Tag: Purdue University

  • Torturing Animals with GMO Feed

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    Katherine Paul of The Organic Consumers Association asks, “what happens when animals are confined in cramped, filthy environments and force-fed monoculture diets of genetically modified corn and soy?” A lot can happen. Calves are born too weak to walk, with enlarged joints and limb deformities. Piglets experience rapidly deteriorating health, a “failure to thrive” so…

  • Enlighten Me

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    From a section called The Legends Behind the Folklore of Wine in wine-searcher, this extract from “The Curious World of Wine” by Richard Vine (no kidding), emeritus professor of enology at Purdue University enlightens us on how vinous folklore still makes up some of our every day clichés… To Your Health! Surviving wisdom indicates that a toast…

  • What causes the tides?

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    By: Marcus Goodkind Gravity and inertia are the major forces responsible for creating tides. The moon’s gravity and proximity to the earth pulls water toward it. The moon’s gravity causes a “bulge” in the oceans facing it. Inertia (a body in motion tends to remain in motion), acts to counterbalance the moon’s effect and causes…