Canada's governor-general Michaelle Jean has sparked anger from animal rights groups by gutting a seal carcass and eating a piece of its heart. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Demonstrating Support for Seal Harvest
Food & Farming
A Nonsense Pipeline
The Swedes Choose Cattle for Stockholm’s Wetlands
SWAMP, wetland, marsh, marshland, everglade - there are a variety of different names for wet areas covered in native vegetation and the specific mix of reeds, grasses, shrubs and trees will of course depend on how the areas is managed, including … [Read more...] about The Swedes Choose Cattle for Stockholm’s Wetlands
Who’s Afraid of Genetically Modified Bread?
CANADIAN, US and Australian wheat organisations recently released a joint statement asking for the development and commercialization of higher yielding varieties through biotechnology – through genetic modification. Clearly wheat farmers are … [Read more...] about Who’s Afraid of Genetically Modified Bread?
How to Kill a Fox, to Save a Mouse and a Pademelon
A NEW paper by Mike Letnic from the University of Sydney adds more weight to the argument that the best way to save Australia’s small native rodents, in particular the dusky hopping mouse, is to protect the dingo because it also preys on foxes and … [Read more...] about How to Kill a Fox, to Save a Mouse and a Pademelon
It May Get Even Drier Along the Murray
THERE has been no general decline in rainfall in Australia due to global warming. But it is possible that the Murray Darling Basin, once regarded as the food bowl of Australia, will get even drier. When farmers say that the region has never … [Read more...] about It May Get Even Drier Along the Murray
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
