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Last week, Sir Paul McCartney urged us, amid a blaze of publicity, to curb our carnivorous lifestyles and go meat-free on Mondays, in order to reduce the damage that modern agriculture does to the planet. But for all the recent talk about the pros and...
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Protecting farmlands from animals using scary objects is a thing of the past, and inventors are using the...
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A worker uses envelopes to separate rice collected on a test field sewn with different rice varieties in the outskirts of Kunming, capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan province, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. In a mountainous place like Yunnan, and in many...
