Scottish farmers will now be forced to vaccinate their sheep and cattle against the deadly bluetongue disease; the first compulsory vaccination programme in the UK. England and Whales have already done this...
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RFID tags are radio frequency identification tags, which are sometimes referred to on the Web as "ARPHIDs." If you are a citizen of the USA, you either have one of these in your passport now, or you will have one in your new passport. In Europe (sorry, not sure about Canada)...
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Amid a world food crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping poor Peruvian farmers confront a cold spell threat called "El Friaje". This friaje phenomenon "involves a combination of unseasonable low temperatures, frosts, snow and hail that damages crops...
Gray wolves have been put back on the endangered species list. "For these reasons, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction (dkt #2) is GRANTED. Endangered Species Act...
"The food processing industry is one of the largest in the country and is ranked fifth. Facts and figures show that India is the third largest producer of food, largest milk producer and largest livestock holder in the world. India, the world’s second largest fruit and...
The slaughter of about 15,000 hens began today in northwest Arkansas, after a flock tested positive for exposure to a strain of bird flu.It makes me so sad to see the pictures of thousands of animals being bulldozed...
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"Bosintang. Ever heard of it?Well, it’s Dog Soup. Big item in Korea. I’m not talking about the North Koreans, living on a starvation diet in Li’l Kim’s workers paradise. No, this is prosperous South...
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Since February 11, Yellowstone National Park and the Montana
Department of Livestock have slaughtered 505 of America's last wild
buffalo. Yellowstone Park Rangers have captured 607 wild buffalo in
the Stephens...
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Viral/Pandemic Warning"DHAKA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka and to the port city Chittagong despite efforts by authorities to contain it, livestock officials said on Wednesday....
"So, was anyone surprised that the FDA told us cloned livestock is okay to eat because, "it is beyond our imagination to even find a theory that would cause the food to be unsafe," on the very same day they also pointed out that, "currently, it is not possible to draw any...
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The year 2004 was a dismal year for the dog breed known as the Caucasian Mountain Dog, and was even more dismal for the several poor individual dogs that were killed unnecessarily! And how did all this come about?...
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UPDATE 13 September 2007; Initial tests suggest the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey is the same strain found in the area last month which originated from the Pitbright laboratory..
"A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered in the same county as...
Here's a good rebuttal for anyone still running into the C02 - They Call It Pollution, We Call It Life crowd.A favorite argument of global warming deniers is that the carbon dioxide causing global warming is...
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"· Guerrillas in clashes with Revolutionary Guards
· Conflict threatens stability of Kurdistan regio
Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards participate in military training at an undisclosed location near the...
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