The greatest and most moral homage we can pay to certain animals on certain occasions is to kill them.. .. ANIMAL RIGHTS The epigraph above is an example of what Michael Pollan has recently called " hunter porn, " an overblown style of writing that assumes " that the hunt represents some sort of primordial encounter between two kinds of animals, one of which is [the writer]. " 1 Men face danger...

Introduction Growth and thermal inactivation of microoganisms were extensively studied in order to get information on the microbiological impact of manufacturing process or formulation of foods. Nevertheless, there are still many unexplored points in the field of predictive microbiology: not controlled in order to be able to predict in the evolution of bacterial populations during the productio...

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a gram-positive bacillus that is found in decaying nitrogenous waste. The organism can colonize some animals, including rats, and is a cause of disease in a wide variety of animals, most commonly pigs. It is believed that soil becomes contaminated with E. rhusiopathiae via animal excrement [1]. Disease in humans nearly always occurs after occupational exposure, s...

Once the Nazi scientists convinced each other that the results of their racial "investigations" were correct, then both the ability and the need to apply moral, subjective criteria lessened. After all, when one is dealing with sub-humans the ground rules change; no need for compassion, for concern, for human suffering, when the sufferers are not human. Everyone who attempts to understand the bu...

Since the oldest known Acheulean lithic techno-typological features in Europe were reported at site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain), continuous fieldwork has been conducted there archeological deposits late Early Pleistocene age (0.99–0.78 Ma). As a result, excavations two three open-air localities have significantly expanded collection and faunal remains, allowing us to make progres...

BACKGROUND Food-borne pathogens are the leading cause of illness and death in developing countries. Changes in eating habits, mass catering, unsafe food storage conditions and poor hygiene practices are major contributing factors to food associated illnesses. In Ethiopia, the widespread habit of raw beef consumption is potential cause for food borne illnesses. The present study aimed at investi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate, measure and assess the food consumption pattern of the adult population living in Beirut, Lebanon, and to identify inadequate or excessive intake of food groups particularly linked to non-communicable diseases. DESIGN A cross-sectional food consumption survey was conducted in 2001. Dietary habits were assessed by means of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire....

The distribution of caribou at the Palangana site (XCL-00130), Alaska, is compared to two models of hunter–gatherer food sharing. Variance reduction and tolerated theft based on ethnographic observations and mathematical modeling are translated into residual archaeological faunal assemblages based on element frequencies and anatomical refitting. These models, applied to the Palangana caribou as...

Modelling a muscle key to flexing the thumb, new study suggests that powerful opposability characterises dextrous human hand evolved in some of our fossil relatives about two million years ago — time when tool use became more important. If you have learned anything evolution or what makes it special, is likely something opposable thumbs. Our thumb indeed distinct its functional abilities, but n...