Composting Livestock Mortalities
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By Glanville, T D; Richard, T L; Harmon, J D; Reynolds, D L; Et al  Performance, composting methods, environmental impacts and biosecurity of the process are evaluated for emergency disposal of cattle by research team at Iowa State University.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last...
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NEW YORK  - Infants who are regularly exposed to farm animals appear to be less likely than others to develop inflammatory bowel disease in childhood, according to the findings of a German study published in the journal Pediatrics.
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By Ryan Schuster, The Bakersfield Californian  Sep. 18--Plenty of dust has been kicked up at the Kern County Fair's  livestock division in recent years -- and not all of it has come from the  animals.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100 - almost half of the total worldwide fatalities.
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Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people &#151; a Mennonite farmer who climbed into the pit to unclog a pipe, and then, in frantic rescue attempts that failed, his wife, two young daughters and a farmhand.
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The rate at which livestock breeds are disappearing is "alarming," a senior official at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday, warning that precious genes could be lost forever.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Four people, dozens of dogs and cats, 11 porpoises and a horse have died from a rare tropical fungus since it was detected on Vancouver Island in 1999, a study has concluded.
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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 24--DURHAM -- The fire at the Durham Yard Waste Compost Facility -- the cause of respiratory problems among frustrated neighbors as it burned for 13 days -- was extinguished Saturday.
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Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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Fish could give you cancer, snails meningitis and baby milk may kill your children -- barely a day goes by without some new food horror story in China. This is helping drive sales in another, though still tiny, food sector in China -- organic produce.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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An Indonesian woman who bought a live chicken from a market died from bird flu on Christmas Day, the Health Ministry bird flu centre said on Wednesday, taking the total number of deaths from the disease in Indonesia to 94.
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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BREMEN, Germany, Sep 21 (IPS) - The Panamanian flagged ship Probo Koala unloaded  more than 550 tonnes of toxic waste at Abidjan port in C- te  d'Ivoire a month back. Emissions from that toxic waste have  killed seven people and poisoned thousands.