Will the Year of the Rabbit be good for those with the rabbit Chinese zodiac sign in 2011? What is the 2011 horoscope forecasts for the rabbit in the 2011 metal rabbit year? How will the rabbit's fortune turn out in 2011? What are the feng ...
As an agricultural people, the Buyi worship the Land. Outside every village there is usually a Temple of the Land, inside which there are usually two stones that represent the Father Land and the Mother Land. They sacrifice a chicken or a ...
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A long, long time ago, Humanity and Nature became sworn comrades and signed a non-aggression treaty. But soon, the humans who had pledged never to invade their ally realized that without Nature's offerings, they could not survive. ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has started collecting and testing wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia to determine the presence of three salmon diseases:infectious hematopoietic necrosis,infectious pancreatic necrosis ...
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The number of people of the Tibetan ancestry is placed at 4,593,330. They mainly live in Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces such as Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibet, the roof of the world, is a land of ...
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Alteris Insurance Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Argo Group International Holdings, has completed acquisition of the operating assets and business rights of Mattei Insurance Services. Alteris president Hilbert Schenck II said the ...
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The African Union (AU) is planning to establish food safety authority along with a Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), in order to strengthen trade and prevent food-borne diseases. AU's Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources ...
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Nestlé has opened a dairy facility at Samalkha in Haryana state, India, with an investment of INR6bn ($113m). Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged the company to take up a collective strategy with Animal Husbandry ...
Philippines has lifted the temporary ban on the importation of poultry and other poultry from Taiwan after global animal health authorities confirmed that the country is free of the bird flu virus. The ban has been lifted on the ...
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Canada is proposing new regulations which would make traceability mandatory for pigs,as a part of its effort to strengthen the country's livestock sector. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA),an enhanced traceability ...
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China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has ordered Hunan AVA Dairy to halt the production of infant formula products, as they were found to contain the carcinogen aflatoxin. AQSIQ ...
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Cranswick has applied for a second licence to supply British pork to the US market. Pork ribs have a higher price point in the US Last year the company secured United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)accreditation for its pork ...
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Ann Taylor and LOFT wearers, rejoice! The parent company of those iconic clothing and accessory brands, ANN INC., has banned the use of exotic-animal skins in its product lines after meeting with PETA and learning about the extreme animal ...
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ChromaDex has entered into a distribution agreement with Glanbia Nutritionals for its patented pTeroPure(pterostilbene). Under the agreement,Glanbia Nutritionals will serve as the exclusive distributor of pTeroPure to the food,beverage ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has announced that it has lifted the quarantine on the aquaculture facility in British Columbia,which was imposed after the facility was associated with the case of infectious haematopoietic ...
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