| Topic: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 25/06/08 / Views : 2115 / Replies : 47 | |
|  | Happy new year everybody, just following on from Badgermans 'in the news 2007' now it's 2008 lol.
So who has some interesting news to start 2008 with? |
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| Reply #1: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 10/01/08 | |
| | Me!
Government to ban battery egg farming by 2012.
Fabulous, long overdue news, but I'm disappointed at the word "egg". Why can't they ban it for meat too? In my (humble) view, the intensive farming for chicken meat is worse in many ways. |
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| Reply #2: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 10/01/08 | |
| | Quite agree Demeter, but every step in the right direction is one further!
Glad to hear UK appears to be resisting pressure. I've read that Germany is due to adopt the legislation voluntarily in 09, but that they're waivering. Worry seems to be that if germany do a U-turn it will be harder for others to stick to their guns.
www.getactive.peta.org/campaign/batterycagesuk |
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| Reply #3: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 11/01/08 | |
| | I was delighted to hear this as the main item on the 6pm news the other day. It was amazing that this government resisted calls by the farming lobby for more time.
Yes, chickens reared for meat have less room and less legal protection but let's be grateful for small mercies and as hannah said, it's one step at a time. It should be illegal to kill days old male chicks though, many thrown alive into mincers....I will never forget seeing that on film. This happens to millions every year, the public doesn't seem to know or care. |
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| Reply #4: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 11/01/08 | |
| | | I agree that it is a step in the right direction. Has anyone been watching that 'chicken run' documentary? Hugh whats-his-name and Jamie Oliver trying to convince the chicken eating public that Free Rang is better for the chickens and tastier. It was mentioned on there about the male chicks going into the mincer alive. I thought the programme was quite good, it showed how hard it is to get the intensive breading producers to allow the public to see what really goes on. One man did offer to advise Hugh on the legal requirements for intensively farmed chickens but he was threatened by the others, being told that he'd never work with chickens again, so they are obviously very worried about the public knowing the truth. I did object however to the assumption that people have to eat chickens. I don't recall anyone mentioning that there is the option of simply not eating meat. |
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| Reply #5: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 11/01/08 | |
| | | Anyone watching Jamie's Fowl Dinners? A must for all egg-eaters. |
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| Reply #6: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 13/01/08 | |
| | Yahoo: SCIENCE NEWS HAEDLINES
Scientists breed fluorescent green pigs
A fluorescent green pig in China has given birth to two piglets who have inherited their mum's genes.
(Advertisement)
The mother sow is one of three fluorescent green pigs successfully bred by a university research team in December 2006.
The team from Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, had injected fluorescent green protein into pig embryos.
The mother produced 11 piglets, but so far only two of them have been found to inherit the fluorescent feature.
The mouths, trotters and tongues of the two piglets glow green under ultraviolet light, just like their mum.
Pig breeder Zhao Qinghua said: "We are taking special care of these piglet, and what they eat and drink is different from other pigs."
It is the latest development in genetic science for the researchers after they started the project in 2005.
They injected genetic material from jellyfish into the womb of a sow which later gave birth to three pigs, including the now glowing mother sow.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080113/twl-scientists-breed-fluorescent-green-p-41f21e0_1.html |
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| Reply #7: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 13/01/08 | |
| | | ps I don't know what that Advertisement is doing there! |
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| Reply #8: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 17/01/08 | |
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| Reply #9: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 22/01/08 | |
| | BREAKING NEWS
HOLLYWOOD ACTOR HEATH LEDGER IS DEAD
The Hollywood actor died on Manhatten home today (22 Jan 2008). Not yet known how he died but it is in a suspected over-dose.
More here:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1301898,00.html
R.I.P Heath :(
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| Reply #10: Re: In the news 2008 |
| Posted : 01/02/08 | |
| | Just saw this on Newsround (yep, I'm sad) and got this off their website so if it sounds patronising you know why!
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Eighty-eight monkeys have been saved from a science lab in the biggest-ever rescue of its kind in the world.
The Capuchin monkeys were kept in cramped cages on their own, without sunlight or fresh air in Chile.
But they've now set up home in Monkey World in Dorset in the south of England after a huge rescue operation was launched to save the furry creatures.
The lab contacted the sanctuary to take the monkeys after pressure from animal rights groups to release them.
Some of the animals had been kept locked away for up to 20 years in the South American country, only being allowed out to take part in experiments.
Now they're being looked after at Monkey World, where they're enjoying their first taste of freedom.
Capuchin monkeys are usually very friendly creatures and live in groups of around 35 in the wild in Central and South America.
Fresh air
Jez Hermer, from the rescue centre, said they're getting the monkeys used to spending time with each other before they're allowed outside.
"Life will be massively improved for them now," he said.
"In a couple of weeks, they're going to be outside in the fresh air, they'll see the sky for the first time and they'll be climbing in real trees - fantastic!" |
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