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Polar bears hunted for their high prices
Americans want to protect polar bears, but at $100,000 a head, the Inuit want to hunt them. - Read More
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Topics : Biodiversity
Reducing methane by reducing animal farts
Researchers tried everything, from changing the animals? diets to breeding less gassy new sheep. They?ve made cocktails of clover, garlic, cottonseed oil to curb methane. Even tried feeding the animals chloroform to stymie production of gas, But nada. Dietary additives known to reduce methane don?t work well long run; they cost too much or the animals don?t digest them well. Chloroform additives worked, but the animals? stomachs adapted and started emitting again. - Read More
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Vegetarianism and Sustainability
Like the cars we drive, the animals we eat have wide-ranging efficiencies. Beef cattle are the SUVs of animal agriculture. Renowned energy expert Vaclav Smil calculated that the U.S. agricultural system uses 32 kilograms of feed to produce 1 kilogram of edible beef. Poultry is the fuel-efficient compact of the animal world, with around one-eighth the feed ratio of beef. - Read More
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Topics : Lifestyle
Heifer International - Gifts Breeding Animal Pairs
This org gifts breeding pairs of animals such as cows, goats, pigs, rabbits etc. Each recipient must agree to give one breeding pair of offspring away to another family, thus paying the gift forward
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Heifer International - Gifts Breeding Animal Pairs
This org gifts breeding pairs of animals such as cows, goats, pigs, rabbits etc. Each recipient must agree to give one breeding pair of offspring away to another family, thus paying the gift forward
Tags : heifer international heifer international unique ideas