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| 8/28/2008 |
Carbon tax a threat to farming viability Hororata farmer Gavin King would rather slaughter his sheep and cattle than pay an estimated $168,000 a year in carbon tax for belching and farting livestock. He said few farmers seemed to realise the full implications for their farm business of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to reduce global warming. Many farms would fall over depending on the final tax rate and it would severely hurt service industries, he said. "We could survive, but I am not going to pay carbon tax on my animals farting and burping. "I will kill all of them before I do that if it goes to that level, too right." King said he was prepared to pay carbon tax for greenhouse emissions from fuel used on the farm, but not for livestock emissions of methane and nitrous oxide. "I cannot accept a tax on animals doing a natural thing," he said. (Stuff.co.nz) | |||
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keywords: Carbon Dioxide, China, Cows, Don Nicolson, Emissions Trading Scheme, Federated Farmers, Jim Anderton, Meat & Wool New Zealand, Methane, New Zealand, Nitrous Oxide, Russia, Sheep
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| 3/22/2007 |
A reporter remembers Rome 1957: BBC Rome correspondent David Willey covered the signing of the Treaty of Rome as a Reuters trainee. Here he looks back at the Europe of half a century ago. The signing of the treaty took place in the majestic surroundings of Michelangelo's elegant Capitoline Palace situated at the top of one of Rome's seven hills. I was actually there in the huge room frescoed with scenes from ancient Roman battles, when the six frock-coated founders of the Europe of the Six appended their signatures to the Treaty. Crowded into the room were members of parliament, city authorities and, I seem to remember, a single red-hatted cardinal from the Vatican. It was a very formal and quite impressive ceremony, which had been assigned to the Reuters office junior to help him cut his reportorial teeth. There were speeches in Italian, French, German and Dutch not a word in English of course, because Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had already decided against joining the nascent European community. (BBC) | |||
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keywords: 9/11, Algeria, BBC, Belgium, David Willey, Egypt, European Economic Community, European Union, France, Germany, Harold Macmillan, Italy, Juno, Jupiter, Luxembourg, Minerva, Netherlands, Reuters, Rome, Sheep, Treaty Of Rome, United Kingdom, Vatican, World War II
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| 11/22/2004 |
Scientists debate blending species In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins. In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human. In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls. These are not outcasts from “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists. Biologists call these hybrids chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail. They are products of experiments in which human stem cells were added to developing animal fetuses. Chimeras are allowing scientists to watch, for the first time, how nascent human cells and organs mature and interact – not in the cold isolation of laboratory dishes but inside the bodies of living creatures. Some are already revealing deep secrets of human biology and pointing the way toward new medical treatments. (Washington Post) | |||
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keywords: California, Esmail Zanjani, Genetic Engineering, Henry Greely, Hg Wells, James Battey, Jeffrey Platt, Mayo Clinic, Mice, Minnesota, National Academy Of Sciences, National Institutes Of Health, Nevada, Pigs, Sheep, Stanford University, United States, University Of Nevada
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