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Post by clone on Jan 5, 2011 11:15:21 GMT -8
GM pigs: Green ham with your eggs? 4 January 2011 Last updated at 18:03 ET The project here is called Enviropig. The animals inside the clean, warm barns look like normal pigs and behave like normal pigs, but they are living, breathing wonders of modern science. Each one contains genes from mice and E.coli bacteria, which have been inserted into their DNA with absolute precision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12113859
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Post by clone on Jan 5, 2011 11:22:51 GMT -8
Oceans being killed off to feed livestock, farmed fish A startling conclusion emerges from a study released today: More than one-third of all the fish caught in the world's oceans are going into food for livestock and farmed fish... To quote the press release by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science: Forage fish account for a staggering 37 percent (31.5 million tonnes) of all fish taken from the world's oceans each year, and 90 percent of that catch is processed into fishmeal and fish oil. In 2002, 46 percent of fishmeal and fish oil was used as feed for aquaculture (fish-farming), 24 percent for pig feed, and 22 percent for poultry feed. Pigs and poultry around the world consume more than double the seafood eaten by Japanese consumers and six times the amount consumed by the U.S. market. blog.seattlepi.com/environment/archives/149638.aspFish-eating pigs: Forage Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets www2.fisheries.com/files/ForageFishFromEcosystemsToMarkets.pdf
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Post by doh on May 8, 2011 16:39:33 GMT -8
Um, other methane issues, besides these silly pigfishbeetles. The sites were chosen along the same stretch of highway studied by permafrost expert Roger Brown in 1964. Permafrost has since disappeared at half the sites where it was found in Brown’s survey. Nine of the 10 locations monitored by Lewkowicz and his students have a thin layer of permafrost — less than 10 metres thick — and are therefore very sensitive to climate change. “It could be that the permafrost at these sites will disappear even in my lifetime,” says Lewkowicz. www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/apr11/insidestory.asp
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Post by P on Apr 14, 2012 5:40:55 GMT -8
Why a genetically modified pig is a waste of money April 14, 2012 3:06 AM Robert Wager of Vancouver Island University says I need to "explain how creating a pig that produces far less phosphorus in its feces" was a waste of public funds. I am happy to. There is already a simple technology, a hog feed supplement, that does exactly what the genetically modified (GM) pig called "Enviropig" promised to do, minus the controversy that threatened the domestic and international markets for Canadian pork. Manitoba hog producers already use the feed supplement (phytase) to reduce the phosphorus content of pig feces, with manure management practices, to meet new pollution regulations. more: www.vancouversun.com/technology/genetically+modified+waste+money/6459844/story.html
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