One old saying goes: “Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.” In general that advice to not be too greedy tends to be true. However, Grandma wasn’t thinking about the PIIGS of Europe. (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain). In this case if we are not careful, these little PII...
To get a sense of what it is and how it works, imagine that you’re driving your kids to school or daycare in the morning. Your main goal is just to get there on time, though it would be nice to get there a little early. But more than anything you want to avoid being late. Wi...
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Churchill “If you see something wrong, you can either do something or nothing. Nothing’s already been tried.”– Wonder Woman “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered” – Jim Graff “When starti...
Well, in general, the terms bulls and bears are used to describe if the market is going up (bull), or the market is going down (bear) over a period of time – usually a few months or years. Put another way, are the stock prices going up, so you’re making money with your inves...
Scientific Opinion 17 July, 2024 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was requested to perform such assessment regarding high expansion foam using nitrogen for on-farm killing of pigs and poultry. Killing of poultry and pigs using inert gases, i.e. nitrogen and argon, is an approved metho...
He scoffed. “THEY ARE JUST ANIMALS, WILSON. DESIGNED TO BE SLAUGHTERED AND EATEN.” “Well, I'm not going to. I don't care what you eat but I'll stick to things that don't talk to me, thank you.” He made a face eerily similar to one rolling their eyes. “FINE. I SU...
Kosher food is any food or drink that someone following Jewish dietary laws can have. Keeping kosher is not a style of cooking. The strict laws come from the Torah and spell out what foods you can and can't eat, how they have to be prepared, and how animals have to be slaughtered to...
For instance, in 2016, approximately 65.8 billion chickens, 1.5 billion pigs, and 302 million cattle were slaughtered globally.4 Viewed from a historical perspective (Harari 2015, p. 104f.): Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the...
Antibiotic use is being recorded in approximately 95% of pigs slaughtered in the UK, in the sector’s national electronic medicine book (Nevel, M., 2022) and has enabled the UK pig sector to demonstrate a 69% reduction in antibiotic use since 2015 and to commit to further reductions under...
Kashrut has very extensive laws on the proper slaughter of animals as well. So, while a particular animal, like a cow, may be kosher, if it is not properly slaughtered, it is not kosher. Both poultry and meat must be slaughtered under strict dietary guidelines called shechita. These rules...