So aren't we seeing common examples of our bodies as evolutionary machines in things like allergies from our choice not to be hanging out in the cow pasture long enough to stay desensitized?
To many cow forts in the world makes for a sweaty beer. Please eat more veggies less meat!!!
when people claim that eating veggies will stop cattle farming and lead to less green house gass production1. farm subsidies means that the cattle will live longer before being slaughtered for a cull
or beef production. 2. cattle farming will move to areas like colby beef production also again increasing the length of the cattle life span
and increase in farts also the beer and speciual diets fed to the cattle will increase the farts. 3. the increase in vegetables will decrease the natural arid landscapes kept by cattle farmers that adds to the clean air in favour for industrial farming that ruins natural habitat
and only produces plants that do little to clean the air or moderate the microclimate...
so shut up about the cow farts and preach electric cars instead...if you must open your mouth at all after this...
This creature is a gerenuk Litocranius walleri a species of antelope native to the dry brush and scrubland of East Africa.
The gerenuk is called also the long-necked giraffe though it is not closely related to the giraffe.
though it is in the same subfamily as the gazelles. The gerenuk's identification with the giraffe comes from both its long neck and its feeding habits.
As the gerenuk lives in hot dry sparsely-vegetated areas it has to reach high up to find leaves
and twigs to eat --so it stands up on its super-muscled hind legs reaches its long neck up
and can plug leaves off the acacia tree that gazelles and other antelopes can't come close to.
Their appearance is adorable and odd; it looks as though they have enormous ears but in fact their ears are proportional to the rest of the body.
There are an estimated 95000 gerenuks in the wild; the species is listed as Near Threatened with habitat loss and fragmentation the key culprits.
Hi gerenuk! Maybe you should disqualify zoologists from winning and ask the proposed winner about their career path.
#We're Losing The Battle Against Wild Pigsfrom Berlin to Mississippi feral pigs are proving to be one of the most efficient and dangerous invasive species ever known.
Darn wild hogs. They can have a litter of a dozen and 13 survive. The only thing better then bacon is wild bacon...
The fact is hunting wild pig can be difficult and dangerous...and the cost/availability of ammo doesn't help. 1) Request a truckload of US Marine snipers to set up in any county of your choosing you won't know they're even there.
They only sign of them ever being there is a zone free of pig and a faint scent of bacon.
Wild pig meat is popoular in Europe and pepole pay extra for it. So what it they are smarter than deer.
Also I do not understand where there would be a problem in finding the proper caliber of rifle to hunt pigs with Lol they are just like humans but bullet resistant.
Is there really a losing battle going on against wild pigs? I don't see one. It's a problem that's not being addressed.
and cape buffalo there's one for Ms. Piggy. Seriously a line of snipers and some old school animal drives ought to take care of the problem
On the one hand we're told that pigs are causing damage in 47 states. And in another article we're told that their natural predators wolves have been taken off the endangered species list
Check out Youtube to see wolves taking down boars. Trapping them in cages and selling them too Europe works the best people have jobs doing this.
I heard that in Texas the bounty on them is around $10 per pig. Not much of an incentive to get rid of the problem.
In Alberta they're $50 per pig and some counties will give you an additional $50 per pig for a total of $100.
That is a worthwhile use of your timethey're yummy and the price for their meat is higher than for beef.
has had anyone here wild boar They are very gamey tasting and not very good you basically have to cook them a very particular way to get them to taste good
They should start holding sporting contests with cash prizes for the biggest boar brought in much like a fishing tournement this might drive the population down.
Feral hogs eat wolves. They are vicious and very tough. The folks at Red Jacket Sons of Guns build an AR platform in. 458.
It's intended especially for wild hogs. 2 shots not one. Mikeg hogs are not indigenous to The americas-no natural predator.
I know plenty of people who hunt these with AR-15's in. 223. What they say is key is the quick follow-up shot that the AR's AK's
Hogs are hard to kill due to their intelligence not their hide. Up close there are the tusks to tend with.
if these wild pigs have been unto acorns in their diet while free-roaming they should taste good--provided they be gutted asap once killed. a trip in southern Spain exposed
me to the delectable hamon Iberico. the black Ibverian pig w c is indigenous in southern Spain
I'm all about only domesticated animals like cows...they don't want to eat me just stare at
Animals like cows and pigs can digest cellulose thanks to symbiotic bacteria in their digestive tracts
Like the bulls are so big you can only get one in a boxcar. So Globegenius you're from Texas?
What about having sex with your hand the door a chicken a cow or horse?
In her new book The Magnificent Chicken Brooklyn-based photographer Tamara Staples makes a strong case for the purebred Gallus gallus domesticus from the ultra-dignified Black Langshan Cockerel to the eccentric
If you have never been to a poultry show you've probably never even imagined chickens as diverse and stunning as the ones in Staples'portraits.
or so poultry processing plants in the U s. Workers man massive assembly lines to scald pluck gut slice
Unsurprisingly work in poultry plants is dirty and dangerous. The job of chicken deboner (who cuts through the shoulder joint to separate the wing from the body) is particularly brutal
But teaching a machine to carve poultry is difficult. No two chickens are the same and each cut must be perfect.
just as they would in a conventional poultry factory. 2) Assess Each chicken passes through a kind of photo booth.
v=Urvfcqghslqkuka is doing this with pigs already http://www. kuka-robotics. com/canada/en/solutions/solutions search/L r280 050528 westfleisch. htman overhead conveyor keeps the carcasses moving continuously through the slaughtering line at a speed of 170
This is necessary as the pigs are all of different weights and sizes and have differing anatomical features.
The first robot in the line a KR 30 equipped with a double shackle then cuts off the pigs front feet at a defined position.
Following a renewed 3d laser measurement a KR 60 also installed in the inverted position breaks the pig s pelvic bone with a cutting tool resembling a cleaver and scores the abdominal wall.
With brain-wasting disease in our deer and elk and steroidal enhanced deficiencies accumulating in our cows this bodes really well for U s as a nation huh?
The empty virus'creators a team of researchers from the U k. have tested the synthetic virus in just eight cattle.
Five of the cattle showed resistance to foot -and-mouth infection after getting immunized. The U k. might have particular interest in driving this research forward.
Foot-and-mouth disease infects cows pigs and sheep giving the animals fevers and blisters and reducing the amount of milk they give.
Their meat and milk are still technically safe to consume and the disease doesn't affect humans
#16,000 Dead Pigs In The Huangpu: Can You Still Drink Shanghai's Water? Chinese officials have fished more than 16000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River from
which more than one in five Shanghai residents draw their drinking water. Remember when it was just 2000 pigs
and that seemed pretty crazy? Meanwhile officials keep saying that the water is still safe to drink.
Pig carcasses dumped in water could release pathogenic bacteria into the water. Even healthy pigs carry some manure in their bodies
which in turn has E coli that could cause diarrhea and other symptoms. The greatest danger would come from carcasses left long enough that they bloat
Popular Science asked experts from two groups that work on water quality in China to weigh in on the pigs'potential effects on Shanghai's drinking water.
It is hard to know for sure what the effects of the pigs have been because those data points aren't publicly available Macdonald says.
They have added also non-routine tests to target the pig situation looking for Streptococcus Salmonella E coli O157 and thermotolerant coliform bacteria.
Although they offer daily updates on the Huangpu's water quality Chinese officials haven't explained why farmers have chosen recently against regulations to dump so many pigs into the river the Guardian reported March 22.
me that the farmers that were raising the pigs decided this is the best option Macdonald says.
There was a news article in Chinese World Journal newspaper about why the farmers dump the pigs.
For every dead pig government is suppose to pay 80 Chinese Yuan to the farmer to help them control the cost.
On top of that there was a crack down on the illicit dealers of dead pigs who would buy these dead pig for 50 a piece.
Having no outlet for the dead pigs and they don't want to spend money to properly dispose of the pigs the farmers dump the pigs in the river.
Dead pigs are bought by those dealers for meat and skin. Don't ask where they end up!
The proper disposal of the pigs are supposed to be decomposition sites where they are reduced like other organic matter.
So it's safe water. And the most powerful people in Shanghai no doubt provide this safe water for their own children to drink yes?
what's already in that water 16000 dead pigs is as nothing. Luckily for the Shanghainese of that locale the presence of a dead body in water and the hazards borne of it are one of the oldest and easiest lessons learned by humans.
The question that concerns me more is did where the first chicken find its rooster? Chickens as a species became chickens through a long slow process of evolution.
Whiter rabbits will always do better in snow than black rabbits shorter-legged boars will always do better in denser jungles) The still unproven part of the evolutionary theory (it's still a theory) is Macro Evolution.
FOR HER POLAND AND FOR MORE THAN CALVES AND ALL CUT IN HALF FOR NAZI INVASIONS INTO POLISH LEVOV ALL CRASS!
ALL SWINE! and joe bush barac's protectoraterun's! fiat's like golden dawn's!
bill gate's your barbados n s. a. intel eproms get you PIG ONE! nuremberg whiny or guiltymicrosoft!
like a pig duck! hung a king in iraq! on hoods IN HOODS! PROTECTORATES! CEASERS VALKRYS!
FOR HER POLAND AND FOR MORE THAN CALVES AND ALL CUT IN HALF FOR NAZI INVASIONS INTO POLISH LEVOV ALL CRASS!
Pretty sure I just heard a sheep. Or maybe someone imitating a sheep. In what kind of weird coffeeshop was recorded this?
Is there a coffeeshop with a sheep in it somewhere? Where is this sheep I want to drink coffee near it. 12:36:
Talked to my friend Lindsey Weber who is a very good entertainment blogger and often works from coffeeshops.
She says: There's nothing more depressing then being fooled into thinking that there's coffee nearby when there actually isn't. 12:37:
Got distracted and started looking at Wikipedia articles about sheep. Remembered that when I was a kid
I thought goats and sheep were the same animal just that goats were male and sheep were female.
I'm not sure when I realized this wasn't true but it might have been around the first time
I saw goat milk. 12:44: THERE'S THE SHEEP AGAIN! It comes in at around 4: 00
if you guys are curious. 12:49: Just spent 5 minutes reading about different breeds of sheep.
There are a lot of breeds of sheep. Early research suggests the Jacob sheep is one of the coolest sheeps. 12:51:
Starting to get kind of soothing! I work for 10 minutes and then listen for the sheep
and then work for 10 more minutes with small breaks for wondering whether a coffeeshop with a sheep in it could be a successful business.
I think probably it could everyone loves sheep right? 12:55: Nobody's asked me what I'm listening to yet.
I think I'd probably lie. 12:56: Is the spelling weird on the name of the service too?
Shouldn't it be Coffeetivity? Not that it's a great name anyway but like if you're combining coffee with productivity
I'm not sure how you end up with Coffitivity. It sounds like a service for building coffins more efficiently. 12:57:
Unignorable sheep sound is unignorablethere is an hours long loop of the Enterprise D engine noise on Youtube.
A herd of cattle was killed by cyanide gas produced by genetially modified grass in Texas in June of last year.
www. cbsnews. com/8301-201 162-57459357/gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths Oh wait...
and we put that out with raising cattle. If you don't know what you are talking about then stfu.
if belching bovines and manure piles are having such a devastating effect on our global temperature shouldn't temperatures have plummeted in 1879 with the wholesale slaughter of 5 million buffalo?
There are still large populations of Bison living on the North american continent. Not tho mention the fact that there is currently a far greater acreage of the US covered by forest than there was 100 years ago thanks mostly to the commercial timber industry.
On Dec 26 a grand jury handed down several indictments against the owners of the Columbia Packing Company for dumping pig blood into a creek.
Wondering what the difference is between a longhorn cheddar and a New york variant? Wondering how feta relates to provolone?
Because I've been around goats and I don't want cheese that tastes like what goats smell like
but more importantly I can't imagine the taste combo or even identify those characteristics in the cheese that I know.
Livestock like eating it so you can pay a farmer to haul it away and serve it to cattle.
Magic Hat in Vermont teamed up with a company called Purposeenergy to build a biodigester that turns grain into natural gas.
All the meat and poultry commodities combined--beef game pork and poultry--were responsible for 22 percent of illness
but poultry is still more likely to kill you. stomach flu--deposited by food handlersdoes this mean the migrants are taking dumps in the field LOLHOW much of this effect is down to the fact that we are all hyper aware of handling raw meats
and dairy while the deaths group I believe is dominated by meat (poultry I'd assume).@
Ever think that farms that farm greens may be in proximity to farms that raise livestock?
1. Noroviruses (even human stains) have been found in livestock-who's to say that rain doesnt wash contaminated feces into these fields?
That has also been linked to livestock/animal waste. http://www. fda. gov/Newsevents/Newsroom/Pressannouncements/2007/ucm108873. htmwash your food and cook it at the correct temperature for the correct amount of time.
and wondered whether the blood inside it could be used for DNA analysis. Gilbert tested the idea by feeding 40 leeches goat blood.
After he ground them into a paste he found that every one contained goat DNA even four months after its last meal.
and their cattle sheep goats horses etc. The name was actually an accurate description of the land at the time.
at least when we initially domesticated wolves they served a purpose we needed them to help us with livestock to hunt vermin etc...
#Here's How Big A Problem Wolves Are For Cattle Ranchers Infographic We got a lot of heat for this essay about problematic wolf-hunting laws in Wyoming.
As a followup here's a nice visual representation of all the threats facing cattle in the United states
Much of the motivation for the laws allowing wolf-hunting in states like Wyoming (though this is national data) come from an assumption that wolves are a major problem for cattle ranchers--that wolves are responsible for significant so-called
unintended cattle loss. Unintended cattle loss by the way is the term the USDA uses for cattle who die before they are killed in slaughterhouses.
The data does not support that assumption. This data comes from the U s. Department of agriculture and the infographic was made by the Sierra Club.
if they didn't allow hunting the wolf population would balloon with the easy meal that cattle present.
That means if you want to hunt deer elk moose antelope ducks geese cougars and now wolves you have to buy a permit.
Some of the cattle are never found because they have been consumed completely or their remains have been moved to a location the farmers can't access.
in this case you Mr. Nosowitz are willfully misleading to support your agenda of protecting an endangered species. It is not honest to imply that your infographic supports the claim that wolves are not a threat to livestock in any one state
I suppose probably comparing it with the the total cattle market nationwide. The problem with this approach being that not all the cattle ranchers in the U s. share one big budget of profits and expenses.
To the large operator who has deep pockets no maybe that much money isn't such a big deal.
But not all cattle ranchers can afford to lose livestock to wolves. Consider that. As for wolves being dangerous to humans or not
and kill the American bison is safe to you and I. The fact is Dan is an idiot.
It isn't even acceptable to calculate it state wide in Montana given that so few cattle are exposed to wolves.
and across freezing rivers moms being separated from their calves or not even allowed to fully give birth.
So that's why cow heel soup is so expensive. Damn wolves. lolthis is Popsci website blog
because range cattle's not raised there maybe for a good reason). How about some statistics on cattle predation in only the relevant states s
#Obama's Inaugural address: We Will Respond To The Threat Of Climate Change""President Obama vowed to tackle climate change in his second inaugural address today.
and heat makes a field. plus we are thinkin wrong about mars. we need big domes one for humans one for livestock
and crops and one for water treatment and energy to power the dome for livestock
#Herd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotech Ranchlet's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California
and you have a big ranch where you keep thousands of goats. You use the goats to produce all kinds of antibodies that you then extract
and sell to biological researchers all over the world. You are in fact one of the world's biggest suppliers of these antibodies--a true industry leader.
They keep telling you that you need to provide adequate veterinary care for your goats and that the animals'facilities must be maintained in good care
I don't know failing to mention that you've got a barn down the road with 841 goats inside of it--give'em one less place to make trouble.
along with the 841 goats 12 of which were not technically speaking in good shape. To make matters worse the inspector could tell that the barn had been used for a while
Meat from two Irish processing plants has been found to contain substantial portions of pig and curiously horse DNA.
and it's likely that many would have no objection to eating pig or even horsemeat.
neither pig nor horse is kosher and pig is not halal. The second is that
even though these samples of meat are safe it does not speak very highly of the regulation in place for meat processing especially in the UK
instead to get there cow or meat from China they all be dead including their pets.
Looks like the FSAI needs some better funding. u guys r dumb. so you're sayin that you would eat something as hideous looking as a cow
or pig but not eat something that looks healthy and beautiful as a horse???get outta heere!!!
not to mention how dirty cows and pigs are compared to horses@solarflaredont be an animal racist. ---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
But they follow an antelope till it gives up with exhaustion and they gather all sorts of roots
and as long as they keep buying his stuff they don't even have to become a disgusting porker;
In 2012 genome researchers sequenced the DNA of an unborn human baby the western lowland gorilla fruits and grains and livestock.
145 Wild Bisonthe America bison (whose scientific name we re delighted to report is used Bison bison bison to roam across the prairies by the millions
Bison have bounced since back often by interbreeding with cattle. Yellowstone s population of 5000 bison is the largest and most genetically pure
but it has a problem: Although the 145 bison to be given away have a clean bill of health many of the park's bison are carrying a disease that devastates livestock herds.
Brucellosis is caused by the bacteria Brucella abortus so named because it causes cattle to miscarry their fetuses.
The disease has been eradicated in 48 states everywhere except Wyoming and Montana where 50 percent of Yellowstone s wild bison may be infected.
That s something that makes local cattle farmers understandably nervous. Since 2005 Montana has quarantined the bison inside the park to keep them away from livestock
and the park has attempted to lower the prevalence of the disease in wild bison. Part of the plan included culling diseased bison from herds
and another part used calves that tested negative for Brucella to establish a small disease-free population that was kept segregated from untested bison.
Although a 2011 study said that the measures have not been successful in reducing the prevalence of brucellosis in the overall population there hasn t yet been documented a case of transmission between Yellowstone bison and livestock.
The program did manage to establish a Brucella-free herd in a research facility and over the last few years bison from that population have occassionally been given away to start new herds on public lands and Native american territories.
A study published this spring confirmed that the quarantine procedures worked and the segregated bison were Brucella-free.
Now the park is ready to give away a new installment of healthy bison. Conservationists hope eventually the iconic animals will once again roam freely (and safely) across the grasslands of the American Midwest n
#Climate Week 2014: The Wrap-Upas Climate Week NYC slips into the rearview mirror what can we take away?
Did anything you know happen? Yes...sort of. From the sci-tech perspective important energy and conservation agreements were announced.
Now the hard work of putting them into action begins for the pledgers and signers as well as those watchdogging that process.
or forage that cattle are able to eat. Cattle don't eat tumbleweed. They can pile up against houses creating a fire hazard.
I had a call from another fellow in California just recently who's just terrified of the fire risk Berner says.
#German Boars Are Too Radioactive To Eatin Germany boar meat is considered a delicacy consumed in various forms such as salami and boar leg.
But now German restaurant-goers may want to rethink ordering boar the next time they dine out (and it s not because of boar taint.
According to the Telegraph recent testing in the state of Saxony has revealed that more than one-in-three wild boar in Germany are so radioactive that they're considered unfit for human consumption.
Boar carcasses are supposed not to exceed radiation levels of 600 becquerels per kilogram but in the past year 297 out of 752 boar tested in Saxony have su this safe amount.
Some boars have tested even dozens of times over. The illuminating trend is thought to be a lingering effect of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster one of the worst nuclear power plant accidents in history.
More than 28 years ago a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant in Soviet-run Ukraine releasing radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
And since wild boar dig through soil for food they are affected particularly by this contamination. They also eat underground mushrooms and deer truffles
Apparently researchers have been cataloguing this pattern of boar radioactivity for some time and they don t believe it ll go away any time soon.
Experts predict it may be another 50 years before boar radiation levels return to normal the Telegraph notes.
In the meantime Germans should keep an eye out for any boars exhibiting super powers e
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