A new and extremely important report has come out today from GRAIN, about the mistaken policy analysis and debate surrounding the current Bird Flu crisis.
While panic in the media and at government levels is focused on the threat from migratory birds and small-scale free-range poultry operations, the real reason for the development and spread of the disease has been quietly ignored.
The GRAIN report shows that emergence of bird flu follows the global poultry industry's movements - and NOT migratory bird movements. The large-scale, confined, and frankly disgusting, factory farming conditions that characterise the global poultry industry are likely to be the real cause of the mutation of bird flu into its deadly form. The widespread movements of the industry's chickens and hatching eggs, are likely to be the cause of its spread.
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With a growing number of consumers switching from red meat to poultry, the chicken and turkey industries are booming. In addition to the expanding U.S market, poultry companies are also benefiting from expanding markets around the world.
London - The earth has a fever that could boost temperatures by 8 degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples' lives, a controversial climate scientist said on Tuesday.
James Lovelock, who angered climate scientists with his Gaia theory of a living planet and then alienated environmentalists by backing nuclear power, said a traumatized earth might only be able to support less than a tenth of it's 6 billion people.
"We are not all doomed. An awful lot of people will die, but I don't see the species dying out," he told a news conference. "A hot earth couldn't support much over 500 million."
James Lovelock, who angered climate scientists with his Gaia theory of a living planet and then alienated environmentalists by backing nuclear power, said a traumatized earth might only be able to support less than a tenth of it's 6 billion people.
"We are not all doomed. An awful lot of people will die, but I don't see the species dying out," he told a news conference. "A hot earth couldn't support much over 500 million."
Analysis of ancient sediment taken from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean support the view that the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by a single rogue meteor striking Earth, and not by multiple space rock impacts, a new study finds.
"The sample we found strongly support the single impact hypothesis," said lead researcher Ken MacLeod of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
"The sample we found strongly support the single impact hypothesis," said lead researcher Ken MacLeod of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Beijing-- Egypt's young King Tutankhamun was laid to rest more than 3,300 years ago and now scientist believe they have laid to rest the popular and sensational theory his enemies bludgeoned him to death.
CT scans reveal it was a festering leg would that could have led to the boy-king's death at age 19.
CT scans reveal it was a festering leg would that could have led to the boy-king's death at age 19.
Comment: Ah, yes. The famous curse of King Tut. Did you know that it even has a link with the events of 9/11? To find out more, see the second edition of 9/11: The Ultimate Truth by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn, out soon.
Sometime next spring, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR), a little-known but sometimes-controversial participant in the University's research community, will clear its shelves and close its door, bringing an end to 27 years of exploring mind-matter interactions in a scientific context.
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Jules Violle
Jules Violle
On this day in 1841, in the French town of Langres, was born Jules Violle, celebrated French physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, and alchemist. Better known under his pen name Fulcanelli, Jules Violle wrote two important alchemical texts, The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers, as well as leaving the notes for a third volume, Finis Gloriae Mundi, a work that was withdrawn before publication.
Major Episodes of Extraterrestrial Impacts Found to Correlate with 9 Major Episodes of Volcanism
Supporting the theory that catastrophic events significantly influence major Earth processes, researchers have determined that comet and meteorite impacts on Earth occurring over the last 4 billion years have directly correlated with the activity of strong and normal mantle plumes - heated mantle rock causing volcanic eruptions (e.g. Hawaii, Iceland).
Supporting the theory that catastrophic events significantly influence major Earth processes, researchers have determined that comet and meteorite impacts on Earth occurring over the last 4 billion years have directly correlated with the activity of strong and normal mantle plumes - heated mantle rock causing volcanic eruptions (e.g. Hawaii, Iceland).
STRUCTURAL abnormalities in a baby's brainstem may lie behind around half the cases of sudden infant death syndrome.
NEW YORK - A critic of an online encyclopedia written and edited by its users has identified dozens of biographical articles that appear to contain passages lifted from other sites, prompting its administrators to delete several pending a review.
Comment: Of course, next week - or whenever - somebody else will find something else and the whole theory will be changed again.
The problem is not the science, the problem is the media that presents things is such simplistic, black or white terms. Scientists would never say something like: "Single meteorite killed the dinosaurs." And of course, in the article, this is evident, though not emphasized, as we see in this remark: So, don't think it is all figured out yet!