Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
Many commercial dairies make use of a special hormone called “Recombinant bovine somatotropin” which is often abbreviated to rBST or BST. This hormone is known to increase the amount of milk production. The use of rBST is controversial and has elicited a lot of reactions from both animal rights...
A contract is a legal agreement that is binding onto the parties who have agreed to an exchange. There are many forms of contract that exist such as a quasi-contract or an implied contract. One other type of contract is a take-or-pay contract wherein a buyer pays for the goods or services rendered...
Wheat is a kind of grain and is considered one of the top three most important and abundant crops in the world. For nearly 10,000 years people have planted and harvested wheat, and made it into one of the main staples of their diet. Historians believe wheat was first grown in the Fertile Crescent,...
Eastern Livestock, one of the biggest cattle brokers in the United States, is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Agrilculture. The investigation stems from multiple cattle farmers' and banking institutions' complaints that Eastern allegedly issued $81...
These U.S. corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
The term broadcasting is a word that has a very modern application because of the modern technologies that it helped to define. But the term itself has been in existence for a long time -- centuries, in fact. The term broadcasting originally described a planting method where a farmer scatters --...
Guano is, in a nutshell, animal poop—but with one important qualifier. It is useful animal poop. It is so rich in nutrients that it can be used as fertilizer. The term was first used in Peru, where people had to make a clear distinction between the ordinary excrement from the “beneficial” ones...
In more repressed times, people were not always allowed to express themselves freely, for fear of persecution. Gossiping, criticizing the government or even talking about current events were often punishable by death. In order to communicate at will, clever rhymes were constructed and passed...
As a genre, dying earth has fallen out of favor recently, which is a shame because it's an incredibly remarkable one. It offers a wonderful opportunity to meld parts of dystopian fiction, swords and sorcery, fantasy, science fiction, space opera, and all set under a swollen red sun as the planet...
