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...organization Kiva.org allows you to play banker by investing small amounts of money in someone’s start-up business on the other side of the globe. Alternatively, you can support the economy and help a family in a developing country by buying them a farm animal through Heifer International. The animal you donate will help provide food and income for the family, which is a great way to spread and recycle the wealth...
...John and Wright Mooar, the prodigious bison hunting brothers who helped lead the "Great Slaughter" in the late 1800s, are reviled for shooting so many bison on the open range. But, ironically, theirs was a more humane way of killing bison than ours. Last summer, I watched a bison heifer be led into the chute at the North American Bison Cooperative, a slaughterhouse in New Rockford, N.D. She became agitated, and she fought violently against the tight steel walls. It was painful to watch. Ahead of her, a door opened, and the heifer ran forward--into the waiting arms...
...trouble eating bison for a while after seeing the heifer die. There's a better way: the usda has developed regulations for shooting bison in the field. When shot from a distance, the animals don't know what hit them--bison famously don't even run when their herdmates start falling from gunshot. Under the regulations, an inspector must attend the kill and the animal must be transported to a usda butchering facility within the day. Your bison burger would cost more if it came from an animal killed this way. But it would be a small price...
...costume. She was dressed as Pippi Longstocking with long striped socks and pigtails that defied gravity with help from a hidden wire. “It’s certainly getting a lot of attention,” says Hinman. As the party raged on, Jewish rock band Red Heifer made the walls of Beren Hall throb with deafening bass as the Purimpalooza attendees hit the dance floor. The band puts its own kosher spin on rock-and-roll classics, and normally caters to the Jewish party-animal crowd with songs like “I Can?...
...HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL 800-422-0474 www.heifer.org Give a cow, a goat or a pig, and help a family earn a living. Each recipient agrees to pass on the gift by giving an offspring of the animal to another deserving family...