#Mexican Investments in U s. Create Jobs, Taking over U s. Brands Mexico city-based Bimbo bought the U s. baked-goods operations of Weston Foods taking over 22 industrial bakeries and 4, 000 distribution routes.
A new kind of Mexican immigrant is making it big in the USA: huge Mexican corporations that are snapping up U s. brand names, opening U s. factories and investing millions of pesos north of the border.
#Latest Ag Innovation Mobile Slaughterhouses Any animal, anywhere, any time The slaughtermobile a stainless steel industrial facility on wheels is catching on across the country,
000 animals a day. oethere are farming operations that are really big and do huge volumes of food and thats part of American agriculture and thats good,
pork and lamb raised on local pastures by farmers who can vouch for the animals diet and treatment.
Thats difficult for a small farmer raising animals in pastures, where weather and other variables can affect their growth and readiness for slaughter.
But without a federal or state inspection seal, or a special exemption allowed by some states,
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
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
And once the animal is slaughtered, the carcass still has to be brought to a packing house for cutting
000 animals a day. oethere are farming operations that are really big and do huge volumes of food and thats part of American agriculture and thats good,
pork and lamb raised on local pastures by farmers who can vouch for the animals diet and treatment.
Thats difficult for a small farmer raising animals in pastures, where weather and other variables can affect their growth and readiness for slaughter.
But without a federal or state inspection seal, or a special exemption allowed by some states,
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
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
And once the animal is slaughtered, the carcass still has to be brought to a packing house for cutting
and when one lone ladybug sat through Mary poppins, evolution took another tiny step forward...In the future, the square fruit in the grocery store will be found next to the square vegetables and the square poultry sections...
A zoo run by flies is such a zoo. No really...When you look at yourself in the mirror,
Erotic symbolism is used often to cover up the fact that the cat is indeed naked...Even though it was pretty damn ingenious,
Early in the morning, donkey-ridden cart full of harvest transporting to the town, while a few of the children walking toward the different direction to school...
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
The poorer farmer used horse to take the place of donkey. later I knew that
since different kinds of animals had different temperaments, they were used together to control each other. If one of them refused to move,
no toilet and no running water for the five people who live in this mosquito-infested hut in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
dogs bark and the muezzin leads the call to prayer. In front of the hut, the mother is cooking maize porridge over an open fire,
#A Caterpillar That Pretends to be a Fearsome Snake This small caterpillar with bold yellow
and blue markings scares off its predator. At first glance it may look like a fearsome snake but this rearing creature is actually a small caterpillar with a cunning means of defence.
The Spicebush Swallowtail has evolved a large pair of false eyespots and bold yellow and blue markings to frighten off potential predators.
Pics) The brightly coloured insect, which is only a few inches long, was snapped by wildlife biologist Jonathan Mays in Maine,
U s. He was photographing the striking caterpillars and the large black and orange butterflies they turn into in a red maple forest.
Mr Mays, said: Swallowtail caterpillars are beautiful creatures. They strike a sense of wonder from many observers.
Swallowtails have spots on their head that mimic snake eyes and are amazing to view. The disguise is very lifelike,
so much so that even the reflection or eye-shine changes when viewed from different angles. The habitat was a spicebush stand amidst a red maple forest.
I was at this site looking specifically for the caterpillars. The caterpillar can also emit a pungent scene
if a predator gets too close The photographs show two different Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillars. One was found moving to a new feeding position
while another was spotted inside its leaf retreat. The caterpillars also have a few other tricks to keep them safe.
When they first hatch out, the tiny caterpillars look like little brown bird droppings. They spend most of the day folded up inside leaves as they develop.
The caterpillar turns into a striking black and orange butterfly. Finally the caterpillar has forked a, fleshy organ just above its head,
which it can use to emit a disagreeable odor, should a predator get too close.
Mr Mays said: Im pleased with the photographs. The sharp angles and depth of field really accentuate the eye spots
and each picture demonstrates a different reflection. The caterpillars live in folded leaf shelters and eat the leaves of the sassafras or spicebush.
Adults consume a variety of nectars, including those from azalea, Japanese honeysuckle, milkweed, and thistle flowers.
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#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,
allowing the researchers to harvest the silk protein from the goats milk for a variety of applications.
For instance, due to its strength and elasticity, spider silk fiber could have several medical uses, such as for making artificial ligaments and tendons, for eye sutures,
getting enough spider silk for these applications requires large numbers of spiders. However, spiders tend to be territorial,
so when the researchers tried to set up spider farms, the spiders killed each other. To solve this problem, Randy Lewis, a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming,
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.
For instance of seven goat kids born in February 2010, three have tested positive for having the silk protein gene.
and purify the spider silk protein into oemuch, much higher quantities, Lewis said. Other than their ability to produce the spider silk protein,
the goats do not seem to have any other differences in health, appearance, or behavior compared to goats without the gene,
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives,
and shrinking numbers has led to a rise in thefts of hives. Now researchers from Chandigarhs Punjab University claim they have found the cause which could be the first step in reversing the decline:
and productivity of bees in two hives one fitted with two mobile telephones which were powered on for two fifteen minute sessions per day for three months.
After three months the researchers recorded a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phon, a significant reduction in the number of eggs laid by the queen bee.
The queen bee in the oemobile hive produced fewer than half of those created by her counterpart in the normal hive.
They also found a dramatic decline in the number of worker bees returning to the hive after collecting pollen.
Because of this the amount of nectar produced in the hive also shrank. Ved Prakash Sharma and Neelima Kumar, the authors of the report in the journal Current Science, wrote:
Honeybee behaviour and biology has been affected by electrosmog since these insects have magnetite in their bodies
which helps them in navigation. oethere are reports of sudden disappearance of bee populations from honeybee colonies.
The reason is still not clear. We have compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone radiation exposed
and unexposed colonies. oea significant decline in colony strength and in the egg laying rate of the queen was observed.
The behaviour of exposed foragers was influenced negatively by the exposure there was neither honey nor pollen in the colony at the end of the experiment.
Tim Lovett, of The british Beekeepers Association, said that hives have been successful in London where there was high mobile phone use. oeprevious work in this area has indicated this mobile phone use is not a real factor,
The UK Government has set aside £10 million for research into the decline of pollinators like bees,
with more than half of hives dying out over the last 20 years. The most recent statistics from last winter show that the decline in honey bees in Britain is slowing
with just one in six hives lost. This is still above the natural rate of ten per cent losses,
There has been an increase in the number of thefts of hives across the world and in Germany beekeepers have started fitting GPS tracking devices to their hives.
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#The Secret of the Strength of the Great wall of china Lies in Sticky Rice Mortar The use of sticky rice was one of the greatest technical innovations of the time.
which provide energy for the potential pollinators. But the floral nectar of some plant species also includes small quantities of substances known to be toxic,
The presumption is that natural selection has favored those plants that satisfy the desires of their pollinators.
white dog or simply white whiskey is the liquor of the moment, bringing together whiskey geeks, home distillers and high-end mixologists, all of
None of the luxury-tinged language that surrounds its grown-up siblings, like bourbon or scotch, applies to the dog.
Kentuckys Buffalo Trace (one of the oldest and most admired distillers in the U s.)makes White Dog,
small washing machines, scooters, dental work, cellphones, and satellite television with oe21 Tamil TV STATIONS. oerural communities buying insurance and moving into the consumer classes is proof of the growing aspirations, awareness,
or bacteria to pesticides but none of these have yet been agreed upon as the reason for this astounding decline The number of managed honeybee colonies in the US fell by 33.8%last winter,
The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination,
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the farmer, is wrestling with a particularly tenacious species of glyphosate-resistant pest called Palmer amaranth,
In an attempt to kill the pest before it becomes that big, Mr. Anderson and his neighbors are plowing their fields and mixing herbicides into the soil.
be kind to animals and not to cut trees. The followers are principled so as to lay down their lives to protect a tree The Bishnois are called rightfully the first environmentalists of India.
Deers, Black bucks, Peacocks, Blue bulls, Chinkaras, are some of the animals that you would find roaming around their settlements.
Because of Bishnois and their commitment to protection of nature, many animals have survived this long. Nowhere else would one find a perfect marriage of all forms of flora and fauna.
Long before Rain Harvesting concept caught fire to combat the severe drought and water shortage, the Bishnois build water storage tanks that can collect and store rain water.
This water is not only for humans but animals too. Bishnois oppose to their religious tradition of cremating the dead.
One of their principle tenets oeamar Rakhave That means to provide shelter for abandoned animals
The Bishnois do not tolerate destruction of flora and fauna by unnatural means. They are very protective of their surroundings
#Use Cucumbers and Other Natural Products To Keep Insects Away Repel Pests Naturally! You may not know it,
Home improvement blog Apartment Therapy suggests using cucumbers to keep ants away, along with other natural repellents that keep multi-legged home invaders at bay.
Instead of using harsh chemicals to keep bugs away, try some natural, free solutions Weve previously mentioned how to repel mosquitoes with plants,
and offered vodka-based insect repellent, but what about the ants finding refuge from the summer heat in your home?
Apartment Therapy serves up a few tips that we hadnt seen before, including discs of cucumber.
As summer approaches, ants flock to kitchens on the hunt for food crumbs. Ants are appalled by cucumbers;
therefore, the cucumber slices work best when placed near cracks or other areas where ants may enter the home.
You will need, of course to change out those discs every so often as they spoil, and youd probably want to put them on top of wax paper
For other ways to repel flies, moths, and other bugs, check out the article below. If youve got your own trusty DIY bug repellent solution,
sound off in the comments below. Household Pest Control: 5 Natural Bug Repellents Apartment Therapy Photo by Il conte di Luna.
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#Monsanto Takes Fight To Control Your Food To Supreme court The battle over the non-regulated status of genetically modified crops has reached the US Supreme court. Monsanto has appealed,
not surprisingly a lower court decision that halted the continued unregulated release and planting of the agrifood giants Roundup Ready Alfalfa.
Where do you think the cat flap ranks on his list of accomplishments? Rumor has it that Newton invented the cat flap
when his beloved pet kept nudging the door to his lab open while he was working on light experiments,
ruining hours of work. But he loved his cat and didnt want to shut her out of his lab or trap her inside.
The solution? He cut a hole in the door, then installed a piece of felt at the stop so the least amount of light possible would seep through.
Allegedly, when the cat had kittens, he cut a smaller door for them to go through
even though they easily could have gone through the larger door. However, take this story with a grain of salt at least two Newton biographers have done extensive research on the mans life that turned up no trace of a pet of any kind.
Whats a parent to do when their helpless infant is suffering after a terrible accident? Well, if youre Roald Dahl, you team up with a couple of other guys to invent a brain shunt to ease the pain.
the intruder smashed a plate glass window of a dessert shop in Lincoln, Neb. Inside, destruction.
not-too-bright, testosterone-filled birds into cities and suburbs, 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,
and thrive in predator-free suburbs. The bountiful turkey population is creating awkward interactions with people who have little experience with wildlife.
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.
The birds couldnt hack it. The invention of a netting gun that captured wild turkeys alive changed everything.
The birds thrived in reforested areas. Today, 7 million wild turkeys live in 49 states. Alaska is the only turkey-free state.
because there are so many birds. Feeding wild turkeys is the biggest cause of turkey trouble, he says.
One resident fed buckets of corns to the birds. oewe had complaints about property damage,
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,
Mostly, male birds interact with humans. Mating season lasts from February through May, depending on an areas climate.
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.
once hitting two deer on the same trip. This was his first turkey. When he tells other truckers,
was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat, but this is the first time Ive seen car versus turkey,
#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 lines are low, stone walls, usually found as angled pairs, that begin far apart and converge at circular pits.
A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai desert confirms
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,
The research shows that the construction of the kite was sophisticated actually more than it seemed before,
in Israel. oewe have no doubt at all that the kites were built for hunting, not for any other suggested function.
For a time, many researchers suspected the kites might be corrals for protecting domesticated animals, but that idea has fallen out of favor as more research has been done. oethe hunting theory is accepted the most,
and it appears that for most kites this was indeed the use, said Dani Nadel,
another kite researcher from the University of Haifa, Israel. oethere are similar structures, either from wood or from stone, on most continents.
Interestingly, the walls of the kites are not high enough to actually block the animals.
A careful examination of not just the kites but their locations in relation to pastures and migration routes makes it very clear that desert kites were specialized for specific types of animals.
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,
the pit would have appeared to the animals in the funnel as an opening in the boundary walls of the kite through
which they could flee, Avner reports. Another sort of kite was found on steep slopes or ridges below a plateau
or shoulder of a hill so that animals driven over the ridge would suddenly be confronted by the installation before and below them,
Avner explained. As for why the kites fell out of use its still a bit of a mystery, says Nadel. oethey were abandoned, in several south-Negev cases,
by the beginning of the middle Bronze age, said Nadel. oethis may suggest a climatic change and or a shift in subsistence strategies.
Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
On the uncovered top deck. not quite ready in time for the opening. will come a petting zoo
and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Its beyond comprehension, said Mary Louise Starosciak,
Similar to growing coral in the oceans or crystals in a laboratory growing rocks may become an expansive new area of farming.
and more sparse than a traditional British sheep, begins shedding around the animals neck and legs,
begins shedding around the animals neck and legs, often leaving a temporary patch in the middle. Where a normal sheep would produce up to 20lbs (9kg) of wool, the Exlana
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
and appointed a watchdog for the IPCC. The Interacademy Council a coalition of 15 national academies of science, will review the work of the IPCC by this fall.
however, Mcintyres supporters eventually included people who know how to secretly hack into computers and steal data.
Jones was like a spider in its web. Almost every internal debate among the climate popes passed through his computer, leaving behind a digital trail.
Mr Kerin says this situation has made post graduates in agriculture oescarcer than hens teeth. He blames the image of agriculture
Pyrolysis takes plants, animal manure or any other kind of organic biomass, traps it in an oxygen-free environment and heats it to around 550°C. At the end, youre left with biochar,
#Amazing Tree house Hotels Cedar Creek Treehouse From The swiss Family Robinsons massive forest hideaway to the Berenstein Bears oeno Boys Allowed backyard version,
and youll see birds, bugs, plants, and animals that youd never come across on the ground.
The owners of these tree house hotels also have an unsurprising passion for the environment, using reclaimed wood, low-energy devices,
and fauna that you can only see from treetop height. Have dinner on the deck as the sun goes down,
If confirmed, the study could bolster the idea that early angiosperms promoted the rise of certain insects.
Modern insects like bees and wasps rely on flowers for nectar and pollen. oethe fossil record suggests that a lot of these insect groups originated before angiosperms appeared,
said Stephen Smith of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. This study shifts the oldest angiosperms back farther in time towards the origin of groups like bees and flies,
the scientists say. oeif you take our dates and superimpose them on the evolutionary tree for these insect groups,
all of a sudden you get a match, said Beaulieu. To trace the origins of flowering plants, the researchers used genetic comparisons of living plants and clues from fossils to reconstruct the relationships among more than 150 terrestrial plant species
like mammals and birds, said Donoghue. Why the mismatch between different approaches to dating the tree of life?
said Donoghue. oebut its hard to imagine flowering plants would have had a big impact on the origin of major insect groups
adding that wearers did not have to worry about real monkeys because the underwear did not smell like a banana.
The research was carried out by the Institute on behalf of Birds Eye the frozen food manufacturer. Nutritionist Dr Sarah Schenker said:
#Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females The pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are able to mate
Here, two male frogs mating. The larger animal on the bottom has been feminized completely by atrazine exposure
and can produce viable eggs. A commonly used pesticide known as atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are successfully able to reproduce,
a new study finds. While previous work has shown atrazine can cause sexual abnormalities in frogs,
such as hermaphroditism (having both male and female sex organs), this study is the first to find that atrazines effects are long-lasting
and can influence reproduction in amphibians. The results suggest that atrazine which is used a weed killer primarily on corn crops,
could have potentially harmful effects on populations of amphibians, animals that are already experiencing a global decline,
said study author Tyrone B. Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley. Atrazine is banned in Europe.
And since atrazine interferes with the production of the sex hormone estrogen, present in people and frogs,
the findings could have implications for humans as well. oeif you have problems in amphibians, you can anticipate problems in other animals,
Hayes said. Sex change Hayes and his colleagues raised 40 male African clawed frogs in water containing atrazine
from when they were larvae all the way up until sexual maturity. The atrazine levels were about
what the frogs would experience in environments where the pesticide is used, and below levels that the U s. Environmental protection agency considers safe for drinking water.
They compared this atrazine-exposed group with 40 other male frogs reared in atrazine-free water.
At the end of the experiment, all frogs in the atrazine-free group remained male, while 10 percent of the frogs exposed to atrazine were feminized completely their genes said they should be male,
but they had female anatomy, including ovaries. The feminized frogs were able to mate with males and produce viable eggs.
In both frogs and humans, sex is genetic. In people, females have two X (sex chromosomes,
while males have one X and one Y. For frogs, the sex chromosomes are labeled as Z
or W and females have dissimilar chromosomes (ZW), while males have matching ones (ZZ). Frogs exposed to atrazine also had reduced testosterone levels, decreased fertility,
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