#Why Chocolate Is Bad For Dogs Chocolate and dogs do not mix. To most of us, chocolate is a delicious substance.
To dogs, chocolate is also delicious, but potentially lethal. Chocolate contains theobromine, a naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean.
It affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. Its the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs in sufficient quantities.
But it takes, on average, a fairly large amount of theobromine to cause a toxic reaction#For more specific figures,
50 mg/oz So, the general rules for the amount of chocolate that will be toxic for a dog:
one ounce per pound of body weight (so, without intervention, a 16 pound dog (7. 2 kg) would likely die from eating one pound of milk chocolate) Dark chocolate:
1/3 of an ounce per pound of body weight (around 5 ounces of dark chocolate for that same 16 pound dog) Bakers chocolate:
1/9 of an ounce per pound of body weight (around 1. 8 ounces of bakers chocolate for a 16 pound dog) Cocoa powder:
1/16 of an ounce per pound of dog (around 1 ounce of cocoa powder to kill a 16 pound dog) On the other extreme end,
it would take about 200 pounds of white chocolate consumed within a 17 hour period to reach toxic levels of theobromine for a 16 pound dog.
Sheep can also pass psychological tests that monkeys would fail, according to their study. Dr Laura Avanzo and Dr Jennifer Morton were studying neurodegeneration with a focus on Huntingdons disease
Only humans and other primates find these kind of responses easy; most other large animals struggle with them,
the scientists said. Successfully completing the tasks relies on the prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain larger in humans than other animals, New Scientist reported.
Animal behavioural specialists have focused for decades their attention on monkeys during testing. Dr Avanzo and Dr Morton believe this is because sheep,
like many humans, behave differently when in a flock compared to when alone. Dr Morton said:
and for our customers at the restaurant who have eaten those animals,#Breton designer Kate Huling,
were interested in people having another opportunity to really honor the animal.##They receive 10 to 20 bags every couple of weeks,
One of the first people to uncover evidence for a once greener Antarctic was none other than the explorer, Robert Falcon Scott.
Cabbage worm. If you start seeing pretty white butterflies fluttering around your broccoli, youre guaranteed to start seeing little green worms all over your broccoli plants.
To avoid this, cover your broccoli plants with floating row cover or lightweight bed sheets. If you start seeing cabbage worms,
simply pick them off by hand. 2. Peas There is nothing like peas grown right in your own garden#the tender sweetness of a snap pea just plucked from the vine is unlike anything you can buy in at a store.
Aside from being absolutely delicious, peas are high in fiber, iron, magnesium, potassium, and Vitamin a, B6,
Cabbage worms (see Broccoli, above. 5. Tomatoes Fresh, homegrown tomatoes are the reason many gardeners get into vegetable gardening in the first place.
Tomato horn worm can be a problem in many areas#these large caterpillars should be removed by hand
Aphids and flea beetles are the two most common insect pests when growing peppers. While both can be controlled with insecticidal soap,
homemade sprays to deter these pests. A tomato leaf spray will get rid of aphids, and garlic/hot pepper spray works very well on a flea beetle infestation. 7. Beets Beets are a great two-fer#crop#you can harvest the beet roots, of course,
but you can also harvest and eat the greens. Young beet greens are added delicious when raw to a salad,
and larger beet greens can be sauteed as a quick side dish or used the way youd use other greens such as Spinach beet roots are very high in iron, potassium, and Vitamin c.
Rarely, leaf miners can become a problem. 9. Carrots Carrots are at their sweetest, crunchiest best when freshly harvested from the garden.
Heat and cabbage worms. Most leafy greens are cool-weather crops, so theyre best grown in spring
which means they are prone to cabbage worm infestations. Control them with the same methods outlined in the Broccoli#section, above.
#Top 10 Photos of the Week Todays couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
I didnt see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: theyre crouching and hidden.##
its best to avoid the one with the Soccer Cocks. They tend to play dirty
the Amazon rainforest will no longer be able to act as a carbon emission sponge, which will amplify the impacts of
and it occurs in other mammals as well. The goose bumps are caused when individual muscles at the base of each hair contract
but the reflex makes sense for animals. When humans are cold horripilation causes their hair stand up,
For animals with fur, air pockets are trapped between the hairs which create an extra layer of insulation.
In response to fear or anger, raised hair would make an animal seem larger and more intimidating.
The best example of this is the porcupine whose spikes stand up when threatened. It seems that horripilation is simply a reflex left over from the evolutionary process,
and 5%thought that trees which dont lose their leaves during winter are called Carnivores. But wait, it doesnt stop there. 6%of British adults thought strawberries grew on trees,
so it should come as no surprise that 25%of British kids did not know what a mouse looked like.
Drugs can persist in an animals system because of misuse of medicines on the farm,#reports the Times,
#Farmers are known also to ignore rules about the minimum wait time after administering drugs before sending an animal to slaughter or into milk production.
#Collapse of the Honeybee Population Could Be linked to Pesticides Even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
The US research, revealed in a new film about the disappearance of bees, found even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
The chemicals, that mimic the insect-killing properties of nicotine, are used widely in the UK on both ornamental garden plants
prompting fears for food security as the insect is vital for pollinating many major crops. However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
It makes the plant toxic to certain insects if they eat the sap. However scientists fear that the systemic chemical also makes it into the plants pollen
revealed in new film The Strange Disappearance of the Bees, exposed two groups of bees to the common insect disease nosema.
Matt Shardlow, of insect charity Buglife, said most bee deaths in the UK are caused by disease.
which have shown that these chemicals could be the cause of the decline of bees and other wild pollinators,
Pests and disease seem to be the major factors and pesticides seems to be low down the list.#
approved by the Government, have proved that neonicotinoids do not harm bees and other insects if applied properly.
#Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey The White-Headed Duck is threatened among many fowl.
Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkeys Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world that initially provoked much international alarm.
plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey#According to a biology professor at Hacettepe University in the capital city of Ankara,
more than half of the 437 bird species that are regularly found in Turkey are at serious risk.
the head of the universitys Environmental Education and Bird Research center, told the state-run Anatolia news agency recently.
Bird Populations In Turkey Have decreased By Half The other 65 species out of the 502 identified in Turkey are seen only at certain times.
However, of the 437 species, the Oriental darter and bald ibis have disappeared already from the natural habitat in Turkey,
adding that total bird populations in the country have decreased by half over the past two decades.
The Oriental darter is a species that once nested around Lake Amik in Hatay; however, they have not been observed in the region
He said the last time wild bald ibises were observed in Turkey was when three were found in Å anlä urfas Birecik district in 1988.
adding that bird populations around the lake are threatened also by flights from the nearby airport in Isparta.
or forced the destruction of hundreds of millions of birds, according to the world animal health organization OIE.
While large poultry producers could benefit from this early type of transgenic bird, smaller backyard#farmers would need to wait until scientists create birds that can be bred on small farms.
That would be a means of ensuring that the birds these small farmers bred themselves still carried the protective transgene,
#Tiley said. To breed their GM chickens, the researchers introduced a new gene into them that manufactures a small decoy#molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognizing the decoy molecule instead of the viral genes
Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus, but they did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them
#even if those chickens were normal, non-transgenic birds. The study was published in Science. The researchers said they now plan to work on trying to make chickens that are fully resistant to bird flu rather than just blocking bird-to-bird transmission.
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#Genetically modified crops That Glow Green When Stressed Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes.
#when plant immune systems are under stress#as might be caused by plant pathogens, drought, insects, etc.
each GM plant serving as an attack sentinel for the surrounding a crop zone#It is unclear how exactly how pest
#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?
Well, probably not. But the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO) thinks it is time for an end to the Eewww!#
#response to the thought of eating insects. The FAO reports that there are more than1000 edible insect species. Insects can provide protein in the diet at a much lower environmental cost than traditional livestock, such as cows, pigs, or sheep.
The FAO started the push to improve the image of edible insects at a workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand,
where bugs are already a common feature on the menu. The proceedings of the Chiang Mai workshop on edible insects are now available online (pdf.
Since then, the FAO has been campaigning to increase appetites for insects, focusing especially on developing areas where protein supplies are scarce and sustainable harvesting of insects can contribute to both nutritional and economic improvements.
For example, in May 2010, the FAO launched a program in Laos featuring celebrity chefs competing to whip up the tastiest insect dishes.
Insects offer many advantages as a sustainable source of protein. The cold-blooded creatures require less feed to produce proteins.
For example, a cricket can produce the protein equivalent of cows with six times less feed. Furthermore, insects can often feed on organic waste matter.
Moreover insects are considered already delicacies in many cultures, and the practice of eating insects goes back millenia.
The Eewww-factor is learned a behavior reflecting our recent sensibilities about hygiene and health (quite ignoring the fact that we are all eating bugs already in foods meeting prescribed contamination limits).
But insects which are raised properly, harvested and prepared present no risks to health. Quite the contrary:
insects offer healthy nutritional value including largely unsaturated fats, high iron content, minerals, and vitamins.
Of course, no campaign to market a new food trend can get around the fundamental question: how do they taste?
Flickr user avlxyz, pictured above, reports on the experience: The creamy belly tasted like scrambled eggs,
while the thorax/lung area was a bit spongey. The shell is pretty tasteless and not edible anyway.#
#Not convinced? Well, at least for those of us in parts of the world where simply meeting our minimal nutritional demands is not the major issue,
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#Chicago Combats Food Deserts and Childhood Obesity One Seed at a time Chicagoans that vote for their favorite seeds, get free seeds to plant in their gardens.
#said Anil Margsahayam, cofounder of another underground eatery, the Stag Dining Group, so named because all five owners (chefs, hunters, marketers, performers and conservationists) are unmarried
He has taped segments for two coming Travel Channel programs, Bizarre Foods#and The Wild Within,#where he prepared roadkill raccoon.#(
#The raccoon was supplied by the TV SHOW, he noted.)He has about 22,000 subscribers to his newsletter,
a zero-landfill environment,#said Matthew Homyak, a cofounder of Stag Dining. As far as employees are concerned,
#said Jordan Grosser, one of two professionally trained chef-owners with Stag Dining. Mr. Rabins did not attend culinary school.
Alarming Decline in Bumblebees Found in U s a bumblebee gathers pollen from a sunflower. Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United states,
researchers reported Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide.
As with honeybees, a pathogen is involved partly, but the researchers also found evidence of inbreeding caused by habitat loss.
We provide incontrovertible evidence that multiple Bombus species have experienced sharp population declines at the national level#
These are one of the most important pollinators of native plants,#Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana,
But most studies have focused on honeybees. Bumblebees are also important pollinators, Cameron said, but are studied far less.
Bumblebees pollinate tomatoes, blueberries and cranberries, she noted. The 50 species (of bumblebees) in the United states are associated traditionally with prairies and with high alpine vegetations#
she added. Just as important#they land on a flower and they have called this behavior buzz pollination that enables them to cause pollen to fly off the flower.#
#POLLINATING TOMATOES This is the way to pollinate tomatoes, Cameron said#although smaller bees can accomplish the same effect if enough cluster on a single flower.
Several reports have documented the disappearance of bumblebees in Europe and Asia, but no one had done a large national study in The americas.
Pollinators such as bees and bats often have specific tongue lengths and pollination behaviors that have evolved
Bumblebees can fly in colder weather than other species, and are key to pollinating native species in the tundra and at high elevations,
Genetic tests show that the four affected bumblebee species are inbred and other tests implicate a parasite called Nosema bombi,
This is a wake-up call that bumblebee species are declining not only in Europe not only in Asia,
#Rare Miniature â Panda Cowâ##Born Rare panda cow A rare miniature cow with markings similar to a panda was born on a farm in northern Colorado.
The so-called panda cow#born in Larimer County is thought to be one of only about 24 in the world.
Donovan, is a panda bull on the farm. Farmer Chris Jessen raises miniature cattle and also owns a miniature kangaroo on his hobby farm.
The miniature panda cow is the result of genetic manipulation. A white belt encircles the animals midsection
and the cow has a white face with black ovals around the eyes, giving it a panda-like appearance.
The mini-cattle are bred solely as pets. Jessen says panda calves can sell for $30, 000.
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#Pepsico is Betting Consumers Want to â Snackifyâ##Drinks Tropolis Because healthy food just isnt cool enough for todays youth,
the folks at Pepsico will soon be rolling out snackified,#amped-up to the extreme!##pureed fruit in the form of something called Tropolis.
From the Wall street journal: Tropolis, an 80-calorie fruit puree, which comes in brightly colored pouches,
Yup, we have fat rats. In a long-term study, rats that were feed genetically modified corn became obese compared to rats that were fed natural corn.
With all this information about GMOS in our diet. I think it s time to label them
Make sure to see the pictures of the rat tumors. Those things are huge! They specifically tested the rats on GM corn and soy.
Buy organic and GMO free. 10. Social media leads to premature death..just kidding. I would cry
#Nonetheless, Mr. Gavura said he would welcome a reduction in the use of antibiotics in animals.
There is growing concern among health care experts and policy makers about antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs,
among other things, called for limiting the use of medically important human antibiotics in food animals#and supporting the use of such antibiotics in animals only for those uses that are considered necessary for assuring animal health.#
Analysis of Food and Drug Administration data by the Center for Science in the Public interest found that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states are used in animals.
which most animal production takes place today. The European union has banned the use of antibiotics to accelerate growth,
and worms that afflict goats and sheep. Dr. Harry G. Preuss, a professor of physiology and biology at the Georgetown University Medical center
studied the effectiveness of oregano oil on 18 mice infected with staph bacteria. Six mice were given oregano oil,
and half survived for the full 30 days of the treatment. Six received carvacrol, regarded by many experts to be the antibacterial component in oregano, in olive oil,
Six other mice received only olive oil and died within three days. The study, which was underwritten by a company, North american Herb and Spice,
Mr. Ruth and Mr. Sechler warned that using oregano oil to control bacterial infection also requires maintaining high standards of sanitation in barns where animals are sheltered,
and to ensure that the rodents that carry salmonella and campylobacter are eliminated. You can t just replace antibiotics with oregano oil
Re-Nest has more: Chef s Farm comes with five nutri-culture beds, which are installed each on long and thin metal frames.
The lettuce seeds are planted in sponges in frames that have to be moved manually The lighting equipment, culture solution,
The iphone and ipad have about 700,000 apps, from Instagram to Angry Birds. Yet with the American economy yielding few good opportunities in recent years, there is debate about how real,
Mr. Nicholas and a friend, Brent Miller, were inspired to form a company. We were going to make another million
#Brent Miller said. His father took out a second mortgage. Revenue is now coming in, with 3,
#Scientists plan to clone Brazil s endangered species Black Lion Tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species in Brazil Scientists in Brazil want to expand a mass effort to clone the populations of eight
endangered species. The Basilia Zoological garden, along with Embrapa, the government s agricultural research agency are spearheading the project.
the species they ll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus; jaguar (Panthera onca;
black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus; bush dog (Speothos venaticus; Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua;
collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla; gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira; and Bison bison bison. Bison are not native to Brazil,
although the rest of the species all have some of their primary habitats within the country s borders.
The black lion tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species, is the only one that lives exclusively in Brazil.
Cloning and similar techniques have been attempted with endangered species before, with varying degrees of success. A 2011 effort to breed African black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in the U s. was successful,
although it wasn t technically cloning. A 2009 attempt to clone the extinct Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) in Spain didn t work out as well:
the resulting kid only survived for seven minutes after birth. If the Brazilian cloning effort is successful,
the animals would all be carbon copies of each other and therefore not useful for maintaining genetically varied populations#uch diversity is key to a population s resilience in the face of various diseases and predatory threats.
Instead, the cloned animals would live at the zoological garden. The idea is to keep these animals in captivity,
#Embrapa researcher Carlos Frederico Martins told the Inter Press Service. The use of clones would prevent the impact caused by the removal of wild animals from their natural setting.#
#He says Embrapa was the first organization to clone animals in Brazil and its researchers have cloned already successfully domesticated cows (a fairly common practice around the world).
Now, they hope to apply what has been learned to the eight endangered species. According to Martins, the cloning technology is expensive
and has a fairly low success rate#to 7 percent#lthough he says this is on a par with other cloning efforts around the world.
None of the species on the zoo s list are endangered critically. Most are listed as Near Threatened#or Least Concern#on the International Union for Conservation of Nature s Red List of Threatened Species,
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I do own animals. I do chores before school and I have football practice after school and then chores after that,
Selective breeding/strains Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular traits.
and animals they consume in order to produce food products that are genetically stable. It is also the reason that a bull named Badger-Bluff Fanny Freddie has sired thousands of the dairy cattle in the United states. 9 Grinding/milling Grinding is the process of grinding grain or other materials in a mill.
It produces, among other things, flour, which is the main ingredient of bread#a staple food for many cultures.
The nets are still in wide use today, and currently include casting, drifting, dragging, landing, trawling,
or a marketing tool that gulls people into overpaying. The production of organic food is governed by a raft of regulations that generally prohibit the use of synthetic pesticides, hormones and additives.
#Similarly, organic meat contained considerably lower levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria than conventionally raised animals did,
As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.##The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists
and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee, economists at the Massachusetts institute of technology, made the case for a rapid transformation.
and almost all of the precise work is done by robots that string together solar cells and seal them under glass.
The assembly line here is made up of dozens of glass cages housing robots made by Adept Technology that snake around the factory floor for more than 100 yards.
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