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Animal Rights, Animals, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 27th, 2012,
Consuming shark fin soup is a bad idea, not only because of the decreasing number of sharks, but it can also lead to a brain damage. “A new study has found high concentrations of BMAA in shark fins — a neurotoxin linked to neurodegenerative diseases in humans including Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig disease (ALS)”, informs sunnewsnetwork.ca. Patients with these diseases, tested before they died, had very high levels of BMAA – up to 256 nanograms per milligram – in their brains. Shark fins contain between 144 and 1836 ng/mg of this neurotoxin. The threat comes, not only from eating the…
Tags: Alzheimer's, brain, fin soup, killing, neurotoxins, shark
Animal Rights, Animals, Green living, Science & Technology, Feb 22nd, 2012,
Student of architecture, Andre Ford, has proposed a new system of mass chicken production, in which, according to wired.co.uk, the birds will no longer have the main core of their brains. This means they won’t be able to suffer the atrocity of being packed in vertical yokes in which they are to grow to eventually end up on our plates. The project, named The Centre for Unconscious Farming, is a response to the increase in chicken meat consumption and the cruelty associated with it that is so prevalent on factory farms. Unconscious birds, in a manner resembling growing plants, will be connected…
Tags: brain, chicken, cruelty, farm, project
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 26th, 2010,
A recent study of crows in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific shows that the birds use tools to catch their food. From an article in the New York Times: The crow uses twigs to poke at a beetle larva until the larva becomes so agitated that it grabs onto the stick with its mandibles, at which point the crow yanks out the twig, having successfully captured its prey. For the family of birds known as corvids – which includes ravens, magpies and jays – the term ‘bird brain’ has no proper meaning. The brain…
Tags: bird, brain, clever, corvids, crow, magpies, ravens
