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...dramatic decline in pork production brought on by an outbreak of blue-ear disease earlier this year. And for now, Mueller doesn't have to worry about competition from back home. Imports of beef from America - a top global supplier - have been banned in China since mad cow disease appeared in Washington State...
...their first feedlot outside Hohhot, Inner Mongolia's capital, partly because of the local government's aggressive pro-investment policies. Among other things, officials helped the company find land and provided introductions to potential business partners. Ultimately, though, it came down to the fact that Hohhot is a cow town. Two of China's biggest dairies, Mengniu and Yili, have headquarters in the area, and buy milk from thousands of farmers who raise dairy cows in their front yards. There are more than a million cows around Hohhot; the bustling city is plastered with garish advertisements for yogurt...
CONTEXT Scientists in the U.S. and China have created cybrids--also known as cytoplasmic hybrids--with cow and rabbit eggs for use in stem-cell research. Cybrid proponents argue that there is virtually no difference between utilizing animal and human eggs in this field of study...
...Fonda notes, "Christian Bale's character comes home from the war, inflicted with a disability beyond the loss of a limb, a deep psychological wound. It's safe to say the audience isn't watching this movie, with its mindless gunplay and out-of-control gangs, and going, 'Holy cow, that's Baghdad!' But those themes are there. A western can talk about today in the past tense...
Joseph Scalzo, chief executive of Dean Foods' WhiteWave, which manages the Horizon Organic brand, invited Kastel to the company's Idaho farm in June 2006. Scalzo outlined the company's plans to spend at least $10 million expanding the farm's pasture, enabling cows to graze at the same time. But by that visit, Cornucopia had already embarked on its report card project - and had mailed Horizon and other farms its survey with 19 questions, ranging from how many cows were on a farm to whether they were treated with antibiotics. Scalzo says Horizon declined to participate in the survey...