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...applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really more of a whimper, he tells me), livestock sales shouldn’t decline much. (At this point, he holds a can of Copenhagen my way; I wave it off, while he takes a dip.) He’s a guy who certainly deserves to get into Harvard on his various merits—a student leader in Future...
...there is no need to import one, says Nicole Paquette, legal-affairs director for the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento, Calif.: "Tigers reproduce easily, and there are plenty of backyard breeders producing cubs. They're like puppy mills." Anyone who wants a tiger can go to an alternative-livestock auction. Or if that is too much trouble, they can just surf the Web, where large-scale breeding operations and mom-and-pop outfits advertise cubs for as little as $300. "A tiger," says Paquette, "can be significantly cheaper than a purebred...
...assume that what worked for Greeks and Italians 40 years ago will work for you. After all, they typically ate a pound of fruit a day (equal to four medium apples) and little red meat, and many of them got lots of exercise tilling fields and tending livestock. "The Mediterranean diet works well in the Mediterranean," says Yale's Katz. "My concern about it in the U.S. is that people will continue to go to Burger King but just dump olive oil over their French fries...
Radio-frequency identification is, in fact, already pervasive in our lives--used to track everything from pets to prisoners to products. Cars zip through tollbooths thanks to payment systems using RFID. More than 50 million pets worldwide are tagged with RFID chips. At least 20 million livestock have RFID tags to follow them for possible disease breakouts. A museum in Rotterdam uses RFID to guard its Rembrandts and Renoirs. And for the past two years, Oscar-goers have been screened and tracked by RFID...
...Something In The Air Farmers in New Zealand protested outside the country's parliament against government plans to tax cattle's gas emissions. Politely dubbed the "flatulence tax," the levy would raise around $4.5 million for research aimed at cutting the methane output of the country's livestock...