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Drinking Farm Milk Reduces Childhood Asthma And Allergies, But Raw Consumption Remains Unsafe, Study Finds (May 11, 2007) -- Kids who drink farm milk are less likely to have asthma or allergies, regardless of whether they live in urban or rural areas. But the health risks of giving unboiled farm milk to children remain a ... > full story

Mad Cow Disease Found In Canadian Cow (May 3, 2007) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also knowns as mad cow disease, in a mature dairy cow from British ... > full story

Cincinnati Zoo's Rhino Makes History With An Unprecedented Third Calf (May 3, 2007) -- Emi, the Cincinnati Zoo's world-famous critically endangered Sumatran rhino has done it again! On Sunday evening, April 29, Emi became the first Sumatran rhino in history to produce three calves in ... > full story

Milk Beats Soy For Post-weighlifting Muscle Gain (April 11, 2007) -- A new study has found that milk protein is significantly better than soy at building muscle mass. The findings would suggest that if men consume only skim milk (two cups) after each of their ... > full story

Monitoring Poisons In The Environment -- A Woolly Matter (April 6, 2007) -- Heavy metals are present in variable amounts in the natural environment in the UK. Dr. Jennifer Sneddon from Liverpool John Moores University will present the results of a pilot study assessing the ... > full story

Dairy, Fruits And Veggies May Help Smokers Quit (April 5, 2007) -- Milk does the body good -- and may help smokers break the habit, say researchers at Duke University Medical ... > full story

A High Beef Diet During Pregnancy Linked To Lower Sperm Counts In Sons (March 28, 2007) -- A mother's high beef consumption while pregnant was associated with lower sperm counts in her son, according to a study led by researchers at the University of ... > full story

The Penalty Of Having A Sister: Why Sibling Sex Matters For Male Antelopes (March 19, 2007) -- Having a twin sister could put male saiga antelopes at a reproductive disadvantage, says new research. The study shows that male twins with a sister are born lighter than those with a brother, making ... > full story

Remote Sheep Population Resists Genetic Drift (March 15, 2007) -- A wild sheep population on a remote Indian Ocean island is creating a buzz among genetics ... > full story

Food Supplement Could Prevent Development Of Diabetes And Atherosclerosis (March 12, 2007) -- The health benefits of cutting down on dietary saturated fatty acids and including higher levels of unsaturated fatty acids are well documented. Nutritional research is focusing on the effects of ... > full story

Manual Dishwashing Study Digs Up Dirt On Dish Cleanliness (March 8, 2007) -- New research answers an infectious question about eating at restaurants: How clean are manually washed dishes? They found that even when they washed dishes in cooler-than-recommended water, numbers ... > full story

Genome Sequencing Reveals Key To Viable Ethanol Production (March 5, 2007) -- As the national push for alternative energy sources heats up, researchers at the University of Rochester have for the first time identified how genes responsible for biomass breakdown are turned on ... > full story

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Dairy cattle -- Dairy cattle, generally of the species Bos taurus, are domesticated animals bred to produce large quantities of milk. Dairy cattle may be found in herds on farms where dairy farmers own, manage, care ... > full article

Slaughterhouse -- A slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where farm animals are killed and processed into meat products. Slaughtering animals on a large scale poses significant logistical problems ... > full article

Livestock -- Livestock are domesticated animals intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food or fibre, or for their labour. Livestock include pigs, cattle, goats, deer, sheep, yaks ... > full article

Animal husbandry -- Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock. As such, it is a vital skill for farmers and, in some countries in many ... > full article

Cattle -- Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat (called beef and veal), dairy ... > full article

Domestic goat -- The domestic goat is a domesticated subspecies of the Wild Goat. Domestic goats are one of the oldest domesticated species. For thousands of years, they have been utilized for their milk, meat, hair, ... > full article

Hereford (cattle) -- Hereford cattle are a widely-used breed in temperate areas, mainly for beef production. Originally from Herefordshire, England, they are the most common breed of beef cattle in the temperate parts of ... > full article

Pig -- Pigs are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. They have been domesticated and raised as livestock by some peoples for meat (called pork) as ... > full article

Ranching -- Ranching is the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common ... > full article

Artificial insemination -- Artificial insemination (AI) is when sperm is placed into a female's ovarian follicle (intrafollicular), uterus (intrauterine), cervix (intracervical), or fallopian tubes (intratubal) using ... > full article

Herding dog -- A herding dog or pastoral breed is a dog that either has been trained in herding or that is a member of a breed developed for herding. Dogs can herd other animals in a variety of ways. Some breeds, ... > full article

Domestic sheep -- The domestic sheep (Ovis aries), the most common species of the sheep genus (Ovis), is a woolly ruminant quadruped which probably descends from the wild mouflon of south-central and south-west Asia. ... > full article

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle. BSE has attracted wide attention because it seems that people can contract ... > full article

Prion -- A prion (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) is a unique type of infectious agent, as it is made only of protein. It is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of ... > full article

Mammary gland -- Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and are the characteristic of ... > full article

Feral -- A feral animal or plant is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state. Rarely will the environment have evolved to accommodate the feral organism into ... > full article

Vegetarianism -- Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat. Vegetarians may consume dairy and egg products; a stricter form is veganism, which excludes dairy, eggs, and any foods that contain these or other ... > full article

Chinese food therapy -- Chinese food therapy is a practice of healing using natural foods instead of medications. Chinese food therapy is a modality of traditional Chinese medicine, also known as Chinese Nutrition therapy. ... > full article

Dolly the Sheep -- Dolly (July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived ... > full article

Digestion -- Digestion is the process whereby a biological entity processes a substance, in order to chemically convert the substance into nutrients. Digestion occurs at the multicellular, cellular, and ... > full article