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Beavertown to live-stream farm animals in 'alternative Glastonbury' push
2020-06-22 16:39:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Beavertown, the London brewer part-owned by Heineken, is to live-stream scenes from an English farm in a marketing campaign that aims to replace this Summer's cancelled UK festival and events season.
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Feeding Antibiotics to Farm Animals May Worsen Climate Change
2016-05-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: There may be another reason to discourage farmers from feeding antibiotics to livestock: global warming. A study published this week finds that when cattle were fed a common antibiotic, their manure produced even more methane than normal -- a potent global warming gas. The antibiotics do this by killing off bacteria that compete with methane-producing microbes, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of antibiotics...
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COP21 Forgot Farm Animals
2015-12-12 03:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Dame Jane Goodall travels the globe 300+ days each year with a cow a small black and white stuffed toy. The British scientist and UN Messenger of Peace is also an animal activist. Goodall describes Cows life with a twinkle in her eye. Cow works hard. She is a spokesperson for abused farm animals. Cow also helps Goodall explain to the world the relationship between methane gas (CH4) and global warming. During the 2015 United Nations climate change talks, COP21, Dame Goodall and Azzedine...
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Weekly Overview: Disease Control in Farm Animals is Cheaper Than a Pandemic
2014-12-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Among the lessons to be learned from the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 in Asia and Europe, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is recommending a strengthening of animal disease surveillance worldwide. Russia has applied trade sanctions on Belarus, blaming the country for poor control of African swine fever, while the Canadians attribute their success against porcine epidemic diarrhoea so far to high farm biosecurity and pig movement tracking.
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Scientists race to develop farm animals to survive climate change
2014-05-04 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When a team of researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens, they weren't looking for plump thighs or delicious eggs. They were seeking out birds that could survive a hotter planet. The researchers were in the vanguard of food scientists, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming. Some climate-change activists dismiss...
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