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#Glow-in-the-dark pigs created using jellyfish DNA http://www. vimeo. com/82227865 Scientists in China have used jellyfish DNA to create glow-in-the-dark piglets.
A technique developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of medicine allows the ten piglets to glow green under black fluorescent lights.
South China Agriculture University scientists were able to create the glow-in-the-dark pigs by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into pig embryos.
the technique used is used the same to engineer#oeglowing green rabbits#in Turkey earlier this year:
The green color simply indicates that the fluorescent genetic material injected into the pig embryos has been incorporated into the animal s natural make-up.#
and will have the same life span as other pigs.##oethe green is only a marker to show that it s working easily,
And a transgenic pig was able to pass on these genes by giving birth to two glowing piggies in 2008.
As a result, over 50,000 pregnant goats and sheep were culled (i e. removed from breeding), and some farmers decided to halt breeding altogether.
Retailers would either need to pay more for goat products or risk being left short.
According to Britain s National Pig Association (NPA), which is a delightfully real thing, a worldwide shortage of bacon (and other pork products,
there are a variety of factors contributing to our little pig problem. The NPA largely attributed the shortage to the rising cost of food, a cost
The US Department of agriculture released a report in August of 2012 that accurately predicted that hog farmers would cut production
or PED, is taking down piglets in 15 states. And as of now, there s no vaccine in the US just yet.
goats with spider genes that produce super-strength silk in their milk; and synthetic bacteria that decompose trash
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
They drove teams of horses, herds of goats, drifts of sheep. Animals, Smith argues, are autonomous.
#Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.
camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption. The Self-Filling Water bottle http://www. behance. net/gallery/Atmospheric-Water-Collector/3949181 The Atmospheric Water Collector shown above is still not a functional product,
occasionally had some cattle, but not usually,#Oster explained. Like all farmers, they worked with their hands, fixing, welding and building as things broke.
a maverick who dares to dream about the future and who s just unconventional enough to make it happen.
Swimming with the jellyfish, similar to running with the bulls!..Unicycle basketball, because playing the game was way too easy the other way!..
Too bad bulls don t know how to keep score! This one is worth 3!..Intruder alert!..Seen recently on the German Autobahn!..
and also as cattle Feed in the accompanying press release Eva Muller, Director of FAO s Forest Economic policy and Products Division,
Compared to cows (and other large beasts), insects are much much more efficient a food source:#
A cow takes 8 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of beef, but only 40%of the cow can be eaten.
Crickets require just 1. 7 kg of food to produce 1 kg of meat, and 80%is considered edible.#
and ammonia than cattle or pigs and require less land for rearing. And whatnot, insects can also feed on organic by-products such as human and animal waste,
And to cap it all the risk that insects may transmit zoonotic infections may well be less significant than the very real risk posed by cattle, pig and poultry, from
For example, the Guinea Savannah zone covers around 600 million hectares in West Africa#hrough Uganda and Tanzania and encompassing Malawi, Zambia, Angola,
In Uganda, former vice president Gilbert Bukenya has promoted cattle ownership and small-scale production of cash crops that can quickly and easily be sold in urban markets.
Kenya s cows are the top milk producers in Africa, giving 4 billion liters of milk a year,
and marketing of milk that boosted farmers profits, then reinforced those gains by funding research into hardier, higher-output cow breeds.
#Douglas Adams. It s how I feed humming birds, with a mouth full of Red Bull,
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#China s dead pig dumping scandal Over 16,000 dead pigs have been found in China s rivers.
According to recent reports, over 16,000 dead pigs have been joined by 1, 000 dead ducks and, rather ominously, 13 dead black swans in China s rivers.
1. There are a lot of pigs in China. A lot of people, too. But, seriously, a lot of pigs. China has more people than any other country in the world,
and even those with only a passing knowledge of Chinese cuisine are aware of the central role that pork plays.
Unsurprisingly, as a result, there are a lot of pigs in China#round 700 million, according to a Marketwatch estimate.
By contrast, the United states, a country with around a quarter of China s population, has a mere 70 million porkers;
So it perhaps isn t too surprising that the country with a dead pig crisis is also the same one that consumes half of the world s pork.
and correspondingly raise a small number of livestock. This fragmentation has a number of consequences.
Secondly, the small size of the farms means that there just isn t a lot of room to bury dead pigs#specially
if a lot of pigs all die at the same time from an illness. The Chinese government actually compensates large-scale farmers for their dead pigs,
but this only applies to those farmers who have more than 50 on their farm, leaving out the many millions of small-scale players in the market.
Therefore, a farmer with fewer than 50 pigs faces a choice when confronted with a carcass:
either give the pig up to the government for processing (and get nothing for their trouble)
and that worked fine until#3.#China cracked down on illegal pig meat. Responding to political pressure to avoid food supply scandals,
local authorities in Jiaxing recently cracked down on these#oedead pig merchants, #tossing three of them in jail for life for selling dead and/or diseased pigs to market.
As a result small-scale farmers in the area lost their one outlet for financial compensation, turning a once-lucrative dead pig into a deadweight loss.
At this point, then, the fast-flowing river nearby looked like a pretty attractive solution to an annoying (and smelly) dead pig problem.
Can the government make sure this sort of thing doesn t happen again? The agriculture sector is consolidating,
more reliable pork for Chinese consumers#nd will perverse incentives to dump dead livestock in the river.
The dead pig problem is then, like teenage acne, just another awkward byproduct of China s rapid growth spurt.
When news of the dead pig fiasco broke the Communist party immediately declared that Shanghai s water supply was safe and later,
According to a report in the South China Morning Post,#oethe Ministry of Agriculture oversees the raising of hogs,
China s dead pigs can be dismissed as simply an unintended consequence of a government crackdown
They had more exposure to livestock and the microbes that come with them; they were more likely to drink raw milk,
and adopt a dairy cow #or a parasite#to keep allergies at bay? Probably not, says Barnes:
Shortly thereafter the first genetically identical cows chickens, and sheep were produced. What made Dolly a sensation,
however, was the method by which she was cloned. Whereas the mammalian clones before her were produced by splitting an embryo in a test tube
an udder cell taken from a 6-year-old sheep. The cloning method, called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), involves taking the genetic material from the adult cell
scientist have used SCNT to clone other mammals including cat, dog, deer, horse, mule, ox, rabbit and rat.
Repeatedly cloning cattle and cats went no further than the third generation. Frustrated scientists attempted to find out why successive cloning was progressively problematic.
the technique opens up the possibility of cloning highly-valued animals such as prized cattle or racehorses,
cows that produced humanized milk, evenolympic horses. Cloning remains a young science and scientists no doubt have a long list of organisms they would like to clone.
when scientists cloned a bucardo, an Iberian wild goat, that had gone extinct three years earlier, by inserting its DNA
(which they got from frozen bucardo skin) into the eggs of an existing goat. The cloned bucardo was born,
Three Possible Techniques Around the same time as the attempted revival of the bucardo in 2003, Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, took tissue from a Javan banteng (not yet extinct),
and inserted it into an egg cell of a closely related cow. The cow gave birth to the exotic banteng,
which is still alive and thriving. Currently there are three semi-successful techniques being experimented with for de-extinction. 1.)Selective back-breeding of existing descendants to recreate a primordial ancestor is being used for the revival of the European Aurochs,
among others. 2.)Cloning with cells from cryopreserved tissue of a recently extinct animal can generate viable eggs.
#Four-fifths of all antibiotics are consumed by the meat industry Livestock consumption of antibiotics reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
The Pew Charitable trusts crunched the agency s numbers on antibiotic use on livestock farms and compared them to data on human use of antibiotics to treat illness,
livestock farms have been sucking in more and more of the drugs each year#nd consumption reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
the livestock industry is now consuming nearly four-fifths of the antibiotics used in the US,
and poultry production in 2011 compared to the previous year, the FDA data show that antibiotic consumption jumped 2 percent over the same time period.
#¢Of the Salmonella on ground turkey, about 78%were resistant to at least one antibiotic and half of the bacteria were resistant to three or more.
About 12%of retail chicken breast and ground turkey samples were contaminated with Salmonella.#¢#¢Resistance to tetracycline an antibiotic is up among Campylobacter on retail chicken.
and cattle being produced and harvested within its newly enclosed pastures redefined the American diet. In Las Cruces, New mexico, Venue met with Dean M. Anderson, a USDA scientist
a relatively straightforward technological innovation#GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices#has implications that could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals,
Anderson s directional virtual fencing is augmented nothing less than reality for cattle, a bovine New Aesthetic:
the creation of a new layer of perceptual information that can redirect the movement of livestock across remote landscapes in real-time response to lines humans can no longer see.
If gathering cows on horseback gave rise to the cowboy narratives of the West, we might ask in this context,
and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property.
whether it s elephants in Africa or Hereford cows in Las Cruces, New mexico. You will have seen this,
you might have your cows way over on the western perimeter of your land, while the rainfall takes place along the other Edge in two weeks,
Which means your cows are all in the wrong place. It s a lose-lose, rather than a win-win.
and program the polygon that contains your cows to move spatially and temporally over the landscape to this#oebetter location.#
and manpower to gather your cows, you would simply move the virtual fence. It s like those join-the-dots coloring books#you end up with a bunch of coordinates that you connect to build a fence.
which is something that is not currently possible in livestock grazing, even with all of the technologies that we have.
and you program cows to move on your ranch in Montana, and you don t have anybody out on the ground in Montana monitoring
and say,#oethe data saying that this number of cows should be in this polygon for this many days are accurate##or not.
How do you interface with the cow in order to stimulate the behavior that you want? Anderson:
what we know about cow hearing. Cows and humans are similar, but not identical. These cues were developed to fit the animal that we are trying to manage.
Now, if we go back to me as the example, I m very stubborn. I need a little higher level of irritation to change my behavior.
so we cut it right down for our version As the cow moves toward the virtual fence perimeter,
As the cow approaches a virtual fence boundary, we send the cues on the acute side,
If we tried to move the cow by cuing the obtuse side, she would have had to move deeper into the irritation gradient before being able to exit it.
the cow was observed standing near drinking water during this time. Anderson/#Virtual Fencing: Past, Present, and Future#)The key is,
when I put heart rate monitors on cows wearing my DVFDEVICES. I actually found more of a spike in their heart rates
Diagram showing two cows responding differently to the virtual boundary: Cow 4132 (in green) penetrates the boundary zone more deeply,
I m going to say#cows are, in fact smarter than human beings in a number of ways.
I had a Hereford/Angus cross cow, and she was a smart old girl. I started to cue her.
and even after, the surface may be leased to people with livestock. That country over there is pretty much like a bunch of Ws put together.
You probably didn t see the article that I published last year on sheep laterality. laughter Twilley and Manaugh:
Our white-faced sheep, which have Rambouillet and Polypay genetics, were basically right-handed. You ll want to take a look at the data, of course,
but, basically, animals are no different than you and I. There are animals that have a preference to turn right
#I m curious as to how dynamic virtual fencing affects how cows perceive the landscape. Anderson:
cattle would still not cross the line where it had been located. So this could indeed be an issue with virtual fencing,
Part of the reason is that cows want to eat, so if the polygon that contains the animals is programmed to move toward good forage,
the cows will follow. It s almost like a moving feed bunk, if you will. I m sure that, in time#I would almost bet money on this#that
but are we missing some of the other ways that virtual fencing might transform the way we manage livestock or the land?
One day when I was out manually gathering my cows on an ATV I put a voice-activated recorder in my pocket
The cows moved to the corral based on the cue without me actually being present to manually gather them#it was an autonomous gather.
I think this type of thing also points to a paradigm shift in how we manage livestock.
Why not try to manage on cow time, rather than our own egotistical needs##oeat eight o clock,
I want these cows in so I can brand them,#or whatever. Why not mesh management routines with their innate behaviors instead?
##oemaggie the milking cow is the focus of the room and is milked hundreds of times every day by children and adults.
and then trying their hand at milking Maggie the cow. Maggie will be on display in the children s department until November,
River Forest Public library in River Forest, Illinois) Kansas Hog-butchering demonstration (Central Resource Library, Overland Park, KS)# entioned in a recent Wall street journal article
Heirloom poultry breeders#who bring their flocks with them! Beekeeping for hobby & profit Anderson County Public library:
and weight of livestock and uses the data to optimize the feeding and caring process for pork and beef farmers.
By measuring certain attributes of the livestock each day, farmers can issue the appropriate amount of food
and the sows that create them. This use case blew my mind and made me realize how diverse Iot can be.
Playfully destroying pigs or experiencing mind-numbing insta-gasms. Yeah you get the point. If there s one experience
Some now steer themselves using GPS. Monsanto s, loaded with data, can plant a field with different varieties at different depths
Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Livestock biometrics: Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
Scientifically viable in 2017; mainstream and financially viable in 2020. Crop sensors: Instead of prescribing field fertilization before application,
Another Africa-sized amount of water is used on the care of livestock. Fresh water makes up 2. 5%of the total water supplies across the planet.
When a big company bulls its way into an emerging market the clichã is for existing entrepreneurs to say it svalidating the space.
or tracking down cattle that have wandered off help farmers recover the investment, often within a year.
Clone Ranchers Raisingblank humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected,
In 2003, researchers attempted to revive the Pyrenean ibex, extinct since 2000, using frozen tissue.
The cloned ibex died ten minutes after its birth due to respiratory complications. More recently, researchers attempted to resurrect the gastric brooding frog,
#Top 14 Photos of the Week Maybe pigs can fly! Quote of the Week: The question isn t who is going to let me;
Baby musk ox. His parents invented the perfume!..Ice fishing. Obviously the fish are using flashlights or something!..
Sheep walking! Don t bother counting, just keep walking!..Nice touch!..Not sure who is frightened more,
While the night has origins in Europe its celebration has made its way to even American cities such as Los angeles Calif. according to the festival's webpage. 6. The Gavle Goat A tradition
The 13 meter high and three ton straw-made statue was built to showcase the traditional Swedish Christmas straw goat
A giant straw Christmas goat is erected in Gavle Sweden Sunday Dec 3 2006 a centuries-old Scandinavian yule symbol that preceded Santa claus as the bringer of gifts to Swedish homes.
AP photo/Scanpix Pernilla Wahlman) The inauguration of the goat takes place every year on Advent sunday in Castle Square within the city.
According to the event's website the Galve Goat stands in the square from inauguration day until a few days after New year's eve unless it gets burned down
A millennium ago on a mountainside in Africa a herd of goats kept a shepherd up at night after feasting on red coffee berries.
4) That's a lot of turkeys Filling America's appetite for turkeys is a tall task.
The most popular state for raising turkeys was raised Minnesota which 46 million turkeys last year.
Minnesota along with North carolina Arkansas Missouri Virginia Indiana and California accounted for 70 percent of the turkeys raised in the United states last year. 5) More popular than Christmas and Easter?
Even with 12 percent of people not eating turkey on the holiday Thanksgiving is still the most popular holiday for turkey consumption.
It is estimated that 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving beating out the number eaten on Christmas
and Easter combined. 6) That's a big bird The average turkey purchased for Thanksgiving weighs 16 lbs.
7 kilograms) the National Turkey Federation says. White meat makes up 70 percent of turkeys while dark meat makes up the other 30 percent.
In case you are wondering white meat has fewer calories and fat than dark meat (for all those dieters trying to make it through the holidays).
7) Â We can't handle it all Some of what you eat on Thanksgiving is imported from places that don't even celebrate the holiday.
For example 99.8 percent of imported turkeys come from Canada (they actually do celebrate Thanksgiving but in October) while the Dominican republic produces 51 percent of imported sweet potatoes.
 8)  Thank you berry much A lot of cranberries are needed to accompany all that turkey on Thanksgiving.
10) Some turkeys can't fly but they have been to space In fact turkey was the first meal enjoyed by Neil Armstrongâ
and Buzz Aldrin when they were on the moon. Now you can be the talk of your dinner table this holiday a perfect turkey tidbit to impress holiday dinner guests. 11) Bald eagle who?
It's hard to imagine the turkeyâ as the official bird of the United states but if Ben Franklin had had his way it could have been.
In a letter to his daughter Franklin referred to the turkey saying I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country!
The turkey is a much more respectable bird and withal a true original native of America.
All facts are from the United states Census bureau and the National Turkey Federation i
#12 Worst Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals & Their Health Effects<p>Environmental Working group an organization that advocates against the use of toxic chemicals has released a list of the 12 worst hormone disrupting chemicals.</
Here's a look at the weirdest effects of the shutdown from a panda cam going dark to bored Congressional workers. 1. Poison-ivy eating goats sent home Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd
of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway national recreation area in Sandy Hook N. J. was sent back home to a farm in Rhinebeck N y. The goats were there to help eradicate masses of poison ivy that threatened the historic Fort Hancock situated in the park their owner told news media
</p><p></p><p>Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway national recreation area in Sandy Hook N. J. was sent back home to a farm in Rhinebeck
N y. The goats were there to help eradicate masses of poison ivy that threatened the historic Fort Hancock situated in the park their owner told news media.</
But the worst offenders in this category areenergy drinkssuch as Red Bull Sobe Life Water and Monster Drinks.
</p><p>Lawns are one of the thirstiest water hogs in cities and towns. While lawns may be appropriate in some areas most green expanses aren'
t make sense for desert-dwellers to grow thirsty crops such as cotton or raise cattle which requires much more water than producing an equivalent weight of wheat or potatoes.</
Lawns Lawns are one of the thirstiest water hogs in cities and towns. While lawns may be appropriate in some areas most green expanses aren't made of local grasses adapted to grow in the area.
Poor crop choice As the population grows it doesn't make sense for desert-dwellers to grow thirsty crops such as cotton or raise cattle
However some have been skeptical that lab-grown meat would be truly more sustainable than meat from cows.
and currently researchers feed lab meat in part with blood from cow fetuses according to a 2012 Discover Magazine post by Christina Agapakis a synthetic biologist at UCLA. Researchers have proposed that they could one day use algae to feed cultured meat
When it comes to animals a variety of characteristics can be wrapped up in a common name including where an animal lives (mountain goat) what an animal eats (anteater) the color of an animal (brown bear) or more broadly
and increasingly popular delicacies (in South america) have more fur and faster metabolisms than any true pig.
and the only thing they share in common with true pigs is that they are mammals
and have nothing more in common with domesticated dogs than guinea pigs do with true pigs. The call of the prairie dog is thought to sound like the bark of a dog
Snake milker Some jobs are not for the faint-of-heart: Snake milkers are animal care specialists who extract the venom of poisonous snakes.
Snake venom while not exactly milk is nevertheless a life-giving substance (when used correctly. The venom deadly on its own is the main ingredient in snakebite antidotes and a wide range of medicines.
Snake milkers have the job of extracting or milking the toxic substance from a snake's fangs.
For example the Norse god Thor (known in German as Donner) flew in a chariot drawn by two goats
and an assortment of compounds including sheep's blood. Used correctly the e. p. t. was 97 percent accurate for positive results and 80 percent accurate for negative results.
and crickets may not be obvious choices for Turkey Day but at a special event this week bug aficionados can taste new insect-y twists on Thanksgiving staples such as pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce.
Patrons will be offered samples of treats along with a small cube of turkey. Those who like what they tried can ask for seconds.
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