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including a low-cost nutcracker for farmers in Morocco and a solar-powered incubator for guinea fowl in Burkina faso.
Many small-scale Ugandan farmers own a few cows, which are milked twice a day to sell locally or to larger dairies.
So, instead, they turned to another product that cows produce in abundance. A small farmer with five cows produces a lot of dung,
says Kisaalita. You can ferment the dung, and use a fraction of the biogas to run the milk chiller.
the small farmer could milk her cows in the evening, chill it, and then add more milk in the morning.
And if you don't chill milk within four hours of milking the cow the bacteria grows to a point where it just goes bad.
the sheep. The team had found a way of replacing the nucleus of a sheep's egg cell with a nucleus from an adult ewe's cell,
and yet still trick the egg into dividing as normal. After the hybrid egg cell began dividing,
From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.
The first, Noah, a threatened species of ox from Southeast asia called a guar, was born seemingly healthy on 8 january 2001.
Scientists at the American biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technologies who had helped pioneer cloning in cattle,
shuttled nuclei from gaur skin cells into cow eggs and then implanted the embryos into cows.
However, Noah died two days later of an infection unrelated to the cloning process. And like the guar, other attempts to clone endangered species through somatic cell nuclear transfer tended to be one-offs.
What is more, the technologies that scientists are hoping to use have mostly been developed for use in laboratory animals and valuable livestock only.
She read a chunk of the Senates healthcare reform bill, a document called oewhats in A can of Red Bull?(
Last September s meeting, where I served as a moderator, included Bill clinton, International monetary fund head Dominique Strauss-kahn, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski
The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens
Clone Ranchers Raising blank#humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected
There are no such things as a pig molecules, or a fish molecules, or a wheat molecules.
and its pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.##In one camp are established the long players.
which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology
#Cow collar texts ranchers when animals are sick or in heat Even cows can benefit from having a mobile device.
A new collar being developed for cattle ranchers could send cow health updates to farmers cellphones.
The device could help ranchers save money in the long run, monitoring the health of their animals and prevent accidental deaths.
The Silent Herdsman collar will track the movements of the cow using the same type of sensors found in Wii devices.
when cows are in heat The collar is being developed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Morrisons, Scottish Agricultural College, Harbro, Well Cow, National Milk Records (NMR) and Embedded Technology Solutions.
and around the world and we wish the partners every success.#This isn t the first invention to connect cattle to monitoring technology.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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,
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,
The eventual goal said William Gallus a meteorologist at Iowa State university is warn-on-forecast.
or half-hour of advanced warning Gallus told Livescience. Using tornado simulators Gallus and his colleagues are working on understanding how local topography affects the way a tornado might move
and strengthen. For example they've found that ridges cause tornadoes to deviate left as they climb up
or so away Gallus said causing damage far afield from the actual funnel cloud. 50 Amazing Tornado Facts Moore in particular has been hit by three violent tornadoes in less than 15 years:
but Gallus believes it's worth looking into the local landscape for possible influencing factors.
Gallus isn't the only researcher looking to get a hyper-local look at how tornadoes work.
but in Joplin doors and glass windows at either end of long halls were destroyed by debris creating a dangerous situation Gallus said.
In their new study Uno and his team tested the radiocarbon dating technique on the tusks of two elephants that died in 2006 and 2008 as well as elephant and hippo teeth monkey hair and oryx horn.
#Harnessing The Power Of Peacocks To Make Colorful Images (ISNS)--The gloriously colored iridescent feathers of the male peacock aren't
As a peacock moves around its tail colors appear to change. That's because its iridescent feathers reflect different colors or wavelengths of light at different angles.
 But while peacocks use feathers Guo's team uses metals which interact with light in more complicated ways.
To simulate the peacock effect the Michigan researchers combined the techniques. They etched nanoscale grooves on a piece of glass with the same technology used to etch computer chips.
which is the same one used to create the cloned sheep Dolly in 1996.5 Wild Stem Cell Discoveries
For example scientists can take a normal embryo from the uterus of one cow transplant it into another
and have a 60 percent chance of a normal calf being born. Transferring a cloned cow embryo into a cow uterus results in a healthy calf less than 10 percent of the time Cibelli told Livescience.
When you see that scenario whoever wants to move this into humans quickly I think it should be said criminal Cibelli.
So far Mitalipov and his colleagues have not been able to grow a cloned monkey fetus to term suggesting that primate reproduction may be even more complex than what is known from Dolly the sheep and other farm animals.
In 2003 biologists brought back a Pyrenean ibex by making a clone of frozen tissues harvested from the last of these goats.
But South korean biomedical engineer Insung Hwang hopes to find just a cell nucleus and produce a clone from it like Dolly the sheep.
Live animals are used only to provide cells from which cell lines can be grown (though the blood of unborn cows is needed to culture most cells.
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
when converting vegetable mass into protein as pigs and five times as efficient as cattle. In addition the husbandry associated with raising grasshoppers is compared relatively simple to that needed for cattle chickens
or hogs and their rapid reproduction rate and short life cycle allows a stable and continuous harvest.
Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.
can trigger abortions in goats and sheep and cause flu-like symptoms and sometimes pneumonia in humans.
and agriculture ministries coordinated their efforts poorly before they ordered a cull of more than 50,000 dairy goats in 2009,
And my administration is taking steps to limit antibiotic use for livestock. This will help ensure that antibiotics are used only address diseases and health problems
One of those animals, a cow, secretes milk that lacks an allergy-inducing protein because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1.
And in pigs, scientists have used an enzyme called a TALEN2 to scramble a gene that would normally help remove cholesterol.
For years, researchers tried to remove the allergy-inducing milk protein beta-lactoglobulin from cow's milk
They inserted DNA encoding a version of this microrna into the genome to create genetically modified cow embryos that they hoped would grow into cows without the allergen in their milk.
Out of 100 embryos, one calf yielded beta-globulin-free milk.""This isn t a quick process,
That's why it has taken so long to succeed in making an allergen-free cow, he says.
who contributed to the work in pigs.""In essence, we are just mimicking an evolutionary process with precise, man-made editors.
Pigs with this condition may be reliable models of human atheroscelerosis in biomedical research. The TALEN-modified pig is not the first model of human heart disease (see Model pigs face a messy path),
but the technique makes genetic engineering less costly and more efficient.""I d be exaggerating if
I said that pigs and cows can now be thought of as big mice, but we are moving in that direction,
says Heiner Niemann, a bioengineer at the Institute of Farm animal Genetics in Neustadt, Germany. The excitement surrounding these technological advances is bittersweet, however.
Wagner says he has tasted not the milk from his special cow because he s not permitted to under New zealand law."
In the west ranchers set barbed wire to hold their cattle and this in effect set up their property boundaries.@
They let their cattle just roam free. Luckily the cattle are not a consideration for the land of the moon.
I think the real goal would be to mine Helium3 if possible. But if the homesteaders find water somewhere in the depths of the moon too I feel water found on the moon would be worth like gold
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.
I don't think all people are cattle but I do think a large majority of the 8. 3 Billion on this planet are in that category.
Several days into the expedition they head there for dinner and order a round of local Red Rooster beers.
Pigs! In this study they found major health issues to the pigs'uteri and stomach. That's one of the very few long term experiments conducted
and the case has been highlighted because of the use of rats. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat strain that SÃ Â ralini used is used also in long-term 2-year toxicity
Now to the pigs Conclusion Pigs fed a GMO diet exhibited heavier uteri and a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation than pigs fed a comparable non-GMO diet.
Given the widespread use of GMO feed for livestock as well as humans this is a cause for concern.
The results indicate that it would be prudent for GM CROPS that are destined for human food
Humans have a similar gastrointestinal tract to pigs and these GM CROPS are consumed widely by people particularly in the USA
if the findings of this study are applicable to humans. www centerforfoodsafety. org/press-releases/2291/new-peer-reviewed-study-on-gmo-pig-feed-reveals-adverse-effectsthe case study:
First Long term Study Released on Pigs Cattle Who Eat GMO Soy and Corn Offers Frightening Results www. nationofchange. org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy
-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723stunning Corn Comparison: GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
And it's Likely in Your Water articles. mercola. com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/19/gmo-corn-resulting-livestock-deaths. aspx?
e cid=20120719 dnl artnew 24 More Damning Studies on GMO Corn: 1. A 2008 long-term study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food safety looked at how Monsanto s genetically modified corn currently eaten
The team used CT scans to create a CAD file of a sheep's meniscus
and extracted cells from the sheep to print an identical one. Although Lipson's first meniscus looked promising
The longevity of Dolly the Sheep is minimal and will find the same of cells produced by âÂ# TâÂ#Â#cells of maturity.
Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow's shoulder in a gentle biopsy and grown in calf serum with micro-exercise
so they wouldn't be flabby. 20000 cells were assembled then into a burger bound with bread crumbs
Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect. The amount of livestock we have now has a large environmental impact.
This could be a viable alternative to supplement our food supply cheers. yea sure say good bye to all those cows why raise em
when you can brew them (i assume cheaper) sooo except for the amish and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement
i supposehi welcome to Petri-Burger! Would you like to try our new Bald eagle petri-nuggets?
Over 40%of our man made greenhouse methane comes from livestock for food. With an exponentially growing population of 8. 3 billion there isn't enough feed in the world to keep that number of cattle pigs
and chicken up to compete with the growing demand. This is certainly good news! We can reduce the number of livestock and stop KILLING helpless animals!!!
I'll take A g-burger please!!!Make it rare since I doubt mad-cow disease will ever be a byproduct.:)
One of them was claiming that a cow uses 28 calories of grass to make a calorie of beef
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
or hundreds of TONS a day from a single vat and some psycho or terrorist contaminates the vat with the Sheep Scrapie Mad cow disease Kuru or Croitzfeld-Jacobs Disease prion?
1) Not efficient-The current growth medium is made from butchered calves. That means the original grass or grain must be fed to a cow first
and then the unused food value that remains in the blood of the calf after slaughter is available for meat production plus some additionally highly processed nutrients. 2) Amoral
-While the cow had a gentle biopsy the calves didn't have it so nice
when their blood was extracted. This is a bit of a deal killer for vegans or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food.
I'm sure your grandparents feared younger generations that didn't know how to farm and rear livestock.
We could keep livestock alive perhaps for a few months longer with reserves of feedstock supplies like hay
</b>I would estimate that at least 99.99 percent of humans would be dead within a year with people who own livestock
but they would have to manage their livestock and food for the livestock very carefully and will probably use fire instead of electricity for cooking starting about month 3 if not sooner
since the infrastructure will be collapsing around them with difficulty in staying warm in heating homes except for those that have wood or coal fireplaces.
so his focus has shifted of late to our friend the pig. The technique involves taking genetically engineered pig embryos that are incapable of growing their own pancreases
and implanting human stem cells. The pig embryos will then grow amazingly a human pancreas.
When the piglets are born the pancreas is harvested and then can be implanted into a human in need.
Pigs are chosen because they're common and well-understood and also because their organs are of similar size to our own.
Japan currently has a ban on what's called in vivo experiments meaning within the living Essentially Japanese law forbids experiments that involve a whole living creature like these piglets.
In vitro or within the glass is permitted. Nakauchi has for years been campaigning to change this law
How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really? It's a debate without easy answers
Poor piglets. They do reciprocate human love at a young age. Intelligent species. Sad. Do not try
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