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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Culture, Farm & Ranch, Mammals, Veterinary Medicine on 05 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Cow Escapes from Slaughterhouse, Moves Back to Farm

Cow Escapes from Slaughterhouse, Moves Back to Farm
photo credit: law_keven [...] On Thursday, the heifer — who evidently escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse on Wednesday before being corralled by police officers — was loaded on a trailer at a Brooklyn animal shelter and transported to her new home: a 60-acre organic farm in Calverton, in Suffolk...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Business, Creepy Crawlies, Farm & Ranch, Wildlife on 03 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp

Olive Groves May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp
photo credit: Opo Terser Olives basking in sunny California groves might find that their new best friend is a small brown wasp. Known to scientists as Psyttalia cf. concolor, the little wasp can help foil the olive fruit fly, a powerful natural enemy of olives. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Evolution, Farm & Ranch, Food, Horses, Mammals, Science & Tech on 03 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Domestic Horses: Harnessed and Milked

Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Domestic Horses: Harnessed and Milked
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The findings could point to the very beginnings of horse domestication and the origins of the horse breeds we know...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Farm & Ranch, Food, Science & Tech on 02 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Food Poisoning Outbreaks Linked to Animal Factory Farms

Food Poisoning Outbreaks Linked to Animal Factory Farms
At least one expert believes that the massive peanut salmonella outbreak linked to the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), likely has animal feces from factory farming at its core. According to Neil Barnard—a medical doctor, nutrition researcher, and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Farm & Ranch, Mammals, Sport on 01 23rd, 2009 | 12 Comments

Cow attacks Boulder cyclist

A woman in Boulder was the victim of a very unusual run-in with a cow on Monday afternoon. Park rangers say she was riding her bike on the South Boulder Creek Trail when she stopped to let a cow in her path pass by. Instead, the animal charged at her, knocking her down, and stepped on her legs. "You...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Farm & Ranch on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Humans Are Reason For Why Domestic Animals Have Such Strange And Varied Coat Colors

You notice it in your everyday life, the bewildering diversity in coat colour among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals. This stark contrasts with the uniformity of colour within wild animals. A new study on pigs reveals that the prime explanation for this phenomenon is that humans have actively...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals & Law, Farm & Ranch, Food, Science & Tech on 01 16th, 2009 | No Comments

FDA Issues Final Regulations for Genetically Engineered Animals

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued its final regulations governing the approval of genetically engineered animals. The rules do not require consumer labeling for foods from these animals. Genetic engineering involves using recombinant DNA (rDNA) to introduce new characteristics...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Farm & Ranch on 12 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Chickens earn their keep in Chicago as some city dwellers raise them for eggs or as pets

Just past a busy intersection in this neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, a flock of hens softly cluck about the yard, seemingly oblivious to the stares of a nearby alley cat. They are “like pets with eggs,” said Donna Knezek, who along with her partner, Liz Sharp, keeps five hens in a chicken...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Farm & Ranch, Horses, Mammals on 12 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Dashing through the snow: Town unites to rescue trapped horses

Here's a heartwarming holiday tale for all you horse lovers: It was just a week before Christmas when two starving horses were discovered in the rugged mountains of the B.C. Interior - hip bones protruding, backs blanketed in ice, weakened bodies teetering between life and death. Logan Jeck, 21, came...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Farm & Ranch, Mammals, Science & Tech on 11 28th, 2008 | No Comments

French Court Fines Power Grid for Harming Animals

I'm made suspicious by the court prosecutor's statement, “Even if this wasn’t proved scientifically and with certainty, the judge considered there was no other possibility."  No proof necessary?  Hmmm... Well, is there other proof that high-voltage lines make people and animals ill? A French court...
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