name from the Latin means used to have wool yields just 1lbs (500g).
The cross breed sheep the first of their kind in the UK were created using imported semen
and rams from diverse and exotic breeds such as the Barbados Blackbelly and St croix. The new ewes are estimated to save farmers eight pounds per animal per year in labour costs
. when the Vikings raised livestock in Greenland and grape vines were cultivated in Scotland, it was in fact warmer than it is today.
#China Creates Worlds First Genetically Modified Cow Yay! Now the world has beefy abominations. Chinese scientists have created the worlds first genetically modified cow that can give milk rich in Omega-3 fatty acid,
Xinhua reported. oetwo embryo-cloned and genetically-modified dairy cows were born June 23 last year. One of the cows has been found to have Omega-3 fatty acid level 10 times higher than a normal cow,
said Li Guangpeng, head of the Biological Technology Laboratory at Inner Mongolia University. oewe did not announce the birth of the cows until now
because it has taken time to check the cows effective genetic traces, Li said He said it takes 14-15 months for a cow to become sexually mature,
and another nine months to produce milk. The cows have been fed with normal cow feed. Dubbed a oegood fat,
Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid necessary for human health. But it cannot be made by the human body.
It is abundant in walnuts and cold water fish like herring, mackerel and sturgeon. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati c
#FDA Pressured to Take on Food Fraud Of the hundreds of customers who bought 10 million pounds of mislabeled Vietnamese catfish including national chains
working with scientists at the Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural history last year, discovered after analyzing DNA in 11 of 66 foods including the sheeps milk cheese
And raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle, contribute the third most. On the other end of the spectrum, the industrial sector releases such a high proportion of sulfates
#Spherical Cows Help to Dump Metabolism Law According to a new mathematical analysis, the mysterious oe3/4 law of metabolism proposed by Max Kleiber in 1932 and later described as oeextended to all
assume a spherical cow. oethats what a physicist would do, Dodds says, laughing. Basic geometry shows that the surface area of this difficult-to-milk creature would increase as the square of its radius
with the lowest necessary energy use, both geometry and common sense suggest that the cow would have a lower rate of metabolism per cell than the mouse:
the mouse, with more surface area relative to its volume, would lose heat faster than our cartoon cow.
the body weight of 13 mammals, ranging from rats to cows, against their resting metabolism. Strangely, the line traced through the data points did not conform to Rubners observation nor common sense.
#Pig Lungs Could Be transplanted Into Humans In 5 Years Pig lungs could soon be transplanted into humans Following a medical breakthrough,
pig lungs could be transplanted into humans to overcome a shortage of donor organs, a media report said Thursday citing Australian scientists.
Scientists have paved the way for animal-human transplanted in as little as five years, after keeping pig lungs alive and functioning with human blood.
The breakthrough came after scientists at Melbournes St vincents Hospital were able to remove a section of pig DNA called the Gal gene,
which made the pig organs incompatible with human blood. Professor Tony DAPICE who has been breeding pigs for possible transplants
since 1989, said human DNA was added to the engineered animals to control blood clotting and rejection in humans.
Glenn Westall, from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, said the world-first discovery meant pig-human lung transplants were a real prospect.
Previous attempts to combine unmodified pig lungs and human blood ended abruptly two years ago
He said the creation of genetically modified pigs was not ethically acceptable explaining: oeit is basically a human-pig, a hybrid,
or whatever you want to call it. oeit is about whether the community is prepared to accept a part human, part animal.
Maybe thats why stimulants, from geisha tea to Red Bull, have long been held in high esteem as aphrodisiacs.
Article continues below 6. Pig in a Blanket Sometimes edible aphrodisiacs are meant never to be consumed,
#Pork Grown in a Petri dish Call it pork in a petri dish a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock,
and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006,
they say the technology promises to have widespread implications for our food supply. oeif we took the stem cells from one pig
we would need one million fewer pigs to get the same amount of meat, said Mark Post,
Post and colleagues isolate stem cells from pigs muscle cells. They then put those cells into a nutrient-based soup that helps cells replicate to the desired number.
Limiting phytate production in the soybean could reduce a major environmental runoff contaminant from swine and poultry waste.
#Mutant Sheep Born With Human face An Abomination of Nature or a Mutation Caused by Blind Industrialization?
A sheep gave birth to a dead lamb with a humanlike face. The lamb was born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.
Erhan Elibol, a vet, performed a caesarean on the animal to take the lamb out,
but was horrified to see that the features of the lambs snout bore a striking resemblance to a human face. oeive seen mutations with cows and sheep before.
Ive seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes.
the nose and the mouth only the ears were those of a sheep. Vets said that the rare mutation most likely occurred
A goat from Zimbabwe gave birth to a similar youngster in September 2009. The mutant baby born with a humanlike head stayed alive for several hours until the frightened village residents killed him.
The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat
while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible.
The locals burned the body of the little goat and biologists had no chance to study the rare mutation.
and hay to feed cows has gone up sharply while the price that farmers receive for their milk has not.
That means that farmers feed their cows less resulting in lower milk production. At the same time, fewer farmers have been converting from conventional dairying to organic.
and grain fed to cattle, which is partly because of increasing demand for corn for ethanol.
Mr. Azevedo said that cows on organic farms typically produce much less milk than cows on conventional farms.
Last September s meeting, where I served as a moderator, included Bill clinton, International monetary fund head Dominique Strauss-kahn, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski
#Two-headed cyclops pig born in China Two heads are not always better than one.
Some animals that are afflicted sometimes include cows, snakes, lizards, turtles, dogs, cats and chickens. This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,
which is situated in a remote area, Changtai County, in Fujian Province. I ve been raising pigs for 15 years and
I ve never seen anything like this before#We knew something was different because her head was so large#we had to help
#The piglet was of a litter of five and as of yet he has been given not a name.
This piglet is not the first two-headed pig ever born, but it is the latest.
The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens
#Turkey researchers working hard to build a better bird Eastern wild turkeys have that classic turkey look,
but domesticated turkeys are bred generally with breasts so big that they can t mate naturally.
A majority of today s domesticated turkeys may not be able to fly, but their ancestors sure got around.
Meleagris gallopavo, the quintessential New world bird, was already an Old world favorite by the time colonists in North america first celebrated any Thanksgiving feasts.
Today s turkey researchers are investigating the big bird s genetic heritage and biology as part of an effort to improve several aspects of its cultivation.
a team of researchers from numerous labs in the United states announced the sequencing of more than 90 percent of the turkey genome.
This represented a big step in turkey research, but efforts continue. Once you identify genes, the next step is to figure out what they do said
Rami Dalloul, a poultry and immunology researcher at Virginia Polytechnic institute and State university in Blacksburg. What we ve been doing for the past almost year is building upon that sequence
a poultry researcher at the research arm of the U s. Department of agriculture in Beltsville, Md. The researchers have been working with the genetic material from the most popular domesticated commercial breed, the broad breasted white turkey.
It is descended from turkeys domesticated in modern Mexico by predecessors of the Aztecs. The birds were established well as a food source
by the time the Conquistadors arrived. The Spanish took the birds back to Europe, and they quickly spread across the continent.
Very quickly the domesticated turkey became, as far as I could tell, the real first New world food to be adopted in Europe,
#said Andrew F. Smith, a food historian and the author of The Turkey: An American Story.#
they had eaten already turkey, #Smith said. Smith said that by the 1550s, turkeys were already popular at Christmas dinners in England.
When colonists came to the New world, they found large populations of wild birds that provided a reliable food source.
Colonists eventually began raising turkeys, but did not domesticate the wild birds. The commercial birds that we eat today were developed actually in the United states,
#A whole different breedafter hundreds of years of breeding, today s commercial turkeys are removed far genetically from the wild turkeys from Mexico,
which were isolated already from any of the five subspecies of wild turkeys found in the United states today.
The genetic sequence of the domestic turkey differs from its wild turkey relatives, and can be used to illustrate differences between the animals.
which is the domestic turkey, then you have a good reference genome to come back to
Wild turkeys have a gene that makes them resistant to a type of toxic fungus sometimes found in corn and soybeans.
This toxin can be deadly on its own or lower a turkey s resistance to other infections and cause death that way.
No natural matingeven the intended consequences of commercial turkey breeds have introduced complications. Breeders developed birds with more white meat.
The resulting turkeys, such as the broad breasted white, grow muscle quickly, and, as the name suggests,
In the commercial turkey industry there are no birds that naturally mate.##The great majority of turkey farmers must
therefore depend upon artificial insemination, said Long. She suggested that there may be rare exceptions among small farms raising older breeds of turkeys, called heritage breeds,
which may reproduce naturally. Artificial insemination is a laborious job in turkey facilities, as the sperm from male toms must be collected
and female hens inseminated weekly. The amazing thing about the turkey hen is she s capable of keeping viable sperm cells for up to ten weeks after a single insemination,
#said Long. The best we can do and still maintain high levels of fertility is about six hours.#
#If turkey researchers could find a way to increase the amount of time that they can store sperm for later use,
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