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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhx3TL4v--c The year of the horse may be round the corner but it is a video of a cow and a calf being ferried on the back of a lorry in Singapore that has caught the attention of netizens. In a video posted on Jan 19 by Facebook user Eunice Lim, the animals were seen transported on a lorry with an open back along an expressway in Singapore. Both the cow and calf did not seem to be secured onto the vehicle. The video has been shared close to 900 times. Viewers who posted comments about the video were concerned if this was legal and questioned what would happen if the animals leapt off the moving vehicle. Others drew parallels to a scene from the movie The Hangover Part III, where one of the movie characters transported a giraffe in the backseat of his convertible. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore said while there are no specific regulations governing the transport of cattle, animals should be transported safely and comfortably. "Usually the cattle is secured by a short tether to the vehicle and accompanied by a handler," an AVA spokesman said. The AVA added that it will speak with the farm about this incident and "advise them accordingly". Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/cow-spotted-back-lorry-animals-should-be-secured-accompanied-handler-a

Before you order a 1 kg beef steak next time, think twice. You could be polluting the environment more than driving to the steakhouse. The Dutch and Austrian scientists have used science to access the impact of beef consumption on the environment and have come up with some quantifiable figures. For instance, in Brazil, an average 335 kg of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere for every kg of beef produced. To put things into perspective, that is equal to driving an Audi A7 3.0 TDI, which is giving out CO2 at a rate of 152g/km, for 2203km! On the other hand, eating beef produced in the Netherlands is less sinful. It equates to 22kg of CO2 produced for every kg of meat. The method used by the scientists is called

[extract] I was instantly amused and attracted to this bit of news which I read over the net. It seems an associate professor (or in my opinion, a slightly mad scientist as who would have thought up such a thing) from the University of Alberta over in Canada has found a way to use parts of a cow (or anything bovine) to create plastic which would then become parts of a car