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...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...
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...
...Jewish Theatre. Created by Chagall to decorate that city's 90-seat State Jewish Chamber Theater, it was also a manifesto of his deliberately impure aesthetic, in which broad bands of color derived plainly from Suprematism are the backdrop--but only the backdrop--for resolutely nonabstract acrobats and livestock. In the lower right-hand corner, just above Chagall's signature, a man urinates directly into the eye of a pig. A parting shot at the Gentile Malevich? Some scholars think...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Administration has been vigilant in its efforts to combat hoof-and-mouth disease, the deadly virus capable of devastating a nation's agricultural livestock. Too bad he hasn't done more to eradicate foot-in-mouth disease, a lesser-known affliction that compels Japanese politicians to make ludicrous public statements. In the past month alone, a slew of lawmakers has been stricken in the latest epidemic...