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• in Lifestyle
  FDA Limits Antibiotic Use in Livestock
  The FDA released a report limiting the use of a commonly used class of antibiotics in livestock.
  by jenna3967 / on Jan 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “livestock”

 

• Deadline for Conservation Easement Funding in Florida is Approaching

  
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  Landowners interested in restoring or enhancing wetlands and/or grasslands only have about a week left to take advantage of several easement programs offered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Florida Assistant State Conservationist for Easement Programs Roney Gutierrez says the 2013 funding deadline for ...
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• Mandatory COOL Discussion Not Over

  
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  During last week’s markup of the farm bill in the Senate, an amendment to repeal mandatory Country of Origin Labeling was withdrawn, but the discussion is far from over. Download Audio
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• U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 3 Percent

  
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  USDA’s latest Cattle on Feed report shows there were 10.7 million head on feed as of May 1st, down 3 percent from May 1, 2012. Download Audio
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• Poo-Free Self-Filling Duck Waterer

  
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  The mobIf any of you have had any experience with ducks, you’ll know that they produce and deposit enormous amounts of nutrient — aka duck poo. It usually ends up over everything they come in contact with. A general good practice is to keep them on water and then either fertigate [...]
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• Health Effects of Antibiotics in Meat – Undercover in an American Slaughterhouse

  
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  Where does our meat come from, and how dangerous is it to our health? There have certainly been many controversies over meat during the past years. Infectious diseases ended the heyday of fast-foodism, from the Jack-In-the-Box ecoli scare in the early 1990s to the mad cow disease controls of the late 1990s/early 200s. ...
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• Brainfood: Wild yeast, Sorbus evolution, Taro leaf blight, Vegetable sesame, Phast phenotyping, US CWR, Risk, Citizen science, GMOs, European meadow diversity, Hedysarum diversity, Pineapple diversity

  
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  Introducing a New Breed of Wine Yeast: Interspecific Hybridisation between a Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wine Yeast and Saccharomyces mikatae . The future of wine? Breeding systems, hybridization and continuing evolution in Avon Gorge Sorbus . You had me at “Avon Gorge, Bristol, UK, is a world ...
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• Unmasking Liberalism on the Arizona Range

  
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  by Dan Daggert Some of the most important lessons Ive learned about liberalism Ive learned from an unexpected source -- nature. Some of the clearest and most instructive of those lessons have come from a U. S. Forest Service "study area" in the central Arizona high desert. In 1946, the U. S. Forest ...
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• The real reason why so many of the Fukushima Livestock were left to starve to death instead of euthanizing them

  
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  Everyone has seen the photos of the suffering Fukushima cattle.  Many reasons were given why they were allowed to suffer.  But, now there is an explanation why they were allowed to suffer.  The statement below is  from a Japanese Veterinarian from  Medical Care Division Head, Production Department, Fukushima ...
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• "Pot Pigs" - Butcher BB Ranch Is Feeding Marijuana to Pigs

  
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  In a quick conversation with BB Ranch butcher William von Schneidau recently, he said to me, “Oh, and, by the way, we are feeding our pigs marijuana now. We’re calling them pot pigs.” At first I didn’t think I heard him right. Then I thought he might be joking. But he wasn’t. The Pike Place Market ...
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• I Fell Off the Sheep, and It Was Totally Worth It

  
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  Yesterday, I boarded a bus and headed out with about two dozen other fiber enthusiasts and crafters to the Hallockville Farm and Museum , where the fourth annual Long Island Fleece and Fiber Fair was held. This was the first year that the fair organized a bus, and I was very proud to be a part of that and help out ...
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• Antimicrobial Data Collection Act

  
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  Earlier this month, three Senators submitted a bill to require the FDA to report on data about the use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock. The Antimicrobial Data Collection Act (S.895) intends “to improve the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to study the use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing ...
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• Huge scope for livestock sector to reduce world poverty–New research brief from Asia commission

  
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  Distribution (density) of poor livestock keepers based on the international US$2.00/day poverty line in 2010 (published in a research brief by J Otte and R Leslie, Animal Health and Production Commission for Asia and the Pacific [APHCA], Jan 2013). ‘. . . [A]mong largely agrarian economies, which are home to the ...
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• NM Horse Slaughter Plant Faces More Hurdles

  
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  New Mexicos Valley Meat Co. has another obstacle in its path to becoming a horse slaughterhouse. A Larkspur, Colo., group, Front Range Equine Rescue, has notified the Roswell company and two federal agencies - the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture - of its intent to sue for ...
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• Candy Colored Cow

  
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   Close up Oil on 7x5 gessoed hardboard. This is my contribution to this weeks WDE at Wet Canvas. Scatty was the gracious hostess who supplied all the great reference photos.  Just couldnt pass up the white cow! I love pushing the color all over the place on a white subject and the lighting on this cow ...
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• Candy Colored Cow

  
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   Close ups Oil on 7x5 gessoed hardboard. This is my contribution to this weeks WDE at Wet Canvas. Scatty was the gracious hostess who supplied all the great reference photos.  Just couldnt pass up the white cow! I love pushing the color all over the place on a white subject and the lighting on this ...
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• chicks, big and small

  
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  Last weekend saw our second blue marans hatch – this time twelve. Little disappointed as we set twenty four eggs – never had such a low rate – but we were breeding from a particular breeding group and eggs were limited, and we did set some eggs that were on the old side… maybe that was the reason?  The ...
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• Atmospheric C02 Levels Surpass 400ppm “Game Over” Mark: Watch How It Can Be Reversed Fast

  
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  Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide surpassed a tragic milestone this week.   Huffington Post reports : “They reached a daily average above 400 parts per million, reported NOAA, for the first time in human history.  The milestone, hit on May 9, may be symbolic, notes Climate Central, but manmade CO2 ...
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• Ag in Review for the Week of May 6, 2013

  
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  A highlight of agricultural news for this week from around the Southeast. To hear weekly reviews subscribe to our podcast: Alabama Florida Georgia
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• NYC elementary school adopts all-vegetarian menu

  
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  A city public school is one of the first in the nation to adopt an all-vegetarian menu, school officials said Tuesday. Public School 244, in the Flushing section of Queens, has been serving tofu wraps and vegetarian chili since going all-veggie earlier this year, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said during a ...
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• Water ‘hoofprint’ of farm animals differs greatly by region and livestock production system–and can be reduced

  
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  Village women wash clothes and cattle are watered at a pond in Rajasthan, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The fifth annual Water for Food Conference was held 5–8 May 2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, hosted by the University of Nebraska’s Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute and the Bill and ...
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