After two years of caring for meat chickens and falling in love with the birds only for them to be slaughtered, I decided to buy my own chickens. At 11 years old, I started my first of many entrepreneurial ventures to save money for my own flock of layer breeds. Pretty soon, I proudl...
Some of these qualities depend on preparation; others depend on how the cow was raised and when it was slaughtered. Typically to make a steak, the meat is butchered in cross-section -- the cut is perpendicular to the muscle fibers, or grain [source: Oklahoma State University]. The meat ...
Millions of cows are bred, raised and slaughtered each year so that humans can eat meat, wear leather products, and buy leather furniture. We can change this. 4. Stop using plastic bottles, or at least reuse them. If you want to take a bottle of water with you, buy a permanent ...
If seeing Mount Fuji is high on your wishlist, you’ll want to take a trip out to Hakone. I spent the night there in order to see as much as possible, but you could also do it as a day trip from Tokyo (there are day trip tours) if you’re short on time. Check availability fo...
In the wild, the cereal grain is distributed by the wind, and when conditions are right, the germ (embryo) begins the process of growth using the endosperm for energy. It may come as a surprise, but plants are not benign, altruistic organisms just waiting to send their next generation of...
enough to help alleviate the suffering they’re actively supporting. Sometimes these feelings aren’t triggered by any specific events or circumstances. Just the awareness that so many animals are being slaughtered each day and sold for their bodies can bring me down when I put my attention on ...
While a boar, a deer, a pig, or a cow may be slaughtered and cooked for meat consumption (at least in lay society), and a dog may be used to guard a property, mosquitoes and flies serve no useful purpose to human beings. Therefore, while the value of the first category of animals...
Nonetheless, in practice, the meat from females usually comes from dairy cows or cull cows slaughtered at a later age, which usually results in a darker color [7]. 3.1.3. Animal Age and Maturity In general, increasing age and maturity is correlated with a decrease in eating quality. With...
Agriculture-oriented satellite constellations are beginning to provide a critical perspective on the size and condition of nearly everything we grow to eat, nearly every where in the world. With Ukraine still in the news we are bringing back a previous conversation with Vera Petryk who spoke to...
If seeing Mount Fuji is high on your wishlist, you’ll want to take a trip out to Hakone. I spent the night there in order to see as much as possible, but you could also do it as a day trip from Tokyo (there are day trip tours) if you’re short on time. Check availability fo...