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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hollywood stars are squealing mad over Walmart's treatment of pigs after an undercover investigation exposed rampant cruelty to animals at a factory farm supplying pork to the retail giant. In a letter fired off today to Walmart's CEO Mike Duke, at the behest of the animal protection organization Mercy For Animals, Ryan Gosling, Kristen Bell, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel, Tom Morello, Kim Basinger, David Boreanaz, Ed...
www.conferenceboard.ca OTTAWA, Aug. 23, 2012 /CNW/ - Canada's supply-managed dairy system has largely met its primary policy objectives of reducing the industry's chronic milk surpluses and providing both increased and stable returns to farmers. But addressing these long-standing problems has come at a cost -- reducing the industry's overall economic competitiveness and performance and complicating Canada's international trade relationships, according to a Conference Board of...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Are test tube burgers coming to a grocery store near you? Sounds like science fiction, and until recently, it actually was. Now, the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever. We aren't talking about the whole cow, however. That would be an "udderly" different story. Synthetic or test-tube meat involves taking a small amount of cells from a living animal and growing it into lumps of...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Compassion in World Farming are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take immediate action following reports that 400 pregnant cattle among a total of 3,900 cattle being transported by ship from the United States to Russia have died en route. The groups are urging USDA to thoroughly investigate the incident and take all necessary steps to prevent a similar occurrence in the...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a major expansion of U.S. government investment in Malawi on Sunday, during a visit to the Lumbadzi Milk Bulking Group (MBG). Lumbadzi MBG is one of 23 dairy producer groups that Land O'Lakes International Development assisted throughout the course of its recently completed Malawi Dairy Development Alliance (MDDA), a 5-year public-private alliance made possible by the American People...
ALBANY, New York, August 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Animal Feed and Feed Additives Market - Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis, and Forecast, 2011 - 2018 [http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/animal-feed-and-feed-additives-market.html ]", global animal feed additives market was worth USD 13.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD...
Pro Auction is to auction off contents of the Scottish Borders Abattoir plant, being the major abattoir in the region it is no longer to be used for slaughtering cattle and sheep and the processing equipment will go under the hammer. Edinburgh, Scotland (PRWEB) August 04, 2012 Pro Auction is pleased to announce a live auction sale to be held at Scottish Borders Abattoir Limited. Winston Road, Galashiels, Selkirkshire TD1 2DA on the 12th September 2012 commencing at 10.30am. The EEC...
PINE BROOK, N.J., Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. (Elusys), a biopharmaceutical company developing countermeasures for biodefense, announced today that it has been awarded additional funding from the U.S. Government, valued at $50.2 million, for the advanced development of ETI-204 (Anthim), an investigational agent for the treatment of anthrax infection following a biowarfare attack. Anthrax is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by the bacterium...
-- http://www.altiramisu.com -- WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Not only has Chef-Owner Luigi Diotaiuti burnished the Al Tiramisu brand as the most authentic Italian restaurant in Washington, DC, but he also traveled to Italy to help his brother Antonio uphold the ancient Italian tradition of Transumanza, which was a way of life in Italy for some 3000 years that's in danger of dying. Transumanza means "crossing the land." It's...
DURHAM, N.C., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Animal Diagnostics (AAD), a developer of technologies for the rapid diagnosis of farm animal diseases, has added two new employees to lead the company's sales and marketing efforts. Dr. Francis Adriaens is named Vice President of Marketing and International Sales, and Gary Winter is named Vice President of North America Sales. "Francis and Gary have experience that makes them ideally suited for their roles as AAD moves toward...
Latest Livestock Reference Libraries
Fodder is a term used in reference to the feed cut, sometimes prepared, and brought to domesticated farm animals such as cows, goats and pigs. Some fodder is prepared using oils and mixed rations that are mixed in with several different types of sprouted grain and legumes such as alfalfa, clover, corn, and several different types of grass. In the countries that allow it, fodder can also consist of animal origins such as ruminant meat and bone meal, typically found in cattle feed. The USDA,...
Overgrazing occurs when plants are unprotected to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without enough recovery periods. It can be a result of either livestock in poorly managed agricultural applications, or by overpopulations of native or non-native wild animals. Overgrazing reduces the usefulness, biodiversity, and productivity of the land and is one cause of desertification and erosion. It’s also considered to be a cause of the spread of invasive species of non-native...
Llama, Lama glama The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated camelid from South America. It is often used as a pack animal or for meat by Andean cultures. Its hair is used to make clothing and handicrafts. The course outer hair is typically used to make lead ropes, rugs, and wall hangings, and the fibers can come in many colors ranging from black to reddish brown to white. Because of transportation and trade of this species, there are now more than 158,000 llamas and 100,000 alpacas in...
The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius), also known as the Arabian camel, is a completely domesticated species that appears on the IUCN Red List with a conservation status of “Domesticated”. It is thought that when wild, its native range was mainly in the Arabian Peninsula. It can now be found in South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The only dromedary camels that display wild behaviors are the population of feral camels in Australia, which were introduced in 1840. It prefers a...
The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also called the Rocky Mountain goat is only found in North America. Even though it is a goat in name, it is not in the Capra genus of true goats. It belongs to the subfamily Caprinae, which holds goat-antelopes which holds thirty-two other species. It is in the family Bovidae that holds other creatures such as cattle, antelopes, and gazelle. It is the only species in the Oreamnos genus. The mountain goat is listed as of “least concern” by the IUCN....
